simplify: This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy:

This bread which we have with us for our food, we took warm and new from our houses when starting on our journey to you; but now see, it has become dry and broken up.


simplify: And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.


simplify: For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon; and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.

For, starting his journey from Babylon on the first day of the first month, he came to Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month, by the good help of his God.


simplify: And Jesus went forth, and his disciples, into the villages of Cæsarea Philippi: and on the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Who do men say that I am?

And Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the little towns round Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he put a question to his disciples, saying, Who do men say that I am?


rate difficulty: And she took the pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, Have out all men from me. And they went out every man from him.

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


rate difficulty: The marks of the true apostle were exhibited among you in constant endurance, as well as by signs, by marvels, and by miracles.

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


simplify: Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,

Eliahba the Shaalbonite, Jashen the Gunite,


rate difficulty: He poureth contempt upon nobles, and slackeneth the girdle of the mighty;

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


rate difficulty: and he shall split it open at its wings, [but] shall not divide [it] asunder; and the priest shall burn it on the altar on the wood that is on the fire: it is a burnt-offering, an offering by fire to Jehovah of a sweet odour.


rate difficulty: But I will not say anything about my needs, for I am able, wherever I am, to be dependent on myself.

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


simplify: Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.

Let your thoughts be turned to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth: for when he was but one, my voice came to him, and I gave him my blessing, and made him a great people.


rate difficulty: And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the Lord said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace.

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


rate difficulty: And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered him.

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


rate difficulty: This is the law of the sore of leprosy in a garment of wool or linen, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, to cleanse it, or to pronounce it unclean.

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


simplify: Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

Then will the upright make answer to him, saying, Lord, when did we see you in need of food, and give it to you? or in need of drink, and give it to you?


simplify: And they gave them drink in vessels of gold (the vessels being diverse one from another), and royal wine in abundance, according to the bounty of the king.

And they gave them drink in gold vessels, every vessel being different, and wine of the kingdom, freely given by the king.


simplify: For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

For God said — ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and ‘Let him who abuses his father or mother suffer death,’


rate difficulty: And immediately--while he is yet speaking--cometh near Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude, with swords and sticks, from the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders;

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


rate difficulty: I have surely built thee a house of habitation, a place for thee to dwell in for ever.

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


simplify: And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord:

and those who led the way, as well as those who followed, kept shouting: “‘God save him! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’


rate difficulty: His winnowing-fan is in his hand so that he may clear his threshing-floor, and store the grain in his barn, but the chaff he will burn with a fire that cannot be put out.”


simplify: The eighth to Jeshaiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

The eighth Jeshaiah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;


rate difficulty: and gathered together before him shall be all the nations, and he shall separate them from one another, as the shepherd doth separate the sheep from the goats,

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


rate difficulty: So now, before the eyes of all Israel, the people of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, keep and be true to the orders of the Lord your God; so that you may have this good land for yourselves and give it for a heritage to your children after you for ever.

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


rate difficulty: And now the light is not seen, for it is dark because of the clouds; but a wind comes, clearing them away.

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


simplify: It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?

They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;


rate difficulty: And a certain priest happened to go down that way, and seeing him, passed on on the opposite side;

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


simplify: Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

For this cause I am full of bitter grief; pains like the pains of a woman in childbirth have come on me: I am bent down with sorrow at what comes to my ears; I am shocked by what I see.


rate difficulty: And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.


simplify: Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.

And Jehoash was seven years old when he became king.


simplify: And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left.

And at meal-time Boaz said to her, Come here, and take some of the bread, and put your bit into the wine. And she took her seat among the grain-cutters: and he gave her dry grain, and she took it, and there was more than enough for her meal.


simplify: For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Truly I say to you, Till heaven and earth come to an end, not the smallest letter or part of a letter will in any way be taken from the law, till all things are done.


simplify: Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite,

Eluzai and Jerimoth and Bealiah and Shemariah and Shephatiah the Haruphite;


simplify: There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

There is a thing which is to no purpose done on the earth: that there are good men to whom is given the same punishment as those who are evil, and there are evil men who get the reward of the good. I say that this again is to no purpose.


simplify: Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; Yea, many shall make suit unto thee.

Sleeping with no fear of danger; and men will be desiring to have grace in your eyes;


rate difficulty: The Lord will have no mercy on him, but the wrath of the Lord will be burning against that man, and all the curses recorded in this book will be waiting for him, and the Lord will take away his name completely from the earth.

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


simplify: Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the Lord in the ears of the people in the Lord’s house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.

So you are to go, reading there from the book, which you have taken down from my mouth, the words of the Lord, in the hearing of the people in the Lord's house, on a day when they go without food, and in the hearing of all the men of Judah who have come out from their towns.


simplify: When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:

For when it came to their ears, men said that I was truly happy; and when their eyes saw, they gave witness to me;


rate difficulty: `Thou hast known David my father, that he hath not been able to build a house to the name of Jehovah his God, because of the wars that have been round about him, till Jehovah's putting them under the soles of his feet.

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


simplify: If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it become holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

If anyone has some holy flesh folded in the skirt of his robe, will bread or soup or wine or oil or any other food be made holy if touched by his skirt? And the priests answering said, No.


rate difficulty: The lamp of the body is the eye; if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body will be light:

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


simplify: Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.

Give ear to me then, my sons: for happy are those who keep my ways.


rate difficulty: He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give of the fruit of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.

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


simplify: Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.

Then comes the end, when he will give up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have put an end to all rule and to all authority and power.


rate difficulty: On the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark;

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


simplify: And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.

Then all the men of the town gave ear to the words of Hamor and Shechem his son; and every male in the town underwent circumcision.


rate difficulty: And David's young men came, and spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.

