simplify: And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein,

If a man makes a hole in the earth without covering it up, and an ox or an ass dropping into it comes to its death;


rate difficulty: Thou dost number the months they fulfil? And thou hast known the time of their bringing forth!

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rate difficulty: Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clean olive oil for the light, so that a light may be burning at all times,

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


simplify: Who <FI>is<Fi> wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,

Who among you claims to be wise and intelligent? Let them show that their actions are the outcome of a good life lived in the humility of true wisdom.


rate difficulty: Then Rachel said, God has been my judge, and has given ear to my voice, and has given me a son; so he was named Dan.

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rate difficulty: But Jesus, looking on [them], said to them, With men this is impossible; but withGod all things are possible.


simplify: And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.

And if it gives you back an answer of peace, opening its doors to you, then all the people in it may be put to forced work as your servants.


simplify: The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,

The number of all the people together was forty-two thousand, three hundred and sixty,


simplify: But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?

But, as Festus wished to gain popularity with the Jews, he interrupted Paul with the question:   “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and be tried on these charges before me there?”


simplify: Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:

Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land.


simplify: which is easier--to say, Thy sins have been forgiven thee? or to say, Arise, and walk?

Which is the easier? — to say ‘Your sins have been forgiven you’? Or to say ‘Get up, and walk’?


simplify: And why have ye brought the assembly of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?

Why have you taken the Lord's people into this waste, for death to come to us and to our cattle there?


simplify: And all they that heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the hand of the Lord was with him.

And all who had word of them kept them in their minds and said, What will this child be? For the hand of the Lord was with him.


simplify: If it please the king, let it be written that they be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those that have the charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.

If it is the king's pleasure, let a statement ordering their destruction be put in writing: and I will give to those responsible for the king's business, ten thousand talents of silver for the king's store-house.


simplify: and Jesus was advancing in wisdom, and in stature, and in favour with God and men.

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


rate difficulty: And now, give thought; looking on from this day, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the time when the base of the Lord's house was put in its place, give thought to it.

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


simplify: And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;

But if he says to you, I have no desire to go away from you; because you and your family are dear to him and he is happy with you;


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

and they picked up enough broken pieces to fill twelve baskets, as well as some of the fish.


simplify: In the way of righteousness is life; And in the pathway thereof there is no death.

In the road of righteousness is life, but the way of the evil-doer goes to death.


rate difficulty: And Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of Jehovah, before the new court;


simplify: Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

This is the parable — The seed is God’s message.


simplify: And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan.

And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went out and took their places facing them a long way off, while the two of them were by the edge of Jordan.


simplify: He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.

He will be the builder of my house, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.


simplify: And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:

Then Pharaoh said, In my dream I was by the side of the Nile:


simplify: and it will come--the day of the Lord--as a thief in the night, in which the heavens with a rushing noise will pass away, and the elements with burning heat be dissolved, and earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.

The day of the Lord will come like a thief; and on that day the heavens will pass away with a crash, the elements will be burnt up and dissolved, and the earth and all that is in it will be disclosed.


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

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


simplify: Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.

Who took the fat of their offerings, and the wine of their drink offering? Let them now come to your help, let them be your salvation.


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

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


rate difficulty: And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.

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


rate difficulty: When Jesus had brought to a conclusion all that he had then had to say to the people, he entered Capernaum.

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


simplify: But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:

No, when you entertain, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind;


simplify: But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.

But if I go on living in the flesh--if this is the fruit of my work--then I do not see what decision to make.


rate difficulty: And they removed from Succoth and encamped in Etham, which is at the end of the wilderness.

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


simplify: And saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.

And I saw him saying to me, Go out of Jerusalem straight away because they will not give hearing to your witness about me.


simplify: And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.

So a very great number of people came together at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month.


simplify: And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

And he took his place between the dead and the living: and the disease was stopped.


rate difficulty: and having found a certain Jew, by name Aquilas, of Pontus by birth, lately come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife--because of Claudius having directed all the Jews to depart out of Rome--he came to them,

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Then Jonah prayed unto Jehovah his God out of the fish’s belly.

Then Jonah made prayer to the Lord his God from the inside of the fish, and said,


simplify: Behold, the tempest of Jehovah, even hiswrath, is gone forth, a sweeping tempest: it shall burst upon the head of the wicked.

See, the storm-wind of the Lord, even the heat of his wrath, has gone out, a rolling storm, bursting on the heads of the evil-doers.


simplify: And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.

The frogs will come up over you and your people and all your servants.


rate difficulty: And the sons of his brother Helem: Zophah, and Jimna, and Shelesh, and Amal.

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


simplify: As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have set free thy prisoners from the pit wherein is no water.

And as for you, because of the blood of your agreement, I have sent out your prisoners from the deep hole in which there is no water.


rate difficulty: He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because he delighted in me.


simplify: And the Lord hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.

The Lord has given my master every blessing, and he has become great: he has given him flocks and herds and silver and gold, and men-servants and women-servants and camels and asses.


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

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


simplify: for already some are turned aside after Satan.

For even now some are turned away to Satan.


simplify: By slothfulness the roof sinketh in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaketh.

When no work is done the roof goes in, and when the hands do nothing water comes into the house.


simplify: And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;

And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death;


simplify: So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

So the last will be first, and the first last.


rate difficulty: and Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.

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


simplify: And the Lord sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.

And the Lord sent Nathan to David. And Nathan came to him and said, There were two men in the same town: one a man of great wealth, and the other a poor man.


simplify: For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

For the son puts shame on his father, the daughter goes against her mother and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's haters are those of his family.


simplify: Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;


rate difficulty: And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men, and followed hard after them unto Gidom, and smote of them two thousand men.

