rate difficulty: And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn my hand against Ekron; and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: what mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the face of the poor? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

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


simplify: And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron which were left alive, saying,

And Moses was looking for the goat of the sin-offering, but it was burned; and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron, who were still living, saying,


rate difficulty: And it hath come to pass, in that day, Go forth do living waters from Jerusalem, Half of them unto the eastern sea, And half of them unto the western sea, In summer and in winter it is.

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


rate difficulty: And Boaz saith, `In the day of thy buying the field from the hand of Naomi, then from Ruth the Moabitess, wife of the dead, thou hast bought <FI>it<Fi> , to raise up the name of the dead over his inheritance.'

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


rate difficulty: and all his sons and all his daughters rise to comfort him, and he refuseth to comfort himself, and saith, `For--I go down mourning unto my son, to Sheol,' and his father weepeth for him.

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


simplify: for he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and should speak according to the language of his people.

And sent letters to all the divisions of the kingdom, to every division in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in the language which was theirs, saying that every man was to be the ruler in his house, and that this order was to be given out in the language of his people.


simplify: For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.

For the rooms in the outer square were fifty cubits long: and in front of the Temple was a space of a hundred cubits.


simplify: So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved.

So the Levites made all the people quiet, saying, Be quiet, for the day is holy; and do not give way to grief.


simplify: And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.

And you will come before rulers and kings because of me, for a witness to them and to the Gentiles.


simplify: then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, Jehovah make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when Jehovah doth make thy thigh to fall away, and thy body to swell;

Then the priest will put the oath of the curse on the woman, and say to her, May the Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people, sending on you wasting of the legs and disease of the stomach;


rate difficulty: and of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah.

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


rate difficulty: And Hezekiah prayed unto Jehovah, saying,

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


simplify: Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews here? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who hath been with me these days, or rather these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell away unto me unto this day?

Then the rulers of the Philistines said, What are these Hebrews doing here? And Achish said to the rulers of the Philistines, Is this not David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me for a year or two, and I have never seen any wrong in him from the time when he came to me till now?


rate difficulty: And it will come about, when your numbers are increased in the land, in those days, says the Lord, that they will no longer say, The ark of the agreement of the Lord: it will not come into their minds, they will not have any memory of it, or be conscious of the loss of it, and it will not be made again.

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


rate difficulty: And Rehoboam went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the town of David; and Abijah his son became king in his place.

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


rate difficulty: And the midwives say unto Pharaoh, `Because the Hebrew women <FI>are<Fi> not as the Egyptian women, for they <FI>are<Fi> lively; before the midwife cometh in unto them--they have borne!'

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


rate difficulty: And Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, In the evening, then shall ye know that Jehovah has brought you out from the land of Egypt;

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


simplify: Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.

Give ear, O earth: see, I will make evil come on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not given attention to my words, and they would have nothing to do with my law.


simplify: For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.


rate difficulty: Follow after love, and be emulous of spiritual [manifestations], but rather that ye may prophesy.

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


rate difficulty: And it hath been, when one prophesieth again, That said unto him have his father and his mother, his parents, `Thou dost not live, For falsehood thou hast spoken in the name of Jehovah,' And pierced him through have his father and his mother, his parents, in his prophesying.

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


rate difficulty: `And in the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, and he hath done perversity, and I have put a stumbling-block before him, he dieth; because thou hast not warned him, in his sin he dieth, and not remembered is his righteousness that he hath done, and his blood from thy hand I require.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

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


simplify: And Ehud made him a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; and he girded it under his raiment upon his right thigh.

So Ehud made himself a two-edged sword, a cubit long, which he put on at his right side under his robe.


rate difficulty: So Israel had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor: and the Lord was moved to wrath against Israel.

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


simplify: And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?

And while their faces were bent down to the earth in fear, these said to them, Why are you looking for the living among the dead?


simplify: And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.

Then let his long hair, the sign of his oath, be cut off at the door of the Tent of meeting, and let him put it on the fire on which the peace-offerings are burning.


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

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


rate difficulty: And in your loose behaviour you are different from other women, for no one goes after you to make love to you: and because you give payment and no payment is given to you, in this you are different from them.

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


rate difficulty: the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer,


simplify: And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.

And because of all this we are making an agreement in good faith, and putting it in writing; and our rulers, our Levites, and our priests are putting their names to it.


rate difficulty: And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.


rate difficulty: — though these three men should be in it, [as] I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters: they only should be delivered, and the land should be a desolation.

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


rate difficulty: and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar brought over, and set in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the country beyond the River, and so forth.

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


rate difficulty: And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field at Machpelah, opposite to Mamre: that is Hebron, in the land of Canaan.


simplify: And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard thereof, they entered into the stronghold of the house of Elberith.

Then all the townsmen of the tower of Shechem, hearing of it, went into the inner room of the house of El-berith.


rate difficulty: Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.

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


rate difficulty: and the watchers see a man coming out from the city, and say to him, `Shew us, we pray thee, the entrance of the city, and we have done with thee kindness.'

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


rate difficulty: Still, to go on in the flesh is more necessary because of you.

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


rate difficulty: if the foot may say, `Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body;


rate difficulty: But let all things be done decently and in order.


simplify: Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.

Get up from your seats before the white-haired, and give honour to the old, and let the fear of your God be before you: I am the Lord.


rate difficulty: ‘Go out,’ the master said, ‘into the roads and hedgerows, and make people come in, so that my house may be filled;


simplify: And Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thy heart; for God is with thee.

And Nathan said to David, Do whatever is in your heart, for God is with you.


simplify: Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as he is, even so are we in this world.

In this way love is made complete in us, so that we may be without fear on the day of judging, because as he is, so are we in this world.


simplify: And of all my sons, (for the Lord hath given me many sons,) he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.

And of all my sons (for the Lord has given me a great number of sons) he has made selection of Solomon to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.


simplify: And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

If someone thinks that they know anything, they have not yet reached that knowledge which they ought to have reached.


simplify: He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

Judging uprightly in the cause of the widow and of the child who has no father, and giving food and clothing in his mercy to the man from a strange country.


rate difficulty: Nevertheless there are good things found in thee; for thou hast put away the Asherahs out of the land, and hast directed thy heart to seekGod.

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


rate difficulty: And the people goeth out into the field to meet Israel, and the battle is in a forest of Ephraim;

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


simplify: And he came out, and went, as his custom was, unto the mount of Olives; and the disciples also followed him.

And he came out, and went, as his way was, to the Mountain of Olives, and the disciples went with him.


rate difficulty: And if this people, or the prophet, or a priest, questioning you, says, What word of weight is there from the Lord? then you are to say to them, You are the word, for I will not be troubled with you any more, says the Lord.

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


simplify: And when he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying,  Seeing that by thee we enjoy much peace, and that by thy providence evils are corrected for this nation,

And when he had been sent for, Tertullus, starting his statement, said, Because by you we are living in peace, and through your wisdom wrongs are put right for this nation,


simplify: They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:

And they have put up the high places of the Baal, burning their sons in the fire; a thing which was not ordered by me, and it was never in my mind:


rate difficulty: And Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobijah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it; and they mocked us and despised us, and said, What is this thing which ye do? will ye rebel against the king?

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


simplify: And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:

And let the priest take some of the blood of the offering for wrongdoing and put it on the point of the right ear of him who is to be made clean, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot;


rate difficulty: and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto Jehovah yourGod: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

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


rate difficulty: And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so.

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


simplify: After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.

After this, in my vision, I saw an open door in the heavens, and the first voice that I heard was like the blast of a trumpet speaking to me. It said — ‘Come up here and I will show you what must take place.’


simplify: And having found the disciples, we tarried there seven days: and these said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not set foot in Jerusalem.

And meeting the disciples we were there for seven days: and they gave Paul orders through the Spirit not to go up to Jerusalem.


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: And he said, Thou shalt not pass through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.

But he said, You are not to go through. And Edom came out against them in his strength, with a great army.


simplify: He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.

And he made up this story for them: A certain man had a fig-tree in his garden, and he came to get fruit from it, and there was no fruit.


simplify: And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:

If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It would be better for you to enter the life lame, than to have both your feet and be thrown into Gehenna.


simplify: But the fig-tree said unto them, Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave to and fro over the trees?

But the fig-tree said to them, Am I to give up my sweet taste and my good fruit and go waving over the trees?


rate difficulty: And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

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


simplify: And Jesus answering said to him, `Happy art thou, Simon Bar-Jona, because flesh and blood did not reveal <FI>it<Fi> to thee, but my Father who is in the heavens.

“Blessed are you, Simon, Son of Jonah,” Jesus replied. “For no human being has revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.


simplify: And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.

And Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all whose birth had taken place in his house, and all his servants whom he had made his for a price, every male of his house, and on that very day he gave them circumcision in the flesh of their private parts as God had said to him.


simplify: The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Thamah,

The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,


simplify: The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

Evil designs are disgusting to the Lord, but the words of the clean-hearted are pleasing.


rate difficulty: yea, they have turned back unto Thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their captivity, whither they have taken them captive, and they have prayed the way of their land that Thou hast given to their fathers, and of the city that Thou hast chosen, and of the house that I have built for Thy name:

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


simplify: for the bodily exercise is unto little profit, and the piety is to all things profitable, a promise having of the life that now is, and of that which is coming;

for while the training of the body is of service in some respects, religion is of service in all, carrying with it, as it does, a promise of life both here and hereafter.


rate difficulty: And one of the scribes who had come up, and had heard them reasoning together, perceiving that he had answered them well, demanded of him, Which is [the] first commandment of all?

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


rate difficulty: I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

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


simplify: And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.

Plates of gold were put all through the house till it was covered completely (and the altar in the inmost room was all covered with gold).


rate difficulty: and the plain, and the Jordan, and the border, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, the salt sea, under the springs of Pisgah, at the <FI>sun<Fi> -rising.

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


simplify: and thou shalt be blessed; because they have not wherewith to recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed in the resurrection of the just.

And you will have a blessing, because they will not be able to give you any payment, and you will get your reward when the upright come back from the dead.


simplify: Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

Yet amidst all these things we more than conquer through him who loved us!


rate difficulty: Jerusalem and the towns of Judah and their kings and their princes, to make them a waste place, a cause of fear and surprise and a curse, as it is this day;

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


simplify: And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he made war and how he became king, are recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel.


simplify: And the residue of Israel, of the priests, and the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, every one in his inheritance.

And the rest of Israel, of the priests, the Levites, were in all the towns of Judah, every one in his heritage.


simplify: But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

And, even if the good news that we bring is veiled, it is veiled only in the case of those who are on the path to ruin —


rate difficulty: One thousand [shall flee] at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as a banner on a hill.

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


simplify: Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.

Come near, you nations, and give ear; take note, you peoples: let the earth and everything in it give ear; the world and all those living in it.


simplify: And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.

And I will give them a heart to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord: and they will be my people, and I will be their God: for they will come back to me with all their heart.


simplify: yea, making it my aim so to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build upon another man’s foundation;

Making it my purpose not to take the good news where Christ was named, so that my work might not be resting on that of others;


simplify: And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.

This made him angry, and he would not go in. But his father came out and begged him to do so.


rate difficulty: `And when the season of the fruits came nigh, he sent his servants unto the husbandmen, to receive the fruits of it,

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


simplify: Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;

The names of the twelve apostles are these: First Simon, also known as Peter, and his brother Andrew; James the son of Zebedee, and his brother John;


rate difficulty: In your patience ye shall win your souls.

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


simplify: For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as was the heart of David his father.

For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.


simplify: And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, and saluted the brethren, and abode with them one day.

And journeying by ship from Tyre we came to Ptolemais; and there we had talk with the brothers and were with them for one day.


simplify: Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:

Who did no evil, and there was no deceit in his mouth:


simplify: If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;

Anyone who teaches otherwise, and refuses their assent to sound instruction — the instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ — and to the teaching of religion,


simplify: And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.

Then Delilah said to Samson, Up to now you have made sport of me with false words; now say truly, how may you be put in bands? And he said to her, If you get the seven twists of my hair worked into the cloth you are making and fixed with the pin, I will become feeble and will be like any other man.


simplify: O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.

O Lord of armies, the God of Israel, seated between the winged ones, you only are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.


rate difficulty: He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: you are greatly in error.

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


simplify: Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

So after taking thought the king made two oxen of gold; and he said to the people, You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough; see! these are your gods, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.


simplify: And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering;

And say to the children of Israel: Take a he-goat for a sin-offering, and a young ox and a lamb, in their first year, without any mark on them, for a burned offering;


simplify: He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

He who keeps a sin covered is looking for love; but he who keeps on talking of a thing makes division between friends.


simplify: Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?

Then the disciples came and said to him, Did you see that the Pharisees were troubled when these words came to their ears?


rate difficulty: In those days and in that time, says the Lord, the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping and making prayer to the Lord their God.

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


rate difficulty: Or if it be known that the ox was wont to gore in time past, and its owner hath not kept it in; he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his own.

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


simplify: And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.

Your bodies will be meat for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth; there will be no one to send them away.


simplify: For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?

For you say, Where is the house of the ruler, and where is the tent of the evil-doer?


simplify: And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel; he was a great man and had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats: and he was cutting the wool of his sheep in Carmel.


simplify: Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

Blessings be on Jael, more than on all women! Blessings greater than on any in the tents!


rate difficulty: And going by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon, and Andrew, the brother of Simon, putting a net into the sea: for they were fishermen.

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


rate difficulty: And all the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was over against window in three ranks.

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


simplify: and that I may not be further tedious to thee, I pray thee to hear us concisely in thy gentleness;

But — not to be tedious — I beg you, with your accustomed fairness, to listen to a brief statement of our case.


simplify: as he did for the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day.

As he did for the children of Esau living in Seir, when he sent destruction on the Horites before them, and they took their land where they are living to this day:


simplify: And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

And by chance a certain priest was going down that way: and when he saw him, he went by on the other side.


simplify: Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.

Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.


rate difficulty: Thou shalt not wrest the justice due to the sojourner, or to the fatherless, nor take the widow’s raiment to pledge;

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


simplify: Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye are.

Then the rulers said to Baruch, Go and put yourself in a safe place, you and Jeremiah, and let no man have knowledge of where you are.


rate difficulty: and I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.

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


rate difficulty: Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.


rate difficulty: These twelve did Jesus send forth, having given command to them, saying, `To the way of the nations go not away, and into a city of the Samaritans go not in,

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


simplify: For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.

For the Sadducees say that there is no coming back from the dead, and no angels or spirits: but the Pharisees have belief in all these.


rate difficulty: Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah;

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


rate difficulty: There were a good many lamps in the upstairs room, where we had met;


rate difficulty: For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.


rate difficulty: Make ye mention to the nations, Lo, sound ye to Jerusalem: `Besiegers are coming from the land afar off, And they give forth against cities of Judah their voice.

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


simplify: And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.

And on the Sabbath we went outside the town, by the river, where we had an idea that there would be a place of prayer; and, being seated, we had talk with the women who had come together.


rate difficulty: `And the steward said in himself, What shall I do, because my lord doth take away the stewardship from me? to dig I am not able, to beg I am ashamed: --

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


rate difficulty: `What--to you, ye--using this simile Concerning the ground of Israel, saying: Fathers do eat unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted?

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


rate difficulty: He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.

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


simplify: And again he began to teach by the sea side. And there is gathered unto him a very great multitude, so that he entered into a boat, and sat in the sea; and all the multitude were by the sea on the land.

And again he was teaching by the seaside. And a very great number of people had come to him, so that he got into a boat on the sea and took his seat; and all the people were on the land by the seaside.


rate difficulty: And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside them, and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the Lord’s house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

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


simplify: And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for himself, because one hath cast down his altar.

But Joash said to all those who were attacking him, Will you take up the cause of Baal? will you be his saviour? Let anyone who will take up his cause be put to death while it is still morning: if he is a god, let him take up his cause himself because of the pulling down of his altar.


rate difficulty: So she gleaned in the field until even; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.


rate difficulty: And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the Lord be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,

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


simplify: And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

In the course of the Festival at the close of the Harvest the disciples had all met together,


simplify: And he left them, and again entering into the boat departed to the other side.

And he went away from them, and again got into the boat and went across to the other side.


rate difficulty: The Lord is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.

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


simplify: Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to a command of God our Saviour, and of the Lord Jesus Christ our hope,

From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the appointment of God, our Savior, and Christ Jesus, our hope.


simplify: Or else let these men themselves say what wrong-doing they found when I stood before the council,

Or let these men here present say what wrongdoing was seen in me when I was before the Sanhedrin,


simplify: He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?

He says to them, But who do you say that I am?


simplify: Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

whose will is that everyone should be saved, and attain to a full knowledge of the truth.


rate difficulty: And one of the teachers of the law, answering, said to him, Master, in saying this, you give a bad name to us as to them.

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


simplify: And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing.

And on his looking round to see her who had done this thing,


rate difficulty: as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet,  The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ye ready the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight.

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


rate difficulty: And when they had come, they said to him, Master, we are certain that you are true, and have no fear of anyone: you have no respect for a man's position, but you are teaching the true way of God: Is it right to give taxes to Caesar or not?


simplify: Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.

Be in debt for nothing, but to have love for one another: for he who has love for his neighbour has kept all the law.


simplify: And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Beth–shemesh, and passed on to Timnah:

Then turning west, the line goes from Baalah to Mount Seir, and on to the side of Mount Jearim (which is Chesalon) on the north, then down to Beth-shemesh, and on past Timnah:


simplify: And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

And it pleased God that you, once estranged from him and hostile towards him in your thoughts, intent only on wickedness —


simplify: He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the evil-doers will come to their end in the dark night, for by strength no man will overcome.


simplify: and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there will I enter into judgment with you face to face.

And I will take you into the waste land of the peoples, and there I will take up the cause with you face to face.


rate difficulty: Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

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


simplify: For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

For all this is for your sakes, so that the loving kindness of God, spreading from heart to heart, may cause yet more hearts to overflow with thanksgiving, to his glory.


simplify: And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,

And he gave Joseph a blessing, saying, May the God to whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, gave worship, the God who has taken care of me all my life till this day,


simplify: So they drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

So pulling Jeremiah up with the cords they got him out of the water-hole: and Jeremiah was kept in the place of the armed watchmen.


rate difficulty: Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:

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


rate difficulty: There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.

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


rate difficulty: when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.

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


simplify: And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.

Then Jotham straight away went in flight to Beer, and was living there for fear of his brother Abimelech.


simplify: whom I did send again, and thou him (that is, my own bowels) receive,

and I am sending him back to you with this letter — though it is like tearing out of my heart.


rate difficulty: Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I find no fault in this man.


rate difficulty: And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and keep mine ordinances, and ye shall do them.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: one buck of the goats for a sin-offering;

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


simplify: And all these things as types did happen to those persons, and they were written for our admonition, to whom the end of the ages did come,

These things happened to them by way of warning, and were recorded to serve as a caution to us, in whose days the close of the ages has come.


rate difficulty: And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward.

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


rate difficulty: And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.

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


rate difficulty: The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness: and yet I perceived that one event happeneth to them all.

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


simplify: And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valour, famous throughout the house of their fathers.

And of the children of Ephraim, twenty thousand, eight hundred great men of war, men of great name in their families.


simplify: That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eaten; and that which the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.

What the worm did not make a meal of, has been taken by the locust; and what the locust did not take, has been food for the plant-worm; and what the plant-worm did not take, has been food for the field-fly.


rate difficulty: You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing.

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


rate difficulty: And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.

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


rate difficulty: concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,


rate difficulty: and a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, was gradually overcome with great drowsiness, as Paul continued his address. At last, quite overpowered by his drowsiness, he fell from the third story to the ground, and was picked up for dead.

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


simplify: Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

Then the lambs will get food as in their grass-lands, and the fat cattle will be feasting in the waste places.


simplify: But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;

But this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by the decision of the Lord;


simplify: Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males.

Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males.


rate difficulty: Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.

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


rate difficulty: And he went out again by the sea, and all the crowd came to him, and he taught them.

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


simplify: The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.

The righteousness of the upright will be their salvation, but the false will themselves be taken in their evil designs.


rate difficulty: They have called to them rightly, They have gone from before them, To lords they do sacrifice, And to graven images they make perfume.


simplify: and he said unto Moses, I, thy father-in-law Jethro, am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.

And he said to Moses, I, your father-in-law, have come to you, with your wife and your two sons.


simplify: Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, calledto bean apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, an Apostle by the selection of God, given authority as a preacher of the good news,


rate difficulty: For to this [end] were the glad tidings preached to [the] dead also, that they might be judged, as regards men, after [the] flesh, but live, as regardsGod, after [the] Spirit.


rate difficulty: A God zealous and avenging <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah, An avenger <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah, and possessing fury. An avenger <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah on His adversaries, And He is watching for His enemies.

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


simplify: and he having seen their faith, said to him, `Man, thy sins have been forgiven thee.'

When he saw their faith, Jesus said: “Friend, your sins have been forgiven you.”


simplify: Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, And thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

You will be certain that your seed will be great, and your offspring like the plants of the earth.


rate difficulty: So his sons did as he had given them orders to do:


simplify: And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.

And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the tent-circle at Gilgal, saying, Be not slow to send help to your servants; come up quickly to our support and keep us safe: for all the kings of the Amorites from the hill-country have come together against us.


simplify: and he was again denying. And after a little again, those standing near said to Peter, `Truly thou art of them, for thou also art a Galilean, and thy speech is alike;'

But Peter again denied it.   Soon afterwards the bystanders again said to him: “You certainly are one of them; why you are a Galilean!”


rate difficulty: And Zedekiah saith unto Jeremiah, `Let no man know of these words, and thou dost not die;

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


simplify: But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet.

But if we say, Of men; we will be stoned by the people, for they are certain that John was a prophet.


simplify: And she said unto him, There is no cause: this evil in sending me away is greater than the other that thou didst unto me. But he would not hearken unto her.

And she said to him, Not so, my brother, for this great wrong in sending me away is worse than what you did to me before. But he gave no attention to her.


simplify: For thus saith Jehovah, Ye were sold for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

For the Lord says, You were given for nothing, and you will be made free without price.


rate difficulty: When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel, according to those that are numbered of them, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto Jehovah, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.

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


simplify: Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

Any man who has sex connection with a beast is to be put to death.


rate difficulty: For if they which [are] of law be heirs, faith is made vain, and the promise made of no effect.

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


rate difficulty: Sunk into the earth have her gates, He hath destroyed and broken her bars, Her king and her princes <FI>are<Fi> among the nations, There is no law, also her prophets Have not found vision from Jehovah.

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


simplify: And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.

And when the grain is cut, you are to give a fifth part to Pharaoh, and four parts will be yours for seed and food, and for your families and your little ones.


simplify: Now it came to pass in those days, there went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus, that all the world should be enrolled.

Now it came about in those days that an order went out from Caesar Augustus that there was to be a numbering of all the world.


simplify: But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.

But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil.


rate difficulty: And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the straitness wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

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


rate difficulty: therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of Jehovah in the ears of the people in Jehovah’s house upon the fast-day; and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.

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


simplify: And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

And receive ‘the helmet of salvation,’ and ‘the sword of the Spirit’ — which is the message of God — always with prayer and supplication.


simplify: And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will verily buy it of thee at a price; neither will I offer burnt-offerings unto Jehovah my God which cost me nothing. So David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

And the king said to Araunah, No, but I will give you a price for it; I will not give to the Lord my God burned offerings for which I have given nothing. So David got the grain-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.


rate difficulty: These are the heritages which Eleazar the priest and Joshua, the son of Nun, and the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel gave out at Shiloh, by the decision of the Lord, at the door of the Tent of meeting. So the distribution of the land was complete.

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


rate difficulty: And Saul is abiding at the extremity of Gibeah, under the pomegranate which <FI>is<Fi> in Migron, and the people who <FI>are<Fi> with him, about six hundred men,

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


rate difficulty: Of Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the family of the Arelites.

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


simplify: The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?

The baptism of John, was it from heaven or of men?


simplify: So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also that are in Rome.

For which reason I have the desire, as far as I am able, to give the knowledge of the good news to you who are in Rome.


rate difficulty: The wicked is driven away by his evil-doing; but the righteous trusteth, [even] in his death.

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


rate difficulty: Then said the Lord unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.


rate difficulty: `Cursed <FI>is<Fi> he who is smiting his neighbour in secret, --and all the people have said, Amen.

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


rate difficulty: then the congregation shall judge between the smiter and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances;

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


rate difficulty: And they come nigh--all the heads of the forces, and Johanan son of Kareah, and Jezaniah son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even unto the greatest--

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


rate difficulty: Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

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


rate difficulty: Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;

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


rate difficulty: Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.


rate difficulty: then the priest shall go out of the house to the entrance of the house, and shut up the house seven days.

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


rate difficulty: And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

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


rate difficulty: Heal me, O Jehovah, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.

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


rate difficulty: The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,

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


rate difficulty: It is he that buildeth his upper chambers in the heavens, and hath founded his vault upon the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah is his name.

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


simplify: who had his dwelling in the tombs, and not even with chains was any one able to bind him,

and who made his home in the tombs. No one had ever been able to secure him, even with a chain;


simplify: for he did heal many, so that they threw themselves on him, in order to touch him--as many as had plagues;

For he had cured many of them, and so people kept crowding around him, so all who were sick might touch him.


simplify: And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, The Lord, the God of your father David, says, Because you have not kept to the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or the ways of Asa, king of Judah,


rate difficulty: Or can one walk upon hot coals, And his feet not be scorched?


simplify: And she arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, Behold, thy handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.

And she got up, and going down on her face to the earth, said, See, I am ready to be a servant-girl, washing the feet of the servants of my lord.


simplify: And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the Lord, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:

And like the bad figs which are so bad that they are of no use for food, so I will give up Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his chiefs and the rest of Jerusalem who are still in this land, and those who are in the land of Egypt:


rate difficulty: Jehovah hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath consumed the foundations thereof.

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


rate difficulty: `Son of man, the inhabitants of these wastes on the ground of Israel are speaking, saying: Alone hath been Abraham--and he possesseth the land, and we <FI>are<Fi> many--to us hath the land been given for a possession.

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


simplify: until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest.

Till the spirit comes on us from on high, and the waste land becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field is changed into a wood.


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

And after the death of Hezron, Caleb had connection with Ephrath, his father Hezron's wife, and she gave birth to his son Asshur, the father of Tekoa.


rate difficulty: In that day cover over doth Jehovah the inhabitant of Jerusalem, And the stumbling among them hath been in that day as David, And the house of David as God--As a messenger of Jehovah--before them.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

I have come, not to get the upright, but sinners, so that they may be turned from their sins.


simplify: Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers.

Truly, God will not give up him who is without sin, and will not take evil-doers by the hand.


simplify: and the chief priest Ananias commanded those standing by him to smite him on the mouth,

At this, the high priest Ananias ordered the men standing near to strike him on the mouth;


rate difficulty: And he said to them, Why sleep ye? rise up and pray that ye enter not into temptation.

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


simplify: And these were they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers’ houses, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel:

All these were the people who went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but because they had no knowledge of their fathers' families or offspring, it was not certain if they were Israelites:


rate difficulty: And all that heard it wondered at the things which were spoken unto them by the shepherds.

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


simplify: Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.

Take a book and put down in it all the words I have said to you against Israel and against Judah and against all the nations, from the day when my word came to you in the days of Josiah till this day.


rate difficulty: And in every part of the kingdom and in every town, wherever the king's letter and his order came, the Jews were glad with great joy, and had a feast and a good day. And a great number of the people of the land became Jews: for the fear of the Jews had come on them.

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


simplify: And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.

And Adah gave birth to Jabal: he was the father of such as are living in tents and keep cattle.


simplify: Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished.

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


rate difficulty: `Only, take heed to thyself, and watch thy soul exceedingly, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from thy heart, all days of thy life; and thou hast made them known to thy sons, and to thy sons' sons.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 11 | difficulty: hard


simplify: For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the jaw-teeth of a lioness.

For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion.


simplify: And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri.

And the sons of Uzziel: Mishael and Elzaphan and Sithri.


rate difficulty: So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes of Israel.

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


simplify: Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.


rate difficulty: And David was full of fear, in the knowledge that Saul had come out to take his life; and David was in the waste land of Ziph, in Horesh.


simplify: And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.

And he said, Let not the Lord be angry with me if I say, What if there are thirty there? And he said, I will not do it if there are thirty.


rate difficulty: And it will be like a man cutting the growth of his grain, pulling together the heads of the grain with his arm; even as when they get in the grain in the valley of Rephaim.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

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


rate difficulty: They are not to have all the hair cut off their heads, and they are not to let their hair get long, but they are to have the ends of their hair cut.

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


rate difficulty: It <FI>is<Fi> the word of Jehovah that He spake unto Jehu, saying, `Sons of the fourth <FI>generation<Fi> do sit for thee on the throne of Israel;' and it is so.

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


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for by a strong hand shall he let them go, and by a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.

And the Lord said to Moses, Now you will see what I am about to do to Pharaoh; for by a strong hand he will be forced to let them go, driving them out of his land because of my outstretched arm.


rate difficulty: And Saul, desiring directions from God, said, Am I to go down after the Philistines? will you give them up into the hands of Israel? But he gave him no answer that day.


simplify: And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,

And a woman, who had had a flow of blood for twelve years,


rate difficulty: Put him into my care and make me responsible for him: if I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.

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


rate difficulty: in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.


rate difficulty: His legs, pillars of marble, set upon bases of fine gold: His bearing as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars;

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


rate difficulty: And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us.


simplify: And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.

As neither sun nor stars were visible for several days, and, as the gale still continued severe, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned.


simplify: A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.

Let this fiftieth year be the Jubilee: no seed may be planted, and that which comes to growth of itself may not be cut, and the grapes may not be taken from the uncared-for vines.


simplify: and to Apphia our sister, and to Archippus our fellow-soldier, and to the church in thy house:

And to Apphia, