simplify: The men of Beth–el and Ai, two hundred twenty and three.

The men of Beth-el and Ai, two hundred and twenty-three.


rate difficulty: and for a sacrifice of the peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs, sons of a year; this <FI>is<Fi> the offering of Eliab son of Helon.

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simplify: For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

For these are the days of punishment, in which all the things in the Writings will be put into effect.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to renew the house of Jehovah.


simplify: And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:

And when the Pharisees put questions to him about when the kingdom of God would come, he gave them an answer and said, The kingdom of God will not come through observation:


rate difficulty: Because with falsehood ye have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and have strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, to save his life:

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rate difficulty: My brethren, if any one among you err from the truth, and one bring him back,

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simplify: But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.

But Jesus called the ten to him, and said: “Those who are regarded as ruling among the Gentiles lord it over them, as you know, and their great men oppress them.


simplify: But thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or thou again, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God.

But you, why do you make yourself your brother's judge? or again, why have you no respect for your brother? because we will all have to take our place before God as our judge.


rate difficulty: See every proud one--humble him, And tread down the wicked in their place.


rate difficulty: And I saw, and behold, a white cloud, and on the cloud one sitting like [the] Son of man, having upon his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.

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simplify: And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.

And while he was talking about righteousness and self-control and the judging which was to come, Felix had great fear and said, Go away for the present, and when the right time comes I will send for you.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Moses,


simplify: For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.


rate difficulty: He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: He maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.

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


simplify: And those laying hold on Jesus led <FI>him<Fi> away unto Caiaphas the chief priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together,

Those who had arrested Jesus took him to Caiaphas, the high priest, where the teachers of the law and the councillors had assembled.


rate difficulty: And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and they took him, and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, unto Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgment upon him.

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


simplify: Joel the chief, and Shapham the second, and Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan.

Joel the chief, and Shapham the second, and Janai and Shaphat in Bashan;


simplify: And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?

And while he was going out into the way, a man came running to him, and went down on his knees, saying, Good Master, what have I to do so that I may have eternal life?


simplify: And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;

Then the third angel blew; and there fell from the heavens a great star, burning like a torch. It fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs.


simplify: And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.

And Solomon made two hundred body-covers of hammered gold, every one having six hundred shekels of gold in it.


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

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rate difficulty: When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass during those many days, that the king of Egypt died. And the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and cried; and their cry came up toGod because of the bondage;


simplify: As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the Lord your God.

Like the nations which the Lord is cutting off before you, so you will be cut off; because you would not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God.


simplify: Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I contend with thee; yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?

You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?


simplify: Lord, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, Lord, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.

Let your ear be turned to us, O Lord, and let your eyes be open, O Lord, and see; take note of all the words of Sennacherib who has sent men to say evil against the living God.


rate difficulty: Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, Give worship before one altar only, burning offerings on it?

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rate difficulty: And it came to pass on the following day, when they came down from the mountain, a great crowd met him.

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rate difficulty: And he hasteth and turneth aside the ashes from off his eyes, and the king of Israel discerneth him, that he <FI>is<Fi> of the prophets,

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


rate difficulty: But still, I will keep a small band safe from the sword among the nations, when you are sent wandering among the countries.

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


simplify: Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; Who is there that will strike hands with me?

Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine.


rate difficulty: Thou shalt build the altar of Jehovah thy God of unhewn stones; and thou shalt offer burnt-offerings thereon unto Jehovah thy God:

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rate difficulty: and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that Jehovah thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came unto this place.

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simplify: And the maid having seen him again, began to say to those standing near--`This is of them;'

and there the maidservant, on seeing him, began to say again to the bystanders: “This is one of them!”


rate difficulty: And the Lord gave ear to the voice of Elijah, and the child's spirit came into him again, and he came back to life.

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


simplify: And again the word of the Lord came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,

And the word of the Lord came a second time to Haggai, on the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,


rate difficulty: But ye [shall] not [be] thus; but let the greater among you be as the younger, and the leader as he that serves.

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


simplify: and they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.

These things will come on you and on your seed, to be a sign and a wonder for ever;


rate difficulty: And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people.


rate difficulty: Then Paul answered, What do ye, weeping and breaking my heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.


simplify: Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.

Give me an answer, O Lord, give me an answer, so that this people may see that you are God, and that you have made their hearts come back again.


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

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


simplify: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.

Then by more than five hundred brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, but some are sleeping;


simplify: And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.

And honey and butter and sheep and milk-cheeses, for David and his people: for they said, This people is in the waste land, needing food and drink and rest.


simplify: And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to Jehovah: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before Jehovah, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

And her goods and her trade will be holy to the Lord: they will not be kept back or stored up; for her produce will be for those living in the Lord's land, to give them food for their needs, and fair clothing.


simplify: in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, in the last trumpet, for it shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we--we shall be changed:

at the last trumpet-call; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will rise immortal, and we, also, will be transformed.


simplify: Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the Lord.

What have I seen? they are overcome with fear and turned back; their men of war are broken and have gone in flight, not looking back: fear is on every side, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: Therefore he sacrificeth unto his net, and burneth incense unto his drag; because by them his portion is fat, and his food plenteous.

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simplify: For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

For I have a desire to take on myself the curse for my brothers, my family in the flesh:


rate difficulty: And a great sign was seen in heaven: a A woman clothed with the sun, and with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

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


rate difficulty: And Joshua blesseth him, and giveth Hebron to Caleb son of Jephunneh for an inheritance,

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


simplify: To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.