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


rate difficulty: And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto Jehovah your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.

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


simplify: With whom the Lord had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:

And the Lord made an agreement with them and gave them orders, saying, You are to have no other gods; you are not to give worship to them or be their servants or make them offerings:


simplify: And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.

Now Zebul, the ruler of the town, hearing what Gaal, the son of Ebed, had said, was moved to wrath.


simplify: And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

And its streams will be turned into boiling oil, and its dust into burning stone, and all the land will be on fire.


rate difficulty: but I trust in [the] Lord that I myself also shall soon come;

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


simplify: And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.

And if any person, whoever he may be, on that day does any sort of work, I will send destruction on him from among his people.


rate difficulty: And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.


simplify: God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.

That our children have had this promise completely fulfilled to them by God, by his raising Jesus. That is just what is said in the second Psalm —  ‘You are my Son; this day I have become your Father.’


simplify: For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.

For I will give you a place of very great honour, and whatever you say to me I will do; so come, in answer to my prayer, and put a curse on this people.


simplify: but the death did reign from Adam till Moses, even upon those not having sinned in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of him who is coming.

Yet, from Adam to Moses, death reigned even over those whose sin was not a breach of a law, as Adam’s was. And Adam foreshadows the One to come.


simplify: For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;

For it pleased the Father that in him the divine nature in all its fulness should live,


simplify: Then did he release to them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, he delivered <FI>him<Fi> up that he may be crucified;

The Pilate released Barabbas to them; but Jesus he scourged, and gave him up to be crucified.


rate difficulty: And Hezekiah was glad of them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not.

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


rate difficulty: And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.

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


rate difficulty: But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts.

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


rate difficulty: And they going forth from Jericho, there followed him a great multitude,

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rate difficulty: For through the anger of the Lord it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

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


simplify: And all the people of the country of the Gerasenes round about asked him to depart from them; for they were holden with great fear: and he entered into a boat, and returned.

And all the people of the country of the Gerasenes made a request to him to go away from them; for they were in great fear: and he got into a boat and went back.


rate difficulty: And there was a man at Maon, whose business was at Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep at Carmel.

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


simplify: And he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called, saying, Maid, arise.

But he, taking her hand, said to her, My child, get up.


rate difficulty: The meadows by the Nile, on the banks of the Nile, and everything sown by the Nile, shall be dried up, be driven away, and be no [more].

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


simplify: Do all things without murmurings and questionings:

Do all things without protests and arguments;


rate difficulty: And the Levites took down the ark of the Lord, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth–shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the Lord.

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


simplify: and the anger of Jehovah be kindled against you, and he shut up the heavens, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and ye perish quickly from off the good land which Jehovah giveth you.

For if you do so, the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, and the heaven will be shut up so that there is no rain and the land will give no fruit; and in a very little time you will be cut off from the good land which the Lord is giving you.


rate difficulty: Jesus, however, turning around and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter. “Out of my sight, Satan!”he exclaimed. “For you look at things, not as God does, but as people do.”

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


simplify: And he said to her, `Thy sins have been forgiven;'

Then he said to the woman: “Your sins have been pardoned.”


simplify: And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he that searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto each one of you according to your works.

And I will put her children to death; and all the churches will see that I am he who makes search into the secret thoughts and hearts of men: and I will give to every one of you the reward of your works.


rate difficulty: And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jonah a second time, saying,

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


simplify: And behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the boat was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.

And there came up a great storm in the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves: but he was sleeping.


simplify: But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

But to those who were separate you gave wine for drink; and to the prophets you said, Be prophets no longer.


rate difficulty: Then Gideon was certain that he was the angel of the Lord; and Gideon said, I am in fear, O Lord God! for I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.


rate difficulty: These were the courses of the doorkeepers; of the sons of the Korahites, and of the sons of Merari.


rate difficulty: and having been divinely warned in a dream not to turn back unto Herod, through another way they withdrew to their own region.

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


simplify: And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.

And of Asher he said, Let Asher have the blessing of children; may he be pleasing to his brothers, and let his foot be wet with oil.


rate difficulty: For not he that commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.


simplify: and they did bow before the dragon who did give authority to the beast, and they did bow before the beast, saying, `Who <FI>is<Fi> like to the beast? who is able to war with it?'

and men worshiped the Dragon, because he had given his dominion to the Beast; while, as they worshiped the Beast, they said — ‘Who can compare with the Beast? And who can fight with it?’


rate difficulty: Twice in the week I go without food; I give a tenth of all I have.


rate difficulty: and now, send hastily, and declare to David, saying, Lodge not to-night in the plains of the wilderness, and also, certainly pass over, lest there be a swallowing up of the king and of all the people who are with him.'

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


rate difficulty: 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: Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

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


simplify: And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.

And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love for one another, even as he said to us.


simplify: Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you.

Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.


rate difficulty: Thou art turned to be fierce to me, With the strength of Thy hand, Thou oppressest me.

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


rate difficulty: The seven fine kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.


simplify: And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.

And he said to me, Son of man, let your stomach make a meal of it and let your inside be full of this roll which I am giving you. Then I took it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth.


rate difficulty: to dispossess nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.

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


simplify: And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.

And they went on from Succoth and put up their tents in Etham on the edge of the waste land.


rate difficulty: Is this the first time I have got directions from God for him? Far be the thought! let the king make no such statement against his servant or my father's family, for your servant has no knowledge, great or small, of this thing.