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


rate difficulty: All the fowl of the heavens made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all the great nations.

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


rate difficulty: if he be able to fight with me, and have smitten me, then we have been to you for servants; and if I am able for him, and have smitten him, then ye have been to us for servants, and have served us.'

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


rate difficulty: And ye shall observe all my statutes, and all mine ordinances, and do them, that the land whither I bring you to dwell therein vomit you not out.

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


simplify: Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, We will hear thee concerning this yet again.

Now on hearing about the coming back from death, some of them made sport of it, but others said, Let us go more fully into this another time.


rate difficulty: There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

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


simplify: unto which promise our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God night and day, hope to attain. And concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, O king!

For the effecting of which our twelve tribes have been working and waiting night and day with all their hearts. And in connection with this hope I am attacked by the Jews, O king!


rate difficulty: For the fitches are not threshed with a sharp threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

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


rate difficulty: No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.


simplify: And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.

And you went to Melech with oil and much perfume, and you sent your representatives far off, and went as low as the underworld.


simplify: And they set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle was the first row;

And on it they put four lines of stones: in the first line was a carnelian, a chrysolite, and an emerald;


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up in the assembly unto Jehovah? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up unto Jehovah to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death.

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


simplify: And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days;

And when Moses' hand was stretched out, dark night came over all the land of Egypt for three days;


rate difficulty: When the wicked are increased, transgression increaseth; But the righteous shall look upon their fall.

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


rate difficulty: I remind you, friends, that the good news which I told is no mere human invention.

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


rate difficulty: As to the congregation, there shall be one statute for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an everlasting statute throughout your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be, before Jehovah.


simplify: And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.

And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph: is my father still living? But his brothers were not able to give him an answer for they were troubled before him.


rate difficulty: And David said to Abner, Art not thou a man? and who is like to thee in Israel? and why hast thou not guarded thy lord the king? for one of the people came in to destroy the king thy lord.

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


simplify: and Judah begat Perez and Zerah of Tamar; and Perez begat Hezron; and Hezron begat Ram;

And the sons of Judah were Perez and Zerah by Tamar; and the son of Perez was Hezron; and the son of Hezron was Ram;


rate difficulty: And he said to them, No, but you have come to see how poor the land is.

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


rate difficulty: so that Jehovah could not longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

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


rate difficulty: And Elihu hath waited earnestly beside Job with words, for they are older than he in days.

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


simplify: I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.

I say to you, In that night there will be two men sleeping in one bed, and one will be taken away and the other let go.


simplify: And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.

And if a woman has a flow of blood from her body, she will have to be kept separate for seven days, and anyone touching her will be unclean till evening.


simplify: And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me.

And those who were with me saw the light, but the voice of him who was talking to me came not to their ears.


rate difficulty: He entereth into peace; they rest in their beds, each one that walketh in his uprightness.

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


simplify: And Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Col–hozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of Shiloni.

And Maaseiah, the son of Baruch, the son of Col-hozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of the Shilonite.


simplify: And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.

And he said to them, Go into all the world, and give the good news to everyone.


rate difficulty: At that time, an affirmation of Jehovah, They bring the bones of the kings of Judah, And the bones of its princes, And the bones of the priests, And the bones of the prophets, And the bones of inhabitants of Jerusalem, Out of their graves,

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


simplify: Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.

Saying, Truly, their substance is cut off, and their wealth is food for the fire.


rate difficulty: for all, out of their abundance, put in, but she, out of her want, all that she had put in--all her living.'

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


simplify: But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet:

But he, answering, said to them, An evil and false generation is looking for a sign; and no sign will be given to it but the sign of the prophet Jonah:


simplify: And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

And about the eleventh hour he went out and saw others doing nothing; and he says to them, Why are you here all the day doing nothing?


rate difficulty: And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.

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


simplify: For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men,

For the loving kindness of God has been revealed, bringing salvation for all;


simplify: And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.

arrested the apostles, and had them placed in custody.


simplify: Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?

O you foolish ones! did not he who made the outside in the same way make the inside?


simplify: And from thence we made a circuit, and arrived at Rhegium: and after one day a south wind sprang up, and on the second day we came to Puteoli;

And from there, going about in a curve, we came to Rhegium: and after one day a south wind came up and on the day after we came to Puteoli:


rate difficulty: Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.

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


simplify: And the Lord delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the Lord spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

And the Lord gave me the two stones with writing on them done by the finger of God: on them were recorded all the words which the Lord said to you on the mountain out of the heart of the fire, on the day of the great meeting.


simplify: For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

For the Lord is coming out of his place to send punishment on the people of the earth for their evil-doing: the earth will let the blood drained out on her be seen, and will keep her dead covered no longer.


rate difficulty: `And my lord causeth me to swear, saying, Thou dost not take a wife to my son from the daughters of the Canaanite, in whose land I am dwelling.

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


simplify: the <FI>son<Fi> of Eli, the <FI>son<Fi> of Matthat, the <FI>son<Fi> of Levi, the <FI>son<Fi> of Melchi, the <FI>son<Fi> of Janna, the <FI>son<Fi> of Joseph,


rate difficulty: And now ye are cursed, and ye shall never cease to be bondmen, and hewers of wood, and drawers of water for the house of myGod.

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


rate difficulty: if ye have heard him and been instructed in him according as [the] truth is in Jesus;

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


simplify: And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,

And I will give the men who have gone against my agreement and have not given effect to the words of the agreement which they made before me, when the ox was cut in two and they went between the parts of it,


simplify: and as he is yet coming near, the demon rent him, and tore <FI>him<Fi> sore, and Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the youth, and gave him back to his father.