To whom they all gave attention, from the smallest to the greatest, saying, This man is that power of God which is named Great.


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brethren fourscore;

Of the sons of Hebron: Eliel the chief, and his brothers, eighty;


rate difficulty: Then the princes of Edom were amazed; The mighty men of Moab, trembling hath seized them; All the inhabitants of Canaan melted away.

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


simplify: And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines slew Saul in Gilboa;

And David went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had taken them away secretly from the public place of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had put them, hanging up the bodies there on the day when they put Saul to death in Gilboa:


rate difficulty: Sons of Elam: a thousand two hundred fifty and four.


simplify: but now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth:

But now it is right for you to put away all these things; wrath, passion, bad feeling, curses, unclean talk;


rate difficulty: And the second thanksgiving company that is going over-against, and I after it, and half of the people on the wall from beyond the tower of the furnaces and unto the broad wall,

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simplify: that they may believe that Jehovah, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.

So that they may be certain that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has been seen by you.


rate difficulty: but God giveth it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.

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simplify: With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for thee, O vine of Sibmah: thy branches passed over the sea, they reached even to the sea of Jazer: upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage the destroyer is fallen.

My weeping for you, O vine of Sibmah, will be more than the weeping of Jazer: your branches have gone over the sea, stretching even to Jazer: destruction has come down on your summer fruits and your cut grapes.


simplify: for I will give to you a mouth and wisdom that all your opposers shall not be able to refute or resist.

for I will myself give you words, and a wisdom which all your opponents together will be unable to resist or defy.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.


simplify: Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.

Then all the people, answering, said with a loud voice, As you have said, so it is right for us to do.


simplify: having a field, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

Having a field, got money for it and put the money at the feet of the Apostles.


rate difficulty: Yes, and in her was to be found the blood of the prophets and of Christ’s people, and of all who have been put to death on the earth.’

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simplify: Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it a city, even Jerusalem:

And you, son of man, take a back and put it before you and on it make a picture of a town, even Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, Like as a shock of grain cometh in in its season.

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


rate difficulty: I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes or by the hinds of the field, Stir not up nor wake the love till she please!

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simplify: The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

And baptism, which this foreshadowed, now saves you — not the mere cleansing of the body, but the search of a clear conscience after God — through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,


rate difficulty: But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

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


rate difficulty: haste, escape thither, for I am not able to do anything till thine entering thither;' therefore hath he calleth the name of the city Zoar.

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


rate difficulty: He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, but he opened not his mouth; he was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and was as a sheep dumb before her shearers, and he opened not his mouth.

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


simplify: Howbeit what saith the scripture? Cast out the handmaid and her son: for the son of the handmaid shall not inherit with the son of the freewoman.

What then do the Writings say? Send away the servant-woman and her son; for the son of the servant-woman will not have a part in the heritage with the son of the free woman.


simplify: And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.

John’s clothes were made of camels’ hair, with a leather strap around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.


simplify: In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.

In the law it is said, By men of other tongues and by strange lips will my words come to this people; and not even so will they give ear to me, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities of Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

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


simplify: That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.


rate difficulty: and Holon and its suburbs, and Debir and its suburbs,

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


rate difficulty: For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

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


simplify: For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

For we are servants; but our God has not been turned away from us in our prison, but has had mercy on us before the eyes of the kings of Persia, to give us new strength to put up again the house of our God and to make fair its waste places, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: `And thou dost turn back, and hast hearkened to the voice of Jehovah, and hast done all His commands which I am commanding thee to-day;

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


simplify: that thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more, because of thy shame, when I have forgiven thee all that thou hast done, saith the Lord Jehovah.

So that, at the memory of these things, you may be at a loss, never opening your mouth because of your shame; when you have my forgiveness for all you have done, says the Lord.


simplify: and all the people were coming early unto him in the temple to hear him.

And all the people would get up early in the morning and come to listen to him in the Temple Courts.


rate difficulty: Bind the chariot to the swift steed, O inhabitress of Lachish: she was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; for in thee were found the transgressions of Israel.

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


simplify: For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, uplifted in pride, given to bitter words, going against the authority of their fathers, never giving praise, having no religion,


rate difficulty: And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth.


simplify: And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

And from the smoke locusts came out on the earth; and power was given them, like the power of scorpions.


simplify: For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

For the foolish man will say foolish things, having evil thoughts in his heart, working what is unclean, and talking falsely about the Lord, to keep food from him who is in need of it, and water from him whose soul is desiring it.


simplify: And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.

And when they came in, they went up into the room where they were living; Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James, the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas, the son of James.


simplify: They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.


rate difficulty: And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.

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


rate difficulty: during forty days, being tempted of the devil. And he did eat nothing in those days: and when they were completed, he hungered.


simplify: Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,

In the fifteenth year of the reign of the Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was Governor of Judea, Herod Ruler of Galilee, his brother Philip Ruler of the territory comprising Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias Ruler of Abilene,


simplify: But Paul and Barnabas tarried in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.

But Paul and Barnabas kept on in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of God, with a number of others.


rate difficulty: But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And there came to my ears the voice of a great army, like the sound of waters, and the sound of loud thunders, saying, Praise to the Lord: for the Lord our God, Ruler of all, is King.


rate difficulty: The heritage of Jacob is not like these; for the maker of all things is his heritage: the Lord of armies is his name.


simplify: (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

(As it is said in the holy Writings, I have made you a father of a number of nations) before him in whom he had faith, that is, God, who gives life to the dead, and to whom the things which are not are as if they were.


simplify: Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

And now, friends, goodbye. Aim at perfection; take courage; agree together; live in peace. And then God, the source of all love and peace, will be with you.


rate difficulty: Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.