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


simplify: He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob; Neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: Jehovah his God is with him, And the shout of a king is among them.

He has seen no evil in Jacob or wrongdoing in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the glad cry of a king is among them.


simplify: For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and from the one end of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?

Give thought now to the days which are past, before your time, from the day when God first gave life to man on the earth, and searching from one end of heaven to the other, see if such a great thing as this has ever been, or if anything like it has been talked of in story.


simplify: And he drave them from the judgment seat.

And he sent them away from the judge's seat.


simplify: And Mary said,  My soul doth magnify the Lord,

And Mary said: My soul gives glory to God;


rate difficulty: And the king said to the man of God, Come with me to my house for food and rest, and I will give you a reward.

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


rate difficulty: so as to make a separation between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the pure;


rate difficulty: And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.

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


simplify: A bribe isasa precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it; Whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.

An offering of money is like a stone of great price in the eyes of him who has it: wherever he goes, he does well.


rate difficulty: Now I beseech you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

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


simplify: Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.

And Michal, Saul's daughter, had no child till the day of her death.


simplify: This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

This is evil in all things which are done under the sun: that there is one fate for all, and the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; while they have life their hearts are foolish, and after that--to the dead.


rate difficulty: Therefore do I loathe <FI>it<Fi> , And I have repented on dust and ashes.

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


rate difficulty: And he says to the man who had his hand dried up, Rise up [and come] into the midst.

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


simplify: But Rab–shakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?

But the Rab-shakeh said to them, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in.


simplify: And in the greatness of thine excellency thou overthrowest them that rise up against thee: Thou sendest forth thy wrath, it consumeth them as stubble.

When you are lifted up in power, all those who come against you are crushed: when you send out your wrath, they are burned up like dry grass.


simplify: For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

For just as the human body is one whole, and yet has many parts, and all its parts, many though they are, form but one body, so it is with the Christ;


rate difficulty: for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers--especially they of the circumcision--

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


rate difficulty: If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

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


simplify: But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab got free from the authority of the king of Israel.


simplify: But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place.


rate difficulty: And Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the Lord, that he had done for Israel.

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


simplify: And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the ear-rings of his spoil.

And they gave answer, We will gladly give them. So they put down a robe, every man dropping into it the ear-rings he had taken.


rate difficulty: In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.

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


simplify: For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

For to me life is Christ and death is profit.


rate difficulty: And all the company send, and speak, unto the sons of Benjamin who <FI>are<Fi> in the rock Rimmon, and proclaim to them peace;

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


simplify: `I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is coming--the Almighty.'

‘I am the Alpha and the Omega,’says the Lord, the God who is, and who was, and who will be, the Almighty.


simplify: Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

Surely you know that, when you offer yourselves as servants, to obey anyone, you are the servants of the person whom you obey, whether the service be a service sin which leads to death, or a service Duty which leads to righteousness.


rate difficulty: And on its pillar, four cups like almond flowers, every one with its bud and its flower;

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


simplify: For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

Once you were straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.


simplify: Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

Come to me, all you who go by! Keep your eyes on me, and see if there is any pain like the pain of my wound, which the Lord has sent on me in the day of his burning wrath.


simplify: If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one also that doeth righteousness is begotten of him.

If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.


simplify: For thou, O my God, hast told thy servant that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy servant hath found in his heart to pray before thee.

For you, O my God, have let your servant see that you will make him head of a line of kings; and so it has come into your servant's heart to make his prayer to you.


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

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


simplify: Over the first course for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

Over the first division for the first month was Ishbaal, the son of Zabdiel; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.


rate difficulty: a son of forty years <FI>am<Fi> I in Moses, servant of Jehovah, sending me from Kadesh-Barnea, to spy the land, and I bring him back word as with my heart;

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


rate difficulty: Now John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather band about him; and his food was locusts and honey.


simplify: Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress.

Go, send up your cry for help to the gods of your selection; let them be your saviours in the time of your trouble.


simplify: And he said, I am Abraham’s servant.


simplify: And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the damsel’s father said, Strengthen thy heart, I pray thee, and tarry ye until the day declineth; and they did eat, both of them.

Then early on the morning of the fifth day he got up to go away; but the girl's father said, Keep up your strength; so the two of them had a meal, and the man and his woman and his servant did not go till after the middle of the day.


rate difficulty: Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:


rate difficulty: And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

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


rate difficulty: until you are able to appreciate all moral distinctions. And I pray, too, that you may be kept pure and blameless against the day of Christ,

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


simplify: and Gedor, and Ahio, and Zecher.

And Gedor and Ahio and Zechariah and Mikloth.


simplify: And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?

And David said, What have I done now? was it not only a word?


simplify: Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat of it, as his portion for ever throughout your generations, from the offerings of Jehovah made by fire: whosoever toucheth them shall be holy.

Every male among the children of Aaron may have it for food; it is their right for ever through all your generations, from the offerings made by fire to the Lord: anyone touching them will be holy.


simplify: And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father.

And while he was coming, he was pushed violently down and twisted by the evil spirit. But Jesus gave sharp orders to the unclean spirit, and made the boy well, and gave him back to his father.


rate difficulty: Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.

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


simplify: For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Cesar.

If, however, I am breaking the law and have committed any offense deserving death, I do not ask to escape the penalty; but, if there is nothing in the accusations of these people, no one has the power to give me up to them. I appeal to the Emperor.”


simplify: Which Shelomith and his brethren were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the chief fathers, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had dedicated.