While the boy was coming up to Jesus, the demon dashed him down and threw him into convulsions. But Jesus rebuked the foul spirit, and cured the boy, and gave him back to his father.


rate difficulty: And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went before them: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should happen unto him,


simplify: if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that <FI>is<Fi> under the heaven, of which I became--I Paul--a ministrant.

if only you remain true to your faith, firm and immovable, never abandoning the hope held out in the good news to which you listened, which has been proclaimed among all created things under heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister.


simplify: Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.

What has become then, of your blessings? For I can bear witness that, had it been possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me!


rate difficulty: And Judah will be the Lord's heritage in the holy land, and Jerusalem will again be his.

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


simplify: Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.

while they had found the goal barred securely and the guards posted at the doors, yet, on opening them, they had not found anyone inside.


rate difficulty: But you will have power, when the Holy Spirit has come on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judaea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

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


simplify: My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth.


simplify: And these are the sons of Aholibamah Esau’s wife; duke Jeush, duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these were the dukes that came of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau’s wife.

And these are the sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah: Jeush, Jalam, and Korah: these were the chiefs who came from Esau's wife Oholibamah, daughter of Anah.


rate difficulty: And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.


simplify: His disciples say to him, `If the case of the man with the woman is so, it is not good to marry.'

“If that,” said the disciples, “is the position of a man with regard to his wife, it is better not to marry.”


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

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


simplify: And Saul said, Bring hither the burnt-offering to me, and the peace-offerings. And he offered the burnt-offering.

Then Saul said, Come here and give me the burned offering and the peace-offerings. And he made a burned offering to the Lord.


simplify: It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.

It is he who makes his rooms in the heaven, basing his arch on the earth; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, and sends them flowing over the face of the earth; the Lord is his name.


simplify: And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god: either he is musing, or he is gone aside, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked.

And in the middle of the day, Elijah made sport of them, saying, Give louder cries, for he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or he may have gone away for some purpose, or he may be on a journey, or by chance he is sleeping and has to be made awake.


rate difficulty: “It is a wicked and unfaithful generation,” answered Jesus, “that is asking for a sign, and no sign will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

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


simplify: And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein; only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of Jehovah.

Then, after burning up the town and everything in it, they put the silver and gold and the vessels of brass and iron into the store-house of the Lord's house.


simplify: for this is my blood of the new covenant, that for many is being poured out--to remission of sins;

for this is my covenant blood, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.


simplify: Now therefore arise, O Lord God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.

Up! now, O Lord God, come back to your resting-place, you and the ark of your strength: let your priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints be glad in what is good.


simplify: And there was a young man out of Beth–lehem–judah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.

Now there was a young man living in Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah and a Levite, who was not a townsman of the place.


simplify: he saith to them, `Withdraw, for the damsel did not die, but doth sleep,' and they were deriding him;

he said: “Go away, the little girl is not dead; she is asleep.” They began to laugh at him;


simplify: And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but they went forward smiting the Moabites, even in their country.

But when they came to the tents of Israel, the Israelites came out and made a violent attack on the Moabites, so that they went in flight before them; and they went forward still attacking them;


simplify: But there is a spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

But truly it is the spirit in man, even the breath of the Ruler of all, which gives them knowledge.


rate difficulty: You are to say, Your servants have been keepers of cattle from our early days up to now, like our fathers; in this way you will be able to have the land of Goshen for yourselves; because keepers of sheep are unclean in the eyes of the Egyptians.


simplify: Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long.

Have no envy of sinners in your heart, but keep in the fear of the Lord all through the day;


rate difficulty: And from there he went up against the people of Debir. (Now the name of Debir in earlier times was Kiriath-sepher.)

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simplify: The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding Shall rest in the assembly of the dead.

The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,


simplify: But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye have revived your thought for me; wherein ye did indeed take thought, but ye lacked opportunity.

But I am very glad in the Lord that your care for me has come to life again; though you did in fact take thought for me, but you were not able to give effect to it.


rate difficulty: As God is true, our word to you is not Yes and No.

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rate difficulty: And the sons of the removal do so, and Ezra the priest, <FI>and<Fi> men, heads of the fathers, for the house of their fathers, are separated, even all of them by name, and they sit on the first day of the tenth month, to examine the matter;

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


simplify: But so much the more went abroad the report concerning him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed of their infirmities.

But news of him went out all the more, in every direction, and great numbers of people came together to give hearing to his words and to be made well from their diseases.


simplify: And the hangings of the court, and the curtain for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and the cords of it for all the service thereof.

And the hangings for the open space round the House and the altar, and the curtain for its doorway, and all the cords needed for its use.


simplify: And the staves thereof shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, in bearing it.

And put the rods through the rings at the two opposite sides of the altar, for lifting it.


simplify: because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.

Because they said, He has an unclean spirit.


rate difficulty: And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.

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


simplify: Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.

Then they put their hands on them, and the Holy Spirit came on them.


simplify: And the priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.

Then the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod and the family gods and the pictured image and went with the people.


simplify: and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before Jehovah, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,

Every armed man of you going across Jordan before the Lord till he has overcome and sent in flight all who are against him,


simplify: And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.

And David said to his men, Put on your swords, every one of you. And every man put on his sword; and David did the same; and about four hundred men went up with David, and two hundred kept watch over their goods.


simplify: Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, to thee that addest thy venom, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

A curse on him who gives his neighbour the wine of his wrath, making him overcome with strong drink from the cup of his passion, so that you may be a witness of their shame!


simplify: Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

My loved ones, do not put your faith in every spirit, but put them to the test, to see if they are from God: because a great number of false prophets have gone out into the world.


rate difficulty: for Jehovah ourGod, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs before our eyes, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the peoples through whom we passed!