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


simplify: but all this hath come to pass, that the Writings of the prophets may be fulfilled;' then all the disciples, having left him, fled.

The whole of this occurred in fulfillment of the Prophetic scriptures. Then the disciples all forsook him and fled.


rate difficulty: And the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the river; and her maids went along by the river's side. And she saw the ark in the midst of the sedge, and sent her handmaid and fetched it.


simplify: In times past, even when Saul was king, it was thou that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and Jehovah thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt be shepherd of my people Israel, and thou shalt be prince over my people Israel.

In the past, when Saul was king, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in; and the Lord your God said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel, and their ruler.


rate difficulty: And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

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


simplify: The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.

The young men and the old are stretched on the earth in the streets; my virgins and my young men have been put to the sword: you have sent death on them in the day of your wrath, causing death without pity.


simplify: And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick.

And he went back to Jezreel to get well from the wounds which they had given him at Ramah when he was fighting against Hazael, king of Aram. And Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to Jezreel to see Jehoram, the son of Ahab, because he was ill.


simplify: And Abijah joined battle with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: and Jeroboam set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, who were mighty men of valor.

And Abijah went out to the fight with an army of men of war, four hundred thousand of his best men; and Jeroboam put his forces in line against him, eight hundred thousand of his best men of war.


simplify: But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

But he who is united to the Lord is one spirit.


rate difficulty: So will my Father in heaven do to you, if you do not everyone, from your hearts, give forgiveness to his brother.

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simplify: The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within.

The wall supporting the side-rooms on the outside was five cubits thick: and there was a free space of five cubits between the side-rooms of the house.


simplify: But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common and unclean.

But Peter said, No, Lord; for I have never taken food which is common or unclean.


rate difficulty: and the great city was torn in three, and the cities of the nation fell, and God remembered Babylon the Great, and gave her the maddening wine-cup of his wrath;

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


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

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


simplify: But, lest we cause them to stumble, go thou to the sea, and cast a hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a shekel: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.

But, so that we may not be a cause of trouble to them, go to the sea, and let down a hook, and take the first fish which comes up; and in his mouth you will see a bit of money: take that, and give it to them for me and you.


rate difficulty: And these lepers come in unto the extremity of the camp, and come in unto one tent, and eat, and drink, and lift up thence silver, and gold, and garments, and go and hide; and they turn back and go in unto another tent, and lift up thence, and go and hide.

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


simplify: My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. So be it.


simplify: The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out: so shall the Lord thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.

The great punishments which your eyes saw, and the signs and the wonders and the strong hand and the stretched-out arm, by which the Lord your God took you out: so will the Lord your God do to all the peoples who are the cause of your fears.


rate difficulty: And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.


rate difficulty: His lord said to him, Well, good and faithful bondman, thou wast faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many things: enter into the joy of thy lord.

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


simplify: And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever may be among you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah; as ye do, so he shall do.

And if a man from another country or any other person living among you, through all your generations, has the desire to give an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord, let him do as you do.


simplify: having eyes full of adultery, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having an heart exercised in covetousnesses, children of a curse,

They have eyes only for adulteresses, eyes never tired of sin; they entice weak souls; their minds are trained to covet; they live under a curse.


rate difficulty: And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel encamped.

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


simplify: And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

Then Pharaoh sent for Abram, and said, What have you done to me? why did you not say that she was your wife?


simplify: And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

And day after day she went on requesting Joseph to come to her and be her lover, but he would not give ear to her.


simplify: and keep the charge of Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself;

And keep the orders of the Lord your God, walking in his ways, keeping his laws and his orders and his rules and his words, as they are recorded in the law of Moses; so that you may do well in all you do and wherever you go,


rate difficulty: Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you.


simplify: And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.

And the people gave him this answer, So it will be done to the man who overcomes him.


simplify: But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him to Cesar.

Paul, however, appealed to have his case reserved for the consideration of his August Majesty, so I ordered him to be detained in custody, until I could send him to the Emperor.”


rate difficulty: They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.

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


simplify: And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them.

And take his sons and put their robes on them;


rate difficulty: So I made an ark of acacia wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in my hand.

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


rate difficulty: Let not your eyes be turned on me, because I am dark, because I was looked on by the sun; my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vine-gardens; but my vine-garden I have not kept.

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


rate difficulty: And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws.

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


rate difficulty: Now all this took place so that the word of the Lord by the prophet might come true,


simplify: The watchmen that go about the city found me; To whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

The watchmen who go about the town came by me; to them I said, Have you seen him who is my heart's desire?


rate difficulty: And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the Lord, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the Lord; for his mercy endureth for ever.

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


rate difficulty: Overthrow not for meat’s sake the work of God. All things indeed are clean; howbeit it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

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


simplify: He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.

By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.


simplify: And Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.

Then Benjamin came back; and they gave them the women whom they had kept from death among the women of Jabesh-gilead: but still there were not enough for them.


simplify: That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.

That so the rest of mankind may earnestly seek the Lord — Even all the Gentiles on whom my name has been bestowed.”


simplify: Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.