Shelomoth and his brothers were responsible for all the store of holy things which David the king and the heads of families, the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and the captains of the army, had given to the Lord.


simplify: And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them,

Observing that the guests were choosing the best places for themselves, Jesus told them this parable —


rate difficulty: Blessed is the person who remains firm under temptation, for, when they have stood the test, they will receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those who love him.

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


simplify: And he said, Nay; but as prince of the host of Jehovah am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?

And he said, No; but I have come as captain of the armies of the Lord. Then Joshua, falling down with his face to the earth in worship, said, What has my lord to say to his servant?


simplify: And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.

‘If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets,’ answered Abraham, ‘they will not be persuaded, even if some one were to rise from the dead.’”


simplify: Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Then will the righteous shine, like the sun, in the kingdom of their Father. Let him who has ears hear.


simplify: I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back; bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth;

I will say to the north, Give them up; and to the south, Do not keep them back; send back my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth;


rate difficulty: As to the likeness of the living creatures, their appearances <FI>are<Fi> as coals of fire--burning as the appearance of lamps; it is going up and down between the living creatures, and brightness <FI>is<Fi> to the fire, and out of the fire is going forth lightning.


rate difficulty: And ye shall sacrifice one buck of the goats for a sin-offering, and two he-lambs, yearlings, for a sacrifice of peace-offering.

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


simplify: Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not:

So Herodias was incensed against John, and wanted to put him to death, but was unable to do so,


simplify: And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:

But he said, I may not go back with you or go into your house; and I will not take food or a drink of water with you in this place;


rate difficulty: Where is the way to where light dwelleth? and the darkness, where is its place,

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


rate difficulty: Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all countries, destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?

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


rate difficulty: And Jehu goeth in, and Jehonadab son of Rechab, to the house of Baal, and saith to the servants of Baal, `Search and see, lest there be here with you of the servants of Jehovah--but, the servants of Baal by themselves.'

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


rate difficulty: I say to you, Though he will not get up and give to him, because he is his friend, still, if he keeps on making his request, he will get up and give him as much as he has need of.

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


simplify: and Hananiah, and Elam, and Anthothijah,


simplify: for John was saying to him, `It is not lawful to thee to have her,'

For John had said to him ‘You have no right to be living with her.’


rate difficulty: And he said to them, A certain man gave a great feast, and sent word of it to a number of people.

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


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

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


simplify: And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and shalt put water therein.

And let the washing-vessel, with water in it, be put between the Tent of meeting and the altar.


simplify: And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.

All the responsible men of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.


rate difficulty: And he said, `A certain man had two sons,

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


simplify: All these were of the sons of Obed-edom: they and their sons and their brethren, able men in strength for the service; threescore and two of Obed-edom.

All these were sons of Obed-edom: they and their sons and their brothers, able men and strong for the work; sixty-two sons of Obed-edom.


simplify: Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Be on the watch for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside they are cruel wolves.


rate difficulty: For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the Lord; and how much more after my death?

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


simplify: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

And whoever does not give ear to my words which he will say in my name, will be responsible to me.


rate difficulty: At the sound of his voice there is a massing of the waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain and sends out the wind from his store-houses.

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


simplify: Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord.

It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of Israel's sin against the Lord in the question of Peor, because of which disease came on the people of the Lord.


simplify: But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,

“In those days, after that time of distress, ‘the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give her light,


rate difficulty: And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not.

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


simplify: And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast.

And the wonder-workers with their secret arts, attempting to make insects, were unable to do so: and there were insects on man and on beast.


simplify: He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.


rate difficulty: The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.


rate difficulty: Ben-deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan;

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


simplify: Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon.

Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, What did these men say, and where did they come from? And Hezekiah said, They came from a far country, even from Babylon.


rate difficulty: He stood, and measured the earth; He beheld, and discomfited the nations; And the eternal mountains were scattered, The everlasting hills gave way: His ways are everlasting.

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


simplify: (And the Lord gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime.

(And the Lord gave Israel a saviour, so that they became free from the hands of the Aramaeans; and the children of Israel were living in their tents as in the past.


simplify: and if any one doth question you, Wherefore do ye loose <FI>it<Fi> ? thus ye shall say to him--The Lord hath need of it.'

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


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

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


simplify: For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.

For if I had a desire to take credit to myself, it would not be foolish, for I would be saying what is true: but I will not, for fear that I might seem to any man more than he sees me to be, or has word from me that I am.


rate difficulty: Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

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


rate difficulty: And I say, `What <FI>are<Fi> these, my lord?' And the messenger who is speaking with me saith unto me, `I--I do shew thee what these <FI>are<Fi> .'

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


simplify: The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.

The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites listed by the names of their fathers.


simplify: Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine.

So you are to make the Levites separate from the children of Israel, and the Levites will be mine.


rate difficulty: And Rabshakeh turneth back and findeth the king of Asshur fighting against Libnah, for he hath heard that he hath journeyed from Lachish.

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


simplify: Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide the siege in Jerusalem?

Sennacherib, king of Assyria, says, In what are you placing your hope, waiting here in the walled town of Jerusalem?


simplify: But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

But he made answer and said, I was sent only to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel.


rate difficulty: from twenty years and upward, all that go forth to military service in Israel: ye shall number them according to their hosts, thou and Aaron.

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


rate difficulty: and these things we write, that our joy may be made full.

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


simplify: And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus’ band.