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


rate difficulty: and seeing Peter warming himself, having looked at him, says, And thou wast with the Nazarene, Jesus.

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


simplify: And David girded his sword upon his apparel, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him.

And David took Saul's sword and put the band round him over the metal coat, and was unable to go forward; for he was not used to them. Then David said to Saul, It is not possible for me to go out with these, for I am not used to them. So David took them off.


rate difficulty: and he spread it before me: and it was written within and without; and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.


simplify: And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur.

These are the names of those who are to be your helpers: from Reuben, Elizur, the son of Shedeur;


simplify: `And to the messenger of the assembly of Thyatira write: These things saith the Son of God, who is having his eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet like to fine brass;

To the angel of the church in Thyatira write: —  “These are the words of the Son of God, ‘whose eyes are like flaming fire, and whose feet are like brass’: —


simplify: Because thou hast plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder thee, because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all that dwell therein.

Because you have taken their goods from great nations, all the rest of the peoples will take your goods from you; because of men's blood and violent acts against the land and the town and all who are living in it.


simplify: It will be health to thy navel, And marrow to thy bones.

This will give strength to your flesh, and new life to your bones.


simplify: And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by skilful men, to be on the towers and upon the battlements, wherewith to shoot arrows and great stones. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.

And in Jerusalem he made machines, the invention of expert men, to be placed on the towers and angles of the walls for sending arrows and great stones. And his name was honoured far and wide; for he was greatly helped till he was strong.


rate difficulty: By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.

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


simplify: and the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

And I was dead, and see, I am living for ever, and I have the keys of death and of Hell.


simplify: The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,

The little owl and the great owl and the water-hen;


simplify: Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto Beth-el, and wept, and sat there before Jehovah, and fasted that day until even; and they offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before Jehovah.

Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up to Beth-el, weeping and waiting there before the Lord, going without food all day till evening, and offering burned offerings and peace-offerings before the Lord.


rate difficulty: And the authorities of the sons of Israel, whom the exactors of Pharaoh have placed over them, are beaten, saying, `Wherefore have ye not completed your portion in making brick as heretofore, both yesterday and to-day?'

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


rate difficulty: — he having gone to Pilate begged the body of Jesus;


rate difficulty: And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter. And he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the cliff Etam.

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


rate difficulty: Come together, make everyone come together, O nation without shame;

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


simplify: Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

Ho! crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim, and the dead flower of his glory which is on the head of those who are overcome by strong drink!


simplify: And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took the towns thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.

And Moses sent men secretly to Jazer, and they took its towns, driving out the Amorites who were living there.


rate difficulty: He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with wormwood.

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


simplify: And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

Then the four angels, that were held in readiness for that hour and day and month and year, were let loose, to destroy a third of mankind.


rate difficulty: And the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah; they judged in Beer-sheba.


simplify: Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness; break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Jehovah, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

Put in the seed of righteousness, get in your grain in mercy, let your unploughed earth be turned up: for it is time to make search for the Lord, till he comes and sends righteousness on you like rain.


rate difficulty: Who sends sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the walled town.

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


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

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


simplify: your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days!

Your gold and silver are rusted; and the rust on them will be evidence against you, and will eat into your flesh. It was fire, so to speak, that you stored up for yourselves in these last days.


simplify: He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

He takes away the wisdom of the rulers of the earth, and sends them wandering in a waste where there is no way.


simplify: if to others I am not an apostle--yet doubtless to you I am; for the seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord.

If I am not an apostle to others, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal that stamps me as an apostle in union with the Lord.


simplify: Hear us, my lord; thou art a prince of God among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.

My lord, truly you are a great chief among us; take the best of our resting-places for your dead; not one of us will keep back from you a place where you may put your dead to rest.


simplify: And the princes of the people dwelt in Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in theothercities.

And the rulers of the people were living in Jerusalem: the rest of the people made selection, by the decision of chance, of one out of every ten to be living in Jerusalem, the holy town; the other nine to go to the other towns.


simplify: And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

and placed herself behind Jesus, near his feet, weeping. Then she began to make his feet wet with her tears, and she dried them with the hair of her head, repeatedly kissing his feet and anointing them with the perfume.


simplify: where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

Where there is no Greek or Jew, no one with circumcision or without circumcision, no division between nations, no servant or free man: but Christ is all and in all.


simplify: The man, the lord of the land, spake roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.

The man who is the ruler of the country was rough with us and put us in prison, saying that we had come with a secret evil purpose.


simplify: And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.

And the three oldest sons of Jesse had gone with Saul to the fight: the names of the three who went to the fight were Eliab, the oldest, and Abinadab the second, and Shammah the third.


rate difficulty: Then will the feeble-footed be jumping like a roe, and the voice which was stopped will be loud in song: for in the waste land streams will be bursting out, and waters in the dry places.

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


simplify: Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,

By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,


simplify: And they removed from Haradah, and pitched in Makheloth.

And they went on from Haradah, and put up their tents in Makheloth.


simplify: He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

He has an over-high opinion of himself; being without knowledge, having only an unhealthy love of questionings and wars of words, from which come envy, fighting, cruel words, evil thoughts,


rate difficulty: for their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and its shrines ye cut down;

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rate difficulty: And they set forward from the mountain of Jehovah [and went] three days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting-place for them.

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


rate difficulty: Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

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


simplify: Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.

Then they said, What sin-offering are we to send to him? And they said, Five gold images of the growths caused by your disease and five gold mice, one for every lord of the Philistines: for the same disease came on you and on your lords.


simplify: Now there was there on the mountain side a great herd of swine feeding.