All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, took each of them his censer, and put fire in it, and put incense on it, and presented strange fire before Jehovah, which he had not commanded them.

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


simplify: For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.

For there were many instances of people with foul spirits, where the spirits, with loud screams, came out of them;


simplify: Thou shalt build the altar of the Lord thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the Lord thy God:

You are to make the altar of the Lord your God of uncut stones; offering on it burned offerings to the Lord your God:


simplify: Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.

Or to give attention to stories and long lists of generations, from which come questionings and doubts, in place of God's ordered way of life which is in faith;


rate difficulty: And I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors was power, and they had no comforter.


simplify: And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

Hiram sent his servants, who were experienced seamen, in the sea-force with Solomon's men.


rate difficulty: The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and unto this day they drink none, for they obey their father’s commandment. But I have spoken unto you, rising up early and speaking; and ye have not hearkened unto me.

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


rate difficulty: And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:

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


simplify: And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud.

Then the flag of the children of Ephraim went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Elishama, the son of Ammihud.


rate difficulty: And he sheweth me Joshua the high priest standing before the messenger of Jehovah, and the Adversary standing at his right hand, to be an adversary to him.

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


simplify: And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

But if she is clean she will be free and will have offspring.


simplify: Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

Then Doeg, the Edomite, who was by the side of the servants of Saul, in answer said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub.


simplify: And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart:

And after six days Jesus takes with him Peter, and James, and John, his brother, and makes them go up with him into a high mountain by themselves.


rate difficulty: for they did not venture to question him any further.

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


rate difficulty: and I heard a great voice out of the heaven, saying, `Lo, the tabernacle of God <FI>is<Fi> with men, and He will tabernacle with them, and they shall be His peoples, and God Himself shall be with them--their God,

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.

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


simplify: And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering; for it was without number.

So he got together a store of grain like the sand of the sea; so great a store that after a time he gave up measuring it, for it might not be measured.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and thou shalt screen the ark with the veil.

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


rate difficulty: These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,

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


simplify: Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.


simplify: Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

Truly, he puts no faith in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes;


rate difficulty: Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.

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


simplify: Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

And David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom, with all the men of Israel, went over Jordan.


simplify: Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.

Outside are the dogs, and those who make use of evil powers, those who make themselves unclean, and the takers of life, and those who give worship to images, and everyone whose delight is in what is false.


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.

And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Let the rod in your hand be stretched out over the streams and the waterways and the pools, causing frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.


simplify: And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them.

Then Moses sent for them; and Aaron, with the chiefs of the people, came to him; and Moses had talk with them.


simplify: And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

And she said with a loud voice: May blessing be on you among women, and a blessing on the child of your body.


simplify: and having lifted up their eyes, they saw no one, except Jesus only.

When they raised their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus himself alone.


rate difficulty: And when we had sailed slowly many days, and scarce were come over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone;

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith, `I have forgiven, according to thy word;

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


simplify: And these are they that waited, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,

And these are those who did this work, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman, who made melody, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,


rate difficulty: For we hear that [there are] some walking among you disorderly, not working at all, but busybodies.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be ye valiant: for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.

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


rate difficulty: Give what property you have in exchange for money, and give the money to the poor; make for yourselves money-bags which will not get old, wealth stored up in heaven which will be yours for ever, where thieves will not come nor worms put it to destruction.

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


rate difficulty: till an arrow strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for its life.

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


simplify: Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

Children, do the orders of your fathers and mothers in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord.


rate difficulty: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:

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


simplify: This charge I commit to thee, child Timotheus, according to the prophesies that went before upon thee, that thou mayest war in them the good warfare,

This, then, is the charge that I lay on you, Timothy, my child, in accordance with what was predicted of you — Fight the good fight in the spirit of those predictions,


rate difficulty: `And--ye have sought from thence Jehovah thy God, and hast found, when thou seekest Him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,

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


simplify: If therefore the whole church be assembled together and all speak with tongues, and there come in men unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that ye are mad?

If, then, the church has come together, and all are using tongues, and there come in men without knowledge or faith, will they not say that you are unbalanced?


simplify: And all winged creeping things are unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.

Every winged thing which goes flat on the earth is unclean to you and may not be used as food.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.

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


rate difficulty: And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine towns with their unwalled places.

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


rate difficulty: By thy blood that thou hast shed thou hast been guilty, And by thine idols that thou hast made thou hast been defiled, And thou causest thy days to draw near, And art come in unto thine years, Therefore I have given thee a reproach to nations, And a derision to all the lands.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 17 | difficulty: hard


simplify: The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Beth–el, and in their villages,

And the children of Benjamin were living from Geba, at Michmash and Aija, and at Beth-el and its daughter-towns,


rate difficulty: For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us--exceedingly?

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


rate difficulty: For, just as in the human body there is a union of many parts, and each part has its own function,

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


rate difficulty: And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away, for I am sore wounded.


rate difficulty: I will come quickly. Hold to what you have received so that no one may take your crown.

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


simplify: And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the Lord, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the Lord remembered her.

And early in the morning they got up, and after worshipping before the Lord they went back to Ramah, to their house: and Elkanah had connection with his wife; and the Lord kept her in mind.


simplify: Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.