And when the decision had been made that we were to go by sea to Italy, they gave Paul and certain other prisoners into the care of a captain named Julius, of the Augustan band.


simplify: From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the Lord. But the foundation of the temple of the Lord was not yet laid.

From the first day of the seventh month they made a start with the burned offerings, but the base of the Temple of the Lord had still not been put in its place.


rate difficulty: I fast twice in the week; I give tithes of all that I get.

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


rate difficulty: And he sent Eliakim, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the chief priests, dressed in haircloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.

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


rate difficulty: And Boaz was the father of Obed, and Obed was the father of Jesse,


simplify: And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest.

Saying, By my God, far be it from me to do this! How may I take as drink the life-blood of these men who have put their lives in danger? so he did not take it. These things did the three great men of war.


rate difficulty: And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


simplify: But what think ye? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to-day in the vineyard.

But how does it seem to you? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go and do work today in the vine-garden.


simplify: What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:

What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.


rate difficulty: but its inwards and its legs shall he wash with water. And the priest shall burn the whole on the altar, for a burnt-offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.

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


simplify: So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.

So the children of Benjamin saw that they were overcome: and the men of Israel had given way before Benjamin, putting their faith in the watchers who were to make the surprise attack on Gibeah.


rate difficulty: So much as she has glorified herself and lived luxuriously, so much torment and grief give to her. Because she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and I am not a widow; and I shall in no wise see grief:


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall become an overflowing stream, and shall overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and them that dwell therein; and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.

This is what the Lord has said: See, waters are coming up out of the north, and will become an overflowing stream, overflowing the land and everything in it, the town and those who are living in it; and men will give a cry, and all the people of the land will be crying out in pain.


rate difficulty: And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.

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


rate difficulty: It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.

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


simplify: It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:

It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is put in the earth, is smaller than all the seeds on the earth,


rate difficulty: Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

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


simplify: She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.

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


simplify: `Settle, then, to your hearts, not to meditate beforehand to reply,

Make up your minds, therefore, not to prepare your defense;


simplify: And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother.

And the dead man got up, and words came from his lips. And he gave him to his mother.


simplify: And Jesus came and touched them and said, Arise, and be not afraid.

And Jesus came and put his hand on them and said, Get up and have no fear.


simplify: And we are witnesses of these things; and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God hath given to them that obey him.

And we are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who keep his laws.


simplify: and the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets;

And the spirits of the prophets are controlled by the prophets;


simplify: Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

Because he so willed, he gave us life, through the message of the truth, so that we should be, as it were, an earnest of still further creations.


simplify: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

‘And their mouths are full of bitter curses.’


rate difficulty: And Jacob made an offering on the mountain, and gave orders to his people to take food: so they had a meal and took their rest that night on the mountain.

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


rate difficulty: Then he says to the man, Stretch out thy hand. And he stretched [it] out, and it was restored sound as the other.

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


simplify: And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we bid fire to come down from heaven, and consume them?

And when his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, Lord, may we send fire from heaven and put an end to them?


rate difficulty: A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will be cut off.

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


rate difficulty: And entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, arrayed in a white robe; and they were amazed.

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


simplify: And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as the Lord commanded Moses.

And the rings on the bag were fixed to the rings of the ephod by a blue cord, keeping it in place over the band, so that the bag might not get loose, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.


simplify: And Jesus said unto him, To-day is salvation come to this house, forasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham.

And Jesus said to him, Today salvation has come to this house, for even he is a son of Abraham.


simplify: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.  Written from Rome to Philemon, by Onesimus a servant.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. So be it.


simplify: and I have said to him, `Sir, thou hast known;' and he said to me, `These are those who are coming out of the great tribulation, and they did wash their robes, and they made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb;

‘My Lord,’ I answered, ‘it is you who know.’   ‘These,’ he said, ‘are they who come through the Great Persecution; they washed their robes white in the blood of the Lamb.


rate difficulty: Israel hath been saved in Jehovah, A salvation age-during! Ye are not ashamed nor confounded Unto the ages of eternity!

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


rate difficulty: to the carpenters and the builders and the masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

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


simplify: that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

so that the requirements of the law might be satisfied in us who live now in obedience, not to our earthly nature, but to the Spirit.


simplify: And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.

And I will have no mercy on her children, for they are the children of her loose ways.


rate difficulty: from whom the whole body, fitted together, and connected by every joint of supply, according to [the] working in [its] measure of each one part, works for itself the increase of the body to its self-building up in love.

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


simplify: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

so that God’s people may be capable and equipped for good work of every kind.


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thy hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valor.

And the Lord said to Joshua, See, I have given into your hands Jericho with its king and all its men of war.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul's daughter should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife.

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


rate difficulty: And Samuel speaketh all the words of Jehovah unto the people who are asking from him a king,

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


simplify: And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more.

But Balaam, in answer; said to the servants of Balak, Even if Balak gave me his house full of silver and gold, it would not be possible for me to do anything more or less than the orders of the Lord my God.


rate difficulty: Of sons of Gershom: Joel the chief, and his brethren, a hundred and thirty.

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


simplify: The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.


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

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


simplify: And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

But I will be the judge of that nation whose servants they are, and they will come out from among them with great wealth.


simplify: So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth.

So David went in flight and got away and came to Ramah, to Samuel, and gave him an account of all Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and were living in Naioth.


simplify: Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare raiment as the clay;

Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing;


rate difficulty: And they went out at noon; and Ben-Hadad drank himself drunk in the tents, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings that helped him.