Now on the mountain side there was a great herd of pigs getting their food.


simplify: And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

And put on the new man, to which God has given life, in righteousness and a true and holy way of living.


simplify: And I, being perplexed how to inquire concerning these things, asked whether he would go to Jerusalem and there be judged of these matters.

And as I had not enough knowledge for the discussion of these things, I made the suggestion to him to go to Jerusalem and be judged there.


rate difficulty: Again, say to the children of Israel, If any man of the children of Israel, or any other man living in Israel, gives his offspring to Molech, he is certainly to be put to death: he is to be stoned by the people of the land;


rate difficulty: And the devil said unto him, To thee will I give all this authority, and the glory of them: for it hath been delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.

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


rate difficulty: Then stood up upon the stairs of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto Jehovah their God.

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


rate difficulty: and I saw, and lo, a pale horse, and he who is sitting upon him--his name is Death, and Hades doth follow with him, and there was given to them authority to kill, (over the fourth part of the land,) with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and by the beasts of the land.

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


simplify: because John, indeed, baptized with water, and ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit--after not many days.'

for, while John baptized with water, you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit before many days have passed.”


rate difficulty: then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;

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


simplify: And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

Then he went away from there, and made another water-hole, about which there was no fighting: so he gave it the name of Rehoboth, for he said, Now the Lord has made room for us, and we will have fruit in this land.


simplify: Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,

Now when the birth of Jesus took place in Beth-lehem of Judaea, in the days of Herod the king, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,


simplify: even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.

To get trees for me in great numbers, for the house which I am building is to be great and a wonder.


rate difficulty: And the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.

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


rate difficulty: And they answering say unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Where the body is, thither will the eagles also be gathered together.

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


rate difficulty: And this is the thing which thou shalt do to them to hallow them, that they may serve me as priests: take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish,

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


rate difficulty: and there were given to the woman two wings of the great eagle, that she may fly to the wilderness, to her place, where she is nourished a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent;

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


simplify: The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, that were carried away captive unto Babylon.

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him; for he had been put in chains, among all the prisoners of Jerusalem and Judah who were taken away prisoners to Babylon.


simplify: For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

For Jerusalem has become feeble, and destruction has come on Judah, because their words and their acts are against the Lord, moving the eyes of his glory to wrath.


rate difficulty: All that were numbered in the camp of Judah were an hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred, throughout their armies. These shall first set forth.

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


rate difficulty: And the families of Kiriath-jearim: The Ithrites, and the Puthites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.

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


simplify: There were hangings of white cloth, of green, and of blue, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the couches were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and white, and yellow, and black marble.

There were fair hangings of white and green and blue, fixed with cords of purple and the best linen to silver rings and pillars of polished stone: the seats were of gold and silver on a floor of red and white and yellow and black stone.


simplify: But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.

And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it might not be made unclean before the eyes of the nations among whom they were, and before whose eyes I gave them knowledge of myself, by taking them out of the land of Egypt.


simplify: For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

For on this day, in the town of David, a Saviour has come to birth, who is Christ the Lord.


rate difficulty: And Jonah got up to go in flight to Tarshish, away from the Lord; and he went down to Joppa, and saw there a ship going to Tarshish: so he gave them the price of the journey and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish, away from the Lord.


simplify: Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.

And it will come about that as it was my purpose to do to them, so I will do to you.


rate difficulty: And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,

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


simplify: And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt-offering, while I meet Jehovah yonder.

Then he said to Balak, Take your place here by your burned offering, while I go over there to the Lord.


simplify: Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.

Alas for you who are sated now, for you will hunger. Alas for you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.


simplify: And the Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison-house.

So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes; then they took him down to Gaza, and, chaining him with bands of brass, put him to work crushing grain in the prison-house.


simplify: Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.

Now a go-between is not a go-between of one; but God is one.


simplify: Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the fire of coals, and bringeth forth a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

See, I have made the iron-worker, blowing on the burning coals, and making the instrument of war by his work; and I have made the waster for destruction.


rate difficulty: Saul was...years old when he became king; and he reigned two years over Israel.

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


rate difficulty: But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.

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


simplify: And it was so, that, as oft as the king entered into the house of Jehovah, the guard came and bare them, and brought them back into the guard-chamber.

And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.


rate difficulty: Then Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, Send me David thy son, who is with the sheep.

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


rate difficulty: My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;


rate difficulty: But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing: for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.

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


rate difficulty: `And when the hand of a sojourner or settler with thee attaineth <FI>riches<Fi> , and thy brother with him hath become poor, and he hath been sold to a sojourner, a settler with thee, or to the root of the family of a sojourner,

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


rate difficulty: “Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers and sisters to set out for Galilee, and they will see me there.”

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


rate difficulty: Let each abide in that calling in which he has been called.

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


rate difficulty: A prudent man concealeth knowledge; but the heart of the foolish proclaimeth folly.

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


rate difficulty: And they say to the messengers who are coming, `Thus do ye say to the men of Jabesh-Gilead: To-morrow ye have safety--by the heat of the sun;' and the messengers come and declare to the men of Jabesh, and they rejoice;


simplify: And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.

And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which they have made unclean, will be like the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs perfumes have been burned to all the army of heaven, and drink offerings drained out to other gods.


simplify: And the priest shall set the woman before the Lord, and uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:

And he will make the woman come before the Lord with her hair loose, and will put the meal offering, the offering of a bitter spirit, in her hands; and the priest will take in his hand the bitter water causing the curse;


rate difficulty: For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not <FI>some<Fi> to stumble.

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


simplify: But king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before Jehovah for ever.