You may get food for your needs from them for a price, and water for drinking.


simplify: And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague: and, behold, if the scall spread not, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the scall be not in sight deeper than the skin;

And on the seventh day the priest will see the place: and if it is not increased, and there is no yellow hair in it, and it does not seem to go deeper than the skin,


simplify: But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

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


simplify: In like manner also the cup after the supping, saying, `This cup is the new covenant in my blood; this do ye, as often as ye may drink <FI>it<Fi> --to the remembrance of me;'

And in the same way with the cup, after supper, saying “This cup is the new covenant made by my blood. Do this, whenever you drink it, in memory of me.”


rate difficulty: and Pharaoh hardeneth his heart also at this time, and hath not sent the people away.

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


rate difficulty: These <FI>are<Fi> births of Noah: Noah <FI>is<Fi> a righteous man; perfect he hath been among his generations; with God hath Noah walked habitually.

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


simplify: For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

For by me your days will be increased, and the years of your life will be long.


rate difficulty: Brothers and sisters, descendants of Abraham, and all those among you who worship God, it was to us that the message of this salvation was sent.

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


rate difficulty: Teach that the older men should be temperate, serious, and discreet; strong in faith, love, and endurance.


simplify: all this, O king, doth Araunah give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, Jehovah thy God accept thee.

All this does the servant of my lord the king give to the king. And Araunah said, May the Lord your God be pleased with your offering!


rate difficulty: and not frightened in anything by the opposers, which is to them a demonstration of destruction, but of your salvation, and that fromGod;


rate difficulty: and the wine-press was trodden without the city, and blood went out of the wine-press to the bits of the horses for a thousand six hundred stadia.


simplify: And they came near to the steward of Joseph’s house, and they spake unto him at the door of the house,

So they went up to Joseph's chief servant at the door of the house,


rate difficulty: And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates as of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone: and the heads of the horses are as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths proceedeth fire and smoke and brimstone.

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


simplify: For he said, Because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

For he said, The Lord has taken his oath that there will be war with Amalek from generation to generation.


simplify: Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

Put me as a sign on your heart, as a sign on your arm; love is strong as death, and wrath bitter as the underworld: its coals are coals of fire; violent are its flames.


simplify: For verily that which hath been made glorious hath not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasseth.

For the glory of the first no longer seems to be glory, because of the greater glory of that which comes after.


rate difficulty: For we have great thankfulness and encouragement through thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

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


simplify: Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.

You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet make no slip.


rate difficulty: Now he that supplies seed to the sower and bread for eating shall supply and make abundant your sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness:

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


rate difficulty: And the governor answering said to them, Which of the two will ye that I release unto you? And they said, Barabbas.

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


simplify: And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar; but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.

And the fat is to be burned by the priest on the altar, but the breast is for Aaron and his sons.


simplify: And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter-in-law, It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, and that they meet thee not in any other field.

And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, It is better, my daughter, for you to go out with his servant-girls, so that no danger may come to you in another field.


simplify: and they said, `Moses suffered to write a bill of divorce, and to put away.'

“Moses,” they said, “permitted a man to ‘draw up in writing a notice of separation and divorce his wife.’”


simplify: Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:

And he said, O foolish men! how slow you are to give belief to what the prophets have said.


rate difficulty: And if he that halloweth it will redeem his house, he shall add the fifth of the money of thy valuation unto it, and it shall be his.

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


simplify: and to God--thanks, to Him who is giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ;

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory, through Jesus Christ, our Lord.


simplify: the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped.


rate difficulty: Go, take your place in the Temple and give the people all the teaching about this Life.

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


rate difficulty: Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.


simplify: Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

Put all your hope in God, not looking to your reason for support.


rate difficulty: And king Solomon answered and said to his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.


rate difficulty: Now on the first day of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where are we to make ready for you to take the Passover meal?

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


simplify: And he said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.

And he said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, let me do well in what I have undertaken this day, and give your mercy to my master Abraham.


simplify: My friends scoff at me: But mine eye poureth out tears unto God,

My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,


rate difficulty: And he shall bring his trespass-offering unto Jehovah, unto the door of the tent of meeting, even a ram for a trespass-offering.

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


simplify: but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought--for desires.

No! Arm yourselves with the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, and spend no thought on your earthly nature, to satisfy its cravings.


rate difficulty: For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.


simplify: But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.

you say ‘If a person says to their father or mother “Whatever of mine might have been of service to you is Korban”’(which means ‘Given to God’) —


simplify: But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.

Whenever they betray you and hand you over for trial, do not be anxious beforehand as to what you will say, but say whatever is given you at the moment; for it will not be you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.


rate difficulty: There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

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


rate difficulty: Lo, God <FI>is<Fi> my salvation, I trust, and fear not, For my strength and song <FI>is<Fi> Jah Jehovah, And He is to me for salvation.

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


simplify: Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him against Paul, and besought him,

There the chief priests and the leading men among the Jews laid an information before him against Paul,


rate difficulty: Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

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


rate difficulty: `And that which fell to the thorns: These are they who have heard, and going forth, through anxieties, and riches, and pleasures of life, are choked, and bear not to completion.

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


simplify: But if I by the finger of God cast out demons, then is the kingdom of God come upon you.

But if I, by the finger of God, send out evil spirits, then the kingdom of God has overtaken you.


simplify: Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king’s sons are dead: for Amnon only is dead.

So now, let not my lord the king take this thing to heart, with the idea that all the king's sons are dead: for only Amnon is dead.


rate difficulty: And you, child, will be named the prophet of the Most High: you will go before the face of the Lord, to make ready his ways;


rate difficulty: That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the Lord your God.