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


simplify: Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

The same mighty power was exerted on the Christ, when he raised the Christ from the dead and ‘caused him to sit at his right hand’ on high, exalting him above all angels and archangels of every rank,


rate difficulty: Not so my servant Moses: he is faithful in all my house.

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


simplify: And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:

And there was a day when his sons and daughters were feasting in the house of their oldest brother,


rate difficulty: The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.

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


rate difficulty: And the priest shall make atonement for the whole assembly of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for it was a sin of inadvertence, and they have brought before Jehovah their offering, as an offering by fire to Jehovah, and their sin-offering for their [sin of] inadvertence;


simplify: Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God.

Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord God.


rate difficulty: Make use of that grace in you, which was given to you by the word of the prophets, when the rulers of the church put their hands on you.

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


simplify: Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord.

In addition to the burned offering of the new moon, and its meal offering, and the regular burned offering and its meal offering, and their drink offerings, as they are ordered, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.


rate difficulty: Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.

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


simplify: then in this wise came the maiden unto the king: Whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king’s house.

And in this way the girl went in to the king; whatever she had a desire for was given to her to take with her from the women's house into the house of the king.


rate difficulty: And some of the children of Israel went up, with some of the priests and the Levites and the music-makers and the door-keepers and the Nethinim, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

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


rate difficulty: And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

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


simplify: All these are the beginning of sorrows.

All this, however, will be but the beginning of the birth pangs!


simplify: He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.


simplify: Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.

Have, then, no fear of them: because nothing is covered which will not come to light, or secret which will not be made clear.


simplify: He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.

All the house was plated with gold, the supports, the steps, the walls and the doors; and the walls were ornamented with designs of winged ones.


rate difficulty: I will have the towns of your land cut off and all your strong places pulled down:


simplify: And of some, that Elias had appeared; and of others, that one of the old prophets was risen again.

And by some, that Elijah had come; and by others, that one of the old prophets had come back to life.


simplify: But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

But what I do, that I will go on doing, so that I may give no chance to those who are looking for one; so that, in the cause of their pride, they may be seen to be the same as we are.


simplify: And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the Lord,

Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem, because of their sin against the Lord,


simplify: And I saw one messenger standing in the sun, and he cried, a great voice, saying to all the birds that are flying in mid-heaven, `Come and be gathered together to the supper of the great God,

Then I saw an angel standing on the sun. He cried in a loud voice to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven — ‘Gather and come to the great feast of God,


rate difficulty: And the prophet Gad said to David, Do not go on living in this place but go into the land of Judah. Then David went away and came to the woodland of Hereth.

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


rate difficulty: And they came to Balaam and said, Balak, son of Zippor, says, Let nothing keep you from coming to me:

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


rate difficulty: And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh went over armed before the children of Israel as Moses had said to them:

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


rate difficulty: Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what we shall do.

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


rate difficulty: `And in feasts, and in appointed times, the present is an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for lambs the gift of his hand, and of oil a hin for an ephah.

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


simplify: while the Egyptians were burying all their first-born, whom Jehovah had smitten among them: upon their gods also Jehovah executed judgments.

While the Egyptians were placing in the earth the bodies of their sons on whom the Lord had sent destruction: and their gods had been judged by him.


simplify: And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah.

And it came about that after ten days the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah.


simplify: But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.

And on the seventh day he is to have all the hair cut off his head and his chin and over his eyes--all his hair is to be cut off--and he will have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and he will be clean.


simplify: to the saints and faithful brethren in Christthat areat Colossæ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.

To the saints and true brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou also shalt judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee a place of access among these that stand by.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: and Solomon doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and hath not been fully after Jehovah, like David his father.

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


simplify: And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.

Night and day alike, he was continually shrieking in the tombs and among the hills, and cutting himself with stones.


rate difficulty: And they took the boy in, living, and were greatly comforted.


simplify: and I thought to disclose it unto thee, saying, Buy it before them that sit here, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know; for there is none to redeem it besides thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.

And it was in my mind to give you the chance of taking it, with the approval of those seated here and of the responsible men of my people. If you are ready to do what it is right for a relation to do, then do it: but if you will not do it, say so to me now; for there is no one who has the right to do it but you, and after you myself. And he said, I will do it.


simplify: and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.

And the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite.


simplify: And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.

And the water went all round the altar, till the drain was full.


rate difficulty: And hast thou not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the priests? and it shall be, [that] whatsoever thing thou shalt hear out of the king's house, thou shalt tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.

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


rate difficulty: said with a loud voice, `Stand up on thy feet upright;' and he was springing and walking,

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


rate difficulty: Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Samuel the seer, and in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the history of Gad the seer,

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


rate difficulty: and therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli: the iniquity of the house of Eli is not atoned for, by sacrifice, and by offering--unto the age.'


rate difficulty: For we do not make bold to rank or to compare ourselves with certain of those commending themselves, but they, among themselves measuring themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise,

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Again, ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:

Now at last I can rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf, and in my own person I supplement the afflictions endured by the Christ, for the sake of his body, the church;


rate difficulty: Finally, [be] all of one mind, sympathising, full of brotherly love, tender hearted, humble minded;

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


simplify: `According to these things it shall be, in the day the Son of Man is revealed;

It will be the same on the day on which the Son of Man reveals himself.


simplify: and changed his prison garments. And Jehoiachin did eat bread before him continually all the days of his life:

And his prison clothing was changed, and he was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest of his life.


simplify: My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.

If by chance my father puts his hand on me, it will seem to him that I am tricking him, and he will put a curse on me in place of a blessing.


rate difficulty: Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,


simplify: Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.