But a blessing will be on King Solomon, and the kingdom of David will keep its place before the Lord for ever.


rate difficulty: For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

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


rate difficulty: For there is nothing hidden which shall not be made manifest; nor does any secret thing take place, but that it should come to light.

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


rate difficulty: And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.

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


rate difficulty: And have made it for a possession of a bittern, And ponds of waters, And daubed it with the mire of destruction, The affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts!

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


rate difficulty: `Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, Though any man is unclean by a body or in a distant journey (of you or of your generations), yet he hath prepared a passover to Jehovah;

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.

And they all took food, and had enough; and they took up of the broken bits, seven baskets full.


rate difficulty: Whoso curseth his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

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


simplify: And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all.

When Paul had finished speaking, he knelt down and prayed with them all.


rate difficulty: And we took their land and gave it to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, for their heritage.

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


rate difficulty: The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

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


simplify: Salute you doth Epaphras, who <FI>is<Fi> of you, a servant of Christ, always striving for you in the prayers, that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God,

Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, sends you his greeting. He is a servant of Christ Jesus, and is always most earnest in your behalf in his prayers, praying that you may stand firm, with a matured faith and with a sure conviction of all that is in accordance with God’s will.


simplify: But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt offering unto the Lord; two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without blemish:

And you are to give an offering made by fire, a burned offering to the Lord; two oxen, one male sheep, and seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:


simplify: But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king’s house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.

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


rate difficulty: And sons of Jada, brother of Shammai: Jether, and Jonathan: and Jether dieth without sons.

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


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.

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


rate difficulty: `For Simeon--Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.

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


rate difficulty: And Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and of the sum of money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.

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


simplify: The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit Than seven men that can render a reason.

The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.


simplify: And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,

And my God put it into my heart to get together the rulers and the chiefs and the people so that they might be listed by families. And I came across a record of the names of those who came up at the first, and in it I saw these words:


simplify: And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, even of the first-fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.

And you are to keep the feast of weeks when you get in the first-fruits of the grain, and the feast at the turn of the year when you take in the produce of your fields.


rate difficulty: and his host, even those that were numbered of them, fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

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


simplify: Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Happy are you when men give you a bad name, and are cruel to you, and say all evil things against you falsely, because of me.


rate difficulty: Lord, you will give us peace: for all our works are the outcome of your purpose.


simplify: And he said unto them, Unto you is given the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all things are done in parables:

And he said to them, To you is given the secret of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are given in the form of stories;


rate difficulty: Behold, ye yourselves have all seen [it]; and why are ye thus altogether vain?

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


simplify: And, lo, Zadok alsocame, and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God; and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had done passing out of the city.

Then Zadok came, and Abiathar, and with them the ark of God's agreement: and they put down the ark of God, till all the people from the town had gone by.


simplify: Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

For my own sake I should like to keep him with me, so that, while I am in prison for the good news, he might attend to my wants on your behalf.


simplify: And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou shalt be to us instead of eyes.

And he said, Do not go from us; for you will be eyes for us, guiding us to the right places in the waste land to put up our tents.


rate difficulty: Now in those days the Philistines got their forces together to make war on Israel. And Achish said to David, Certainly you and your men are to go out with me to the fight.


rate difficulty: for no one can lay any other foundation than the one already laid — Jesus Christ.

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


rate difficulty: Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

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


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars and his ways, are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.


simplify: Gird up now thy loins like a man; For I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.


simplify: And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.

And he said, I myself will go with you and give you rest.


simplify: religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.

That religious observance which is pure and spotless in the eyes of God our Father is this — to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself uncontaminated by the world.


rate difficulty: And so, though I might, in the name of Christ, give you orders to do what is right,

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


simplify: And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus.

And Elijah appeared to them, in company with Moses; and they were talking with Jesus.


rate difficulty: And the ten having heard [of it], began to be indignant about James and John.

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


simplify: So shall Beth-el do unto you because of your great wickedness: at daybreak shall the king of Israel be utterly cut off.

So will Beth-el do to you because of your evil-doing; at dawn will the king of Israel be cut off completely.


simplify: And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather the fallen fruit of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am Jehovah your God.

And do not take all the grapes from your vine-garden, or the fruit dropped on the earth; let the poor man, and the man from another country, have these: I am the Lord your God.


rate difficulty: For wherein now shall it be known that I have found favor in thy sight, I and thy people? is it not in that thou goest with us, so that we are separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth?

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


simplify: And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then believed ye him not?

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


simplify: for there are eunuchs who from the mother's womb were so born; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who kept themselves eunuchs because of the reign of the heavens: he who is able to receive <FI> it<Fi> --let him receive.'

Some men, it is true, have from birth been disabled for marriage, while others have been disabled by their fellow men, and others again have disabled themselves for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let him accept it who can.”


simplify: The word of Jehovah which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.

The word of the Lord which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah.


rate difficulty: See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;


simplify: Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and turneth away from evil.

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


simplify: Then David inquired of Jehovah yet again. And Jehovah answered him, and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thy hand.

Then David put the question to the Lord again, and the Lord answering said, Up! go down to Keilah; for I will give the Philistines into your hands.


simplify: Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.

He who calls you will not fail you; he will complete his work.


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

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


simplify: days ye observe, and months, and times, and years!

You are scrupulous in keeping days and months and seasons and years!


rate difficulty: and he shall offer the ram, a sacrifice of peace-offering to Jehovah, with the basket of unleavened bread; the priest shall offer also his oblation and his drink-offering.