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


simplify: For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?

for a friend of mine has arrived at my house after a journey, and I have nothing to offer him;’


simplify: Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.

Further, this is what she has done to me: she has made my holy place unclean and has made my Sabbaths unclean.


simplify: But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

But you, by your union with Christ Jesus, belong to God; and Christ, by God’s will, became not only our wisdom, but also our righteousness, holiness, and deliverance,


rate difficulty: For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.


rate difficulty: Then, if anyone there is deserving of a blessing, your blessing will rest on him; but if not, it will come back on yourselves.


rate difficulty: The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

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


simplify: Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.

Of the children of Levi, four thousand, six hundred.


rate difficulty: They have uncovered her nakedness, Her sons and her daughters they have taken, And her by sword they have slain, And she is a name for women, And judgments they have done with her.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thyGod, O Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And he, having brought fine linen, and having taken him down, wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre that had been hewn out of a rock, and he rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre,

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


rate difficulty: Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.

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


simplify: Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God.

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


rate difficulty: 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.

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


simplify: May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

have the power to comprehend in all its width and length and height and depth,


simplify: and the name of the other was Eliezer; forhe said, The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.

And the name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, The God of my father was my help, and kept me safe from the sword of Pharaoh:


rate difficulty: Brethren, the delight of my own heart and my supplication which [I address] toGod for them is for salvation.

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


simplify: And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.

And into whatever town or small place you go, make search there for someone who is respected, and make his house your resting-place till you go away.


rate difficulty: Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.

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


rate difficulty: And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother, to Esau; and he also is coming to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.

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


simplify: Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:

Turning to Paul, Agrippa said: “You are at liberty to speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand and began his defense.


simplify: in which He did abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

All this accords with the loving kindness which God lavished on us, accompanied by countless gifts of wisdom and discernment,


rate difficulty: And he said to him, Come in, you on whom is the blessing of the Lord; why are you waiting outside? for I have made the house ready for you, and a place for the camels.


simplify: and filled was the sanctuary with smoke from the glory of God, and from His power, and no one was able to enter into the sanctuary till the seven plagues of the seven messengers may be finished.

‘The Temple was filled with smoke from the glory’ and Majesty of God; and no one could enter the Temple, until the seven curses inflicted by the seven angels were at an end.


simplify: and it will come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they will say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.

And I am certain that when the men of Egypt see you, they will say, This is his wife: and they will put me to death and keep you.


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

And Menahem got the money from Israel, from all the men of wealth, fifty silver shekels from every man, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria went back without stopping in the land.


simplify: And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, And try him every moment?

And that your hand is on him every morning, and that you are testing him every minute?


simplify: but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

But in the seventh year let the land have a rest and be unplanted; so that the poor may have food from it: and let the beasts of the field take the rest. Do the same with your vine-gardens and your olive-trees.


simplify: For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: After glory hath he sent me unto the nations which plundered you; for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.

For this is what the Lord of armies has said: In the way of glory he has sent me to the nations which have taken your goods: for anyone touching you is touching what is most dear to him.


simplify: Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,

The produce of the garden is pomegranates; with all the best fruits, henna and spikenard,


rate difficulty: Now the king was seated in the winter house, and a fire was burning in the fireplace in front of him.

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


simplify: And the Lord appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice.

Now the Lord came to Solomon in a vision by night, and said to him, I have given ear to your prayer, and have taken this place for myself as a house where offerings are to be made.


simplify: A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

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


rate difficulty: And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first.


rate difficulty: Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all ye that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against Jehovah.

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


simplify: And the nations shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory, and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of Jehovah shall name.

And the nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory: and you will have a new name, given by the mouth of the Lord.


simplify: He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a plot of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.

He was with David at Pas-dammim, where the Philistines had come together for the fight, near a bit of land full of barley; and the people went in flight before the Philistines.


simplify: I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.


simplify: Thou also, bear thou thine own shame, in that thou hast given judgment for thy sisters; through thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they, they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou also confounded, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.

And you yourself will be put to shame, in that you have given the decision for your sisters; through your sins, which are more disgusting than theirs, they are more upright than you: truly, you will be shamed and made low, for you have made your sisters seem upright.


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

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


rate difficulty: `And thou, Capernaum, which unto the heaven wast exalted, unto hades thou shalt be brought down.

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


rate difficulty: I will yet bring unto thee an heir, O inhabitress of Mareshah; the glory of Israel shall come even unto Adullam.

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


simplify: neither may we tempt the Christ, as also certain of them did tempt, and by the serpents did perish;

Nor let us try the patience of the Lord too far, as some of them tried it, with the result that they ‘were, one after another, destroyed by the snakes.’


rate difficulty: if I have found grace in the eyes of the king, and if unto the king <FI>it be<Fi> good, to give my petition, and to perform my request, the king doth come, and Haman, unto the banquet that I make for them, and to-morrow I do according to the word of the king.'

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


simplify: And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.

And when they had been made free, they came back to their friends, and gave an account of all the things which the chief priests and the authorities had said to them.


simplify: Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.

Only two things do not do to me, then I will come before your face:


simplify: And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.

(In the eleventh year of the rule of Joram, the son of Ahab, Ahaziah became king over Judah.)


rate difficulty: Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it, for David thy father’s sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.

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


simplify: Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.

Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, Who will go down with me to the tents of Saul? And Abishai said, I will go down with you.


rate difficulty: for behold, days are coming in which they will say, Blessed [are] the barren, and wombs that have not borne, and breasts that have not given suck.

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


simplify: Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul:

Then he went on to Tarsus, looking for Saul;


rate difficulty: But still, because you have had no respect for the Lord, death will certainly overtake the child who has newly come to birth.

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


rate difficulty: Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

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


simplify: Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison;

So take your arrows and your bow and go out to the field and get meat for me;


rate difficulty: gold for [things of] gold, and silver for [things of] silver, and for all manner of work by the hands of artificers. And who is willing to offer to Jehovah this day?


simplify: And I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it round about, from the appearance of his loins and upward; and from the appearance of his loins and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness round about him.

And I saw it coloured like electrum, with the look of fire in it and round it, going up from what seemed to be the middle of his body; and going down from what seemed to be the middle of his body I saw what was like fire, and there was a bright light shining round him.


rate difficulty: Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;

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


simplify: See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:

I have made selection of Bezalel, the son of Uri, by name, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:


simplify: They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

They have gone to what is of no value; they are like a false bow; their captains will come to destruction by the sword, and their ruler by my wrath; for this, the land of Egypt will make sport of them.


simplify: The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.

True teaching was in his mouth, and no evil was seen on his lips: he was walking with me in peace and righteousness, turning numbers of people away from evil-doing.


simplify: But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die;

If in his hate he put a sword through him, or waiting secretly for him sent a spear or stone at him, causing his death;


simplify: And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:

Now when the priests had come out of the holy place, (for all the priests who were present had made themselves holy, not keeping to their divisions;


rate difficulty: `Thou dost not abominate an Edomite, for thy brother he <FI>is<Fi> ; thou dost not abominate an Egyptian, for a sojourner thou hast been in his land;

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


rate difficulty: Uz his first-born, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,

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


rate difficulty: And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.

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


simplify: But if water be put upon the seed, and aught of their carcass fall thereon, it is unclean unto you.

But if water is put on the seed, and any part of the dead body gets on to it, it will be unclean to you.


rate difficulty: And the one, whose name was Cleopas, answering, said unto him, `Art thou alone such a stranger in Jerusalem, that thou hast not known the things that came to pass in it in these days?'

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


simplify: My defence to those who examine me in this;

The defense that I make to my critics is this:


rate difficulty: Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twenty:

Of the sons of Kohath: Uriel the chief, and his brothers, a hundred and twenty;


simplify: And they set them up Micah’s graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

And they put up for themselves the image which Micah had made, and it was there all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.


rate difficulty: The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

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


simplify: Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,

And the king said to me, Why is your face sad, seeing that you are not ill? this is nothing but sorrow of heart. Then I was full of fear;


simplify: The younger men, in like manner, be exhorting to be sober-minded;

And so again with the younger men — impress on them the need of discretion.


simplify: But if the bright spot stay in its place, and be not spread, it is the scar of the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

But if the bright mark keeps in the same place and gets no greater, it is the mark of the old wound, and the priest will say that he is clean.


rate difficulty: And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred [shekels] of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; and so they brought [them] by their means, for all the kings of the Hittites and for the kings of Syria.

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


simplify: And after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that he had with him, and persuaded him to go up with him to Ramoth–gilead.

And after some years he went down to Samaria to see Ahab. And Ahab made a feast for him and the people who were with him, putting to death great numbers of sheep and oxen; and he got Jehoshaphat to go with him to Ramoth-gilead.


rate difficulty: And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.


simplify: And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take the filthy garments from off him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with rich apparel.

And he made answer and said to those who were there before him, Take the unclean robes off him, and let him be clothed in clean robes;


rate difficulty: And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt say, Because of the tidings, for it cometh; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and it shall be done, saith the Lord Jehovah.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 11 | difficulty: hard


simplify: When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the people.

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


simplify: but in his own seasons manifested his word in the message, wherewith I was intrusted according to the commandment of God our Saviour;

Who, in his time, made clear his word in the good news, of which, by the order of God our Saviour, I became a preacher;


rate difficulty: And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

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


simplify: The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the cypress spears are brandished.

The body-covers of his fighting men have been made red, the men of war are clothed in bright red: the war-carriages are like flames of fire in the day when he gets ready, the horses are shaking.


simplify: And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.

The apostles did not comprehend any of this; his meaning was unintelligible to them, and they did not understand what he was saying.


rate difficulty: And Shamsherai, and Shehariah, and Athaliah,

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


simplify: In his days Pharaoh–nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

In his days, Pharaoh-necoh, king of Egypt, sent his armies against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and King Josiah went out against him; and he put him to death at Megiddo, when he had seen him.


simplify: And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the Lord, Because the Syrians have said, The Lord is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

And a man of God came up and said to the king of Israel, The Lord says, Because the Aramaeans have said, The Lord is a god of the hills and not of the valleys; I will give all this great army into your hands, and you will see that I am the Lord.


simplify: The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, for ever, to burn incense before Jehovah, to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, for ever.

The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was made separate and holy, he and his sons for ever, for the care of the most holy things and the burning of offerings before the Lord, to do his work and give blessings in his name for ever.


rate difficulty: The traveller did not take his night's rest in the street, and my doors were open to anyone on a journey;

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


rate difficulty: The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras.

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


rate difficulty: The upright man is taken out of trouble, and in his place comes the sinner.


rate difficulty: Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee.

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


simplify: And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

And Solomon had four thousand boxed-off spaces for horses for his carriages, and twelve thousand horsemen.


rate difficulty: And after about an hour, another man said, with decision, Certainly this man was with him, for he is a Galilaean.


simplify: That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

It is of what we have seen and heard that we now tell you, so that you may have communion with us. And our communion is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.


simplify: Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

See, it is recorded before me, says the Lord: I will not keep back my hand, till I have sent punishment,


simplify: And some of the sons of the priests made the ointment of the spices.

And some of the sons of the priests were responsible for crushing the spices.


simplify: (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;

(For you have in mind how we were living in the land of Egypt; and how we came through all the nations which were on your way;


simplify: And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes:

And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:


simplify: And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection.

A man called Barabbas was in prison, with the rioters who had committed murder during a riot.


rate difficulty: `And if he bring in a sheep <FI>for<Fi> his offering, for a sin-offering, a female, a perfect one, he doth bring in,

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


rate difficulty: And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field also have I given him to serve him.

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


simplify: How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,

and also that it was by direct revelation that the hidden purpose of God was made known to me, as I have already briefly told you.


rate difficulty: For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.


rate difficulty: But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

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


rate difficulty: Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus make a way for us to come to you;


simplify: And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp is set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it: but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting.

And after the holy place and all its vessels have been covered up by Aaron and his sons, when the tents of the people go forward, the sons of Kohath are to come and take it up; but the holy things may not be touched by them for fear of death.


rate difficulty: And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, that appertained to the throne of the governor beyond the River.

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


rate difficulty: Unto whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them):

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


simplify: And having taken bread, having given thanks, he brake and gave to them, saying, `This is my body, that for you is being given, this do ye--to remembrance of me.'

Then Jesus took some bread, and, after saying the thanksgiving, broke it and gave to them, with the words: “This is my body.


simplify: Now the time that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.

Now the children of Israel had been living in Egypt for four hundred and thirty years.


simplify: If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

If, then, you have not been true in your use of the wealth of this life, who will give into your care the true wealth?


rate difficulty: for six months did Joab abide there, and all Israel, till the cutting off of every male in Edom--

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


simplify: Thus saith the Lord God; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.

This is what the Lord has said: Take away the holy head-dress, take off the crown: this will not be again: let that which is low be lifted up, and that which is high be made low.


rate difficulty: The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

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


rate difficulty: And of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel, and their brethren, six hundred and ninety.

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


rate difficulty: And the chief priests and the scribes stood and accused him violently.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;

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


rate difficulty: And he, being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, at his reclining (at meat), there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment, of spikenard, very precious, and having broken the alabaster box, did pour on his head;

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


rate difficulty: Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.

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


simplify: And as for the people, he removed them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

And as for the people, he made servants of them, town by town, from one end of Egypt to the other.


rate difficulty: So they went on worshipping the Lord, and made for themselves, from among all the people, priests for the high places, to make offerings for them in the houses of the high places.

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


rate difficulty: Enter in through the narrow gate, for wide the gate and broad the way that leads to destruction, and many are they who enter in through it.

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


simplify: Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.

See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will have Israel and Judah planted with the seed of man and with the seed of beast.


rate difficulty: As a vessel of snow in a day of harvest, <FI>So is<Fi> a faithful ambassador to those sending him, And the soul of his masters he refresheth.

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


simplify: And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,


rate difficulty: And David answered and said, Behold the king’s spear! and let one of the young men come over and fetch it.

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


simplify: But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.

But  ‘alas for you who are rich,’ for you have had your comforts in full.


simplify: and at the same time also, they learn <FI>to be<Fi> idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;

And not only that, but they learn to be idle as they go about from house to house. Nor are they merely idle, but they also become gossips and busybodies, and talk of what they ought not.


simplify: For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: but your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

For the nations of the world go in search of all these things: but your Father has knowledge that you have need of them.


simplify: There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

For this cause those who are in Christ Jesus will not be judged as sinners.


simplify: The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:

Now Jacob had twelve sons: the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first son, and Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun;


simplify: And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.

And Moses gave orders to the children of Israel to keep the Passover.


simplify: Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

who gave himself as a ransom on behalf of all men.  This must be our testimony, as opportunities present themselves;


simplify: at all times the dying of the Lord Jesus bearing about in the body, that the life also of Jesus in our body may be manifested,

We always bear on our bodies the marks of the death that Jesus died, so that the life also of Jesus may be exhibited in our bodies.


simplify: And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house unto the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.

The walls of the house were covered inside with cedar-wood boards; from the floor to the roof of the house they were covered inside with wood; and the floor was covered with boards of cypress-wood.


simplify: And she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by the Lord thy God unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.

And she said to him, My lord, you took an oath by the Lord your God and gave your word to your servant, saying, Truly, Solomon your son will be king after me, seated on the seat of my kingdom.


rate difficulty: As Jehovah thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not here, he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.

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


rate difficulty: And they encamped one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians a hundred thousand footmen in one day.


simplify: When ye have transgressed the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.

If the agreement of the Lord your God, which was given to you by his orders, is broken, and you become the servants of other gods and give them worship, then the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, and you will quickly be cut off from the good land which he has given you.


rate difficulty: We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

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


rate difficulty: The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

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


simplify: If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith Jehovah of hosts, then will I send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.

If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.


simplify: And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.

And word was given to Joshua that the five kings had been taken in a hole in the rock at Makkedah.