Who was with the ruler, Sergius Paulus, an able man. This man sent for Barnabas and Saul, desiring to have knowledge of the word of God.


rate difficulty: As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, Galgal.

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


rate difficulty: But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.


simplify: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

Do not give way to him but be strong in your faith, in the knowledge that your brothers who are in the world undergo the same troubles.


simplify: And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.

And all the people gave attention to the words which Philip said, when they saw the signs which he did.


simplify: My son, eat thou honey, for it is good; And the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to thy taste:

My son, take honey, for it is good; and the flowing honey, which is sweet to your taste:


rate difficulty: And Jehovah shall be known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians shall know Jehovah in that day, and shall serve with sacrifice and oblation; and they shall vow a vow unto Jehovah, and perform it.

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


simplify: And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

And when the hand of the angel was stretched out in the direction of Jerusalem, for its destruction, the Lord had regret for the evil, and said to the angel who was sending destruction on the people, It is enough; do no more. And the angel of the Lord was by the grain-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.


rate difficulty: And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.

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


simplify: And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:

And the older daughter said to her sister, Our father is old, and there is no man to be a husband to us in the natural way:


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

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


simplify: And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.

They came to the other side of the Sea — the country of the Gerasenes;


rate difficulty: and she maketh him sleep on her knees, and calleth for a man, and shaveth the seven locks of his head, and beginneth to afflict him, and his power turneth aside from off him;

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


rate difficulty: The fear of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> the instruction of wisdom, And before honour <FI>is<Fi> humility!


simplify: Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.

Let your talk be with grace, mixed with salt, so that you may be able to give an answer to everyone.


rate difficulty: And he maketh ten lavers, and putteth five on the right, and five on the left, to wash with them; the work of the burnt-offering they purge with them; and the sea <FI>is<Fi> for priests to wash with.

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


simplify: And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.

And he said, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then the Lord said to me, The end has come to my people Israel; never again will my eyes be shut to their sin.


rate difficulty: And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and ye shall be my people, and I will be yourGod.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: easy


simplify: In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

Moving me to wrath with the work of your hands, burning perfumes to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to make a place for yourselves, so that you may become a curse and a name of shame among all the nations of the earth?


simplify: Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

They were undiscerning, untrustworthy, without natural affection or pity.


rate difficulty: Wherefore also, having been sent for, I came without saying anything against it. I inquire therefore for what reason ye have sent for me.

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


simplify: And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith Jehovah.

And some of your sons I made prophets, and some of your young men I made separate for myself. Is it not even so, O children of Israel? says the Lord.


simplify: Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of the rebellious house, that have eyes to see, and see not, that have ears to hear, and hear not; for they are a rebellious house.

Son of man, you are living among an uncontrolled people, who have eyes to see but see not, and ears for hearing but they do not give ear; for they are an uncontrolled people.


rate difficulty: And at midnight Paul and Silas praying, were singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were hearing them,

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


simplify: In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.

In that day this saying will be said about you, and this song of grief will be made: The heritage of my people is measured out, and there is no one to give it back; those who have made us prisoners have taken our fields from us, and complete destruction has come to us.


rate difficulty: They are joined one to another; They stick together, so that they cannot be sundered.

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


rate difficulty: And all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, according to their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, all that went forth to military service in Israel,

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


simplify: And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.

And they will see his face; and his name will be on their brows.


simplify: And the Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of Jehovah filled the house.

And the spirit, lifting me up, took me into the inner square; and I saw that the house was full of the glory of the Lord.


simplify: And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thy hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Ye shall surely drink.

And it will be, if they will not take of the cup in your hand, then you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies has said: You will certainly take of it.


simplify: And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.

And you are to keep this as an order to you and to your sons for ever.


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

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


rate difficulty: While Jews ask for miraculous signs, and Greeks study philosophy,

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


simplify: And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

With their forty silver bases, two under every board.


simplify: And Saul--who also <FI>is<Fi> Paul--having been filled with the Holy Spirit, and having looked stedfastly on him,

However, Saul (who is the same as Paul), full of the Holy Spirit, fixed his eyes on him and said:


simplify: And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.

And the heaven over your heads will be brass, and the earth under you hard as iron.


simplify: A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

One who gives false witness against his neighbour is a hammer and a sword and a sharp arrow.


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

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


rate difficulty: I have loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob,

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


rate difficulty: `And thou hast made the staves of shittim wood, and hast overlaid them with gold;

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


simplify: and immediately, having come to Jesus, he said, `Hail, Rabbi,' and kissed him;

So he went up to Jesus at once, and exclaimed: “Welcome, Rabbi!” and kissed him;


simplify: And that in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it fast, and bring forth fruit with patience.

And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.


rate difficulty: Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.


rate difficulty: Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,


rate difficulty: There shall no mischief happen to the righteous; But the wicked shall be filled with evil.


rate difficulty: And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)

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


simplify: And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.

He was accompanied by Sopater the son of Pyrrhus, of Beroea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, as well as by Tychicus and Trophimus of Roman Asia.


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.

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


simplify: And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.

“salvation has come to this house today,”answered Jesus, “for even this man is a son of Abraham.


simplify: And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, and he called his name Abimelech.

And the servant-wife he had in Shechem had a son by him, to whom he gave the name Abimelech.


simplify: According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.

If the number of years is great, the price will be increased, and if the number of years is small, the price will be less, for it is the produce of a certain number of years which the man is giving you.


simplify: And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.

And there were a number of lights in the room where we had come together.


simplify: Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?

Or who has first given to him, so that he may claim a reward?’


simplify: Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all unclean things.


simplify: the finely wrought garments, for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office.

The robes of needlework for the work of the holy place, the holy robes for Aaron the priest, and the robes for his sons when acting as priests.


simplify: Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof:

So Jesus went with them. But, when he was no great distance from the house, the captain sent some friends with the message — “Do not trouble yourself, Sir; for I am unworthy to receive you under my roof.


rate difficulty: I robbed other churches, taking wages of them that I might minister unto you;

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


simplify: And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of Jehovah, unto this day, in the place which he should choose.

And that day Joshua made them servants, cutting wood and getting water for the people and for the altar of the Lord, in the place marked out by him, to this day.


simplify: And Jehovah God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins, and clothed them.

And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins for their clothing.


simplify: And when a man or a woman hath in the skin of the flesh bright spots, even white bright spots;

And if a man or a woman has bright marks on the skin of their flesh, that is, bright white marks,


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

In the evening Jesus took his place with the twelve disciples,


rate difficulty: `And concerning the rising again of the dead, did ye not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,

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


simplify: Then Herod, having seen that he was deceived by the mages, was very wroth, and having sent forth, he slew all the male children in Beth-Lehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time that he inquired exactly from the mages.

When Herod found out that the astrologers had tricked him, he flew into a rage. He sent and put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and the whole of that neighborhood, who were two years old or under, guided by the date which he had learned from the astrologers.


simplify: and this one, being a daughter of Abraham, whom the Adversary bound, lo, eighteen years, did it not behove to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath-day?'

But this woman, a daughter of Abraham, who has been kept in bondage by Satan for now eighteen years, ought not she to have been released from her bondage on the Sabbath?”


simplify: Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.

When it was full, they took it up on the sands; and seated there they put the good into vessels, but the bad they put away.


rate difficulty: And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by En–rogel, and called all his brethren the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah the king’s servants:

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith’s son unto the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the gate Miphkad, and to the going up of the corner.

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


simplify: And let the prophets speak by two or three, and let the others discern.

And let the prophets give their words, but not more than two or three, and let the others be judges of what they say.


simplify: And he built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams.

And the inner space was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards.


rate difficulty: Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith;

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


rate difficulty: 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 he turned many from iniquity.

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


rate difficulty: And they swore to Jehovah with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

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


simplify: And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.

And all those to whose ears it came were full of wonder at the things said by the keepers of the sheep.


simplify: Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?

And have not you read in the law that, on the Sabbath, the priest in the Temple break the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?


simplify: But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;

But this is the thing which was said by the prophet Joel;


simplify: And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand.

And I will make Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his war-carriages and his forces, come against you at the river Kishon, where I will give him into your hands.


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

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


simplify: To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?

Doing the orders of the Lord and keeping his laws which I give you this day for your good?


rate difficulty: And king Solomon sweareth by Jehovah, saying, `Thus doth God to me, and thus He doth add--surely against his soul hath Adonijah spoken this word;

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


rate difficulty: The Lord hath been as an enemy, He hath swallowed up Israel, He hath swallowed up all her palaces, He hath destroyed His fortresses, And He multiplieth in the daughter of Judah Mourning and moaning.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And the king of Asshur bringeth in from Babylon and from Cutha, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and causeth <FI>them<Fi> to dwell in the cities of Samaria instead of the sons of Israel, and they possess Samaria, and dwell in its cities;

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


simplify: And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead.

But if, on his head or on his brow, where he has no hair, there is a red and white place, it is the disease of the leper coming out on his head or on his brow.


rate difficulty: She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.


rate difficulty: Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

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


rate difficulty: who may not receive back manifold more in this time, and in the coming age, life age-during.'

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


simplify: Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.

Now if we put bits of iron into horses' mouths so that they may be guided by us, we have complete control of their bodies.


simplify: And he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

And he put out Zedekiah's eyes; and the king of Babylon, chaining him in iron bands, took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.


rate difficulty: The man of pride, lifted up in soul, is named high-hearted; he is acting in an outburst of pride.

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


rate difficulty: Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the foreign gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments:

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


simplify: Was Jehovah displeased with the rivers? Was thine anger against the rivers, Or thy wrath against the sea, That thou didst ride upon thy horses, Upon thy chariots of salvation?

Was your wrath burning against the rivers? were you angry with the sea, that you went on your horses, on your war-carriages of salvation?


simplify: Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And stripes for the back of fools.

Rods are being made ready for the man of pride, and blows for the back of the foolish.


simplify: If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

If the foot says, Because I am not the hand, I am not a part of the body; it is no less a part of the body.


rate difficulty: And the Philistines, when they went in flight, did not take their images with them, and David and his men took them away.

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


rate difficulty: (There are eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh–barnea.)

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


rate difficulty: And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.

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


simplify: For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered, from twenty years old and upward.

So among the last acts of David was the numbering of the sons of Levi, from twenty years old and over.


simplify: And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

Then from the waste land of Kedemoth I sent representatives to Sihon, king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying,


simplify: And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the law:

And we, the priests and the Levites and the people, made selection, by the decision of the Lord, of those who were to take the wood offering into the house of God, by families at the regular times, year by year, to be burned on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is recorded in the law;


simplify: Of a truth I say unto you, that he will set him over all that he hath.

Truly I say to you, he will put him in control of all his goods.


simplify: Thoughhandjoinin hand, the evil man shall not be unpunished; But the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

Certainly the evil-doer will not go free from punishment, but the seed of the upright man will be safe.