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


rate difficulty: I sent a letter to the church, but Diotrephes, whose desire is ever to have the first place among them, will not have us there.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul’s hand.


simplify: But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:

For if the operation of the law, giving death, recorded in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the eyes of the children of Israel had to be turned away from the face of Moses because of its glory, a glory which was only for a time:


simplify: And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

And I took you into a fertile land, where you were living on its fruit and its wealth; but when you came in, you made my land unclean, and made my heritage a disgusting thing.


rate difficulty: For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise: but God hath granted it to Abraham by promise.

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


simplify: Ye see in how large letters I have written to you with my own hand;

See in what large letters I am writing with my own hand.


rate difficulty: AndGod called the expanse Heavens. And there was evening, and there was morning — a second day.

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


simplify: And I will sanctify my great name, which hath been profaned among the nations, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am Jehovah, saith the Lord Jehovah, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

And I will make holy my great name which has been made unclean among the nations, which you have made unclean among them; and it will be clear to the nations that I am the Lord, says the Lord, when I make myself holy in you before their eyes.


rate difficulty: ForGod has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

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


simplify: Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel:

Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah, the son of Obadiah; of Naphtali, Jerimoth, the son of Azriel;


simplify: `For who of you, willing to build a tower, doth not first, having sat down, count the expence, whether he have the things for completing?

Why, which of you, when you want to build a tower, does not first sit down and reckon the cost, to see if you have enough to complete it? —


simplify: And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.

The secrets of his heart are made clear; and he will go down on his face and give worship to God, saying that God is truly among you.


simplify: And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.

So I made an ark of hard wood, and had two stones cut like the others, and went up the mountain with the stones in my hands.


rate difficulty: And your men of war, O Teman, will be overcome with fear, so that every one of them may be cut off from the mountain of Esau.


simplify: And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;

And after waiting another seven days, he sent the dove out again;


rate difficulty: and a chariot cometh up and cometh out of Egypt for six hundred silverlings, and a horse for fifty and a hundred, and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Aram; by their hand they bring out.

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


simplify: then will Jehovah drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.

Then the Lord will send these nations in flight before you, and you will take the lands of nations greater and stronger than yourselves.


simplify: and let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also ye were called in one body, and become thankful.

Let the peace that the Christ gives decide all doubts within your hearts; for you also were called to the enjoyment of peace as members of one body. And show yourselves thankful.


simplify: For thus saith Jehovah: Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.

For the Lord has said: As I have made all this great evil come on this people, so I will send on them all the good which I said about them.


rate difficulty: And having said these words, he let the mouth-bone go out of his hand; so that place was named Ramath-lehi.


simplify: And he saith to them, A man, an enemy, did this; and the servants said to him, Wilt thou, then, <FI>that<Fi> having gone away we may gather it up?

‘An enemy has done this,’ was the owner’s answer. ‘Do you wish us, then,’ they asked,’ to go and gather them together?’


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

Meanwhile they had taken the lad away alive, and were greatly comforted.


rate difficulty: and Asa and the people who <FI>are<Fi> with him pursue them even to Gerar, and there fall of the Cushim, for they have no preserving, because they have been broken before Jehovah, and before His camp; and they bear away very much spoil,

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


simplify: And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.

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


simplify: Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.


simplify: And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they departed.

The friends who escorted Paul took him as far as Athens, and, after receiving a message for Silas and Timothy to join him as quickly as possible, they started on their return.


rate difficulty: When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.

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


rate difficulty: And he commanded the crowds to lie down on the ground;

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


simplify: And they sacrificed sacrifices unto Jehovah, and offered burnt-offerings unto Jehovah, on the morrow after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink-offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel,

And they made offerings to the Lord, and gave burned offerings to the Lord, on the day after, a thousand oxen, a thousand sheep, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and a great wealth of offerings for all Israel.


rate difficulty: I pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them, And I turned not again till they were consumed.

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


rate difficulty: And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.

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


rate difficulty: And Joktan begot Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

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


rate difficulty: And I will say, Make it high, make it high, get ready the way, take the stones out of the way of my people.

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


simplify: Duke Magdiel, duke Iram. These are the dukes of Edom.

The chief of Magdiel, the chief of Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom.


simplify: And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father’s loins.

And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us; will you make it less? say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;


simplify: And the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What further need have we of witnesses?

And the high priest, violently parting his robes, said, What more need have we of witnesses?


simplify: and they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.

And they will take other stones and put them in place of those stones, and he will take other paste and put it on the walls of the house.


rate difficulty: For he saith, `Are not my princes altogether kings?

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


rate difficulty: And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Beth–el,

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


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

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


rate difficulty: To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: and they began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews!

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


rate difficulty: and they had hair like the hair of a woman, their teeth were like lions’ teeth,

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


simplify: And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to enquire of God:

And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to get directions from God:


simplify: Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus.

My brothers, the word of God had to be put into effect, which the Holy Spirit had said before, by the mouth of David, about Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus,


simplify: Then Gideon built an altar there unto the Lord, and called it Jehovah–shalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abi–ezrites.

Then Gideon made an altar there to the Lord, and gave it the name Yahweh-shalom; to this day it is in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.


simplify: And fall down did the elders--the twenty and four--and the four living creatures, and they did bow before God who is sitting upon the throne, saying, `Amen, Alleluia.'

Then the twenty-four councillors and the Four Creatures prostrated themselves and worshiped God who was seated on the throne, crying — ‘Amen, Hallelujah!’;


simplify: Be strong and of good courage, fear not, nor be affrighted at them: for Jehovah thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Be strong and take heart, and have no fear of them: for it is the Lord your God who is going with you; he will not take away his help from you.


simplify: for he doth love our nation, and the synagogue he did build to us.'

“For he is devoted to our nation, and himself built our synagogue for us.”


rate difficulty: `And, if they be prophets, and if a word of Jehovah be with them, let them intercede, I pray you, with Jehovah of Hosts, so that the vessels that are left in the house of Jehovah, and <FI>in<Fi>  the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem, have not gone into Babylon.

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


rate difficulty: For the outcry he made by the word of the Lord against the altar in Beth-el and against all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, will certainly come about.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, at the set time of the year of release, at the feast of tabernacles,

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


simplify: And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.

And at the coming of the chief Keeper of the sheep, you will be given the eternal crown of glory.


simplify: And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

I am persuaded, my friends — yes, I Paul, with regard to you — that you are yourselves full of kindness, furnished with all Christian learning, and well able to give advice to one another.


rate difficulty: Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

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


rate difficulty: to enrol himself with Mary, who was betrothed to him, being great with child.


simplify: And the report thereof was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, Joseph’s brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.

And news of these things went through Pharaoh's house, and it was said that Joseph's brothers were come; and it seemed good to Pharaoh and his servants.


simplify: The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.

Their form is like the form of horses, and they are running like war-horses.


rate difficulty: And ye shall not go out from the door of the tent of meeting, lest ye die; for the anointing oil of Jehovah is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses.

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


simplify: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

Still, he did not give up faith in the undertaking of God, but was made strong by faith, giving glory to God,


simplify: Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.

Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.


rate difficulty: and the sixth <FI>is<Fi> Ithream, of Eglah wife of David; these have been born to David in Hebron.

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


rate difficulty: Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.

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


rate difficulty: Confirming the word of His servant, The counsel of His messengers it perfecteth, Who is saying of Jerusalem, She is inhabited, And of cities of Judah, They shall be built, and her wastes I raise up,

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


rate difficulty: For her wounds are incurable; for it is come even unto Judah; it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

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


simplify: The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred forty and eight.

The music-makers: the children of Asaph, a hundred and forty-eight.


rate difficulty: Ye are not able the cup of the Lord to drink, and the cup of demons; ye are not able of the table of the Lord to partake, and of the table of demons;

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


rate difficulty: Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian.

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


simplify: And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

And the word of God was increasing in power; and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem became very great, and a great number of priests were in agreement with the faith.


simplify: They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.

Those who have been put to the sword are better off than those whose death is caused by need of food; for these come to death slowly, burned up like the fruit of the field.


rate difficulty: Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.


rate difficulty: That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.


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

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


rate difficulty: For a lamp <FI>is<Fi> the command, And the law a light, And a way of life <FI>are<Fi> reproofs of instruction,

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


rate difficulty: Even so, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.

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


rate difficulty: and ye defile not the land in which ye are dwelling, in the midst of which I do tabernacle, for I Jehovah do tabernacle in the midst of the sons of Israel.'

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


rate difficulty: And the people were looking on. And the rulers made sport of him, saying, He was a saviour of others; let him do something for himself, if he is the Christ, the man of God's selection.


rate difficulty: The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.


simplify: They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude; her graves are round about her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that are slain.

They have made a bed for her among the dead, and all her people are round about her resting-place: all of them without circumcision, put to death with the sword; for they were a cause of fear in the land of the living, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld: they have been given a place among those who have been put to the sword.


rate difficulty: Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?

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


simplify: And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.

But they were full of wrath, and were talking together about what they might do to Jesus.


simplify: And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.

and they went to the chief priests and the councillors, and said: “We have taken a solemn oath not to touch food until we have killed Paul.


simplify: And king Rehoboam made in their stead shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house.

So in their place King Rehoboam had other body-covers made of brass, and gave them into the care of the captains of the armed men who were stationed at the door of the king's house.


simplify: And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

And, as his anguish became intense, he prayed still more earnestly, while his sweat was like great drops of blood falling on the ground.


simplify: who received the law by arrangement of messengers, and did not keep <FI>it<Fi> .'

You who received the law as transmitted by angels and yet failed to keep it.”


rate difficulty: And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.

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


rate difficulty: A lion's whelp <FI>is<Fi> Judah, For prey, my son, thou hast gone up; He hath bent, he hath crouched as a lion, And as a lioness; who causeth him to arise?

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


simplify: But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.

The king, in anger, sent his troops, put those murderers to death, and set their city on fire.


simplify: In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

In righteousness and holy living before him all our days.


rate difficulty: And wherever he goes in, say to the owner of the house, The Master says, Where is my guest-room, where I may take the Passover with my disciples?

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


rate difficulty: You are a fountain of gardens, a spring of living waters, and flowing waters from Lebanon.

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


simplify: And when they had passed over, they came into the land of Gennesaret, and drew to the shore.

And when they had gone across, they came to Gennesaret, and got their boat to land.


simplify: Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

Who gave us salvation from so great a death: on whom we have put our hope that he will still go on to give us salvation;


simplify: And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:

and, when they had heard it, they began praising God, and said to Paul:  “You see, brother, that those of our people who have become believers in Christ may be numbered by tens of thousands, and they are all naturally earnest in upholding the Jewish law.


simplify: As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia.

As the true word of Christ is in me, I will let no man take from me this my cause of pride in the country of Achaia.


simplify: And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Manasseh.

And on the limit of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side: Manasseh, one part.


simplify: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

For where your wealth is, there will your heart be.


simplify: Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.

And he made ten brass washing-vessels, everyone taking forty baths, and measuring four cubits; one vessel was placed on every one of the ten bases.


simplify: Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.


simplify: I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.

I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will see that you come back again, and at your death Joseph will put his hands on your eyes.


simplify: And I saw another strong messenger coming down out of the heaven, arrayed with a cloud, and a rainbow upon the head, and his face as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire,

Then I saw another mighty angel, descending from heaven. His robe was a cloud; over his head was the rainbow; his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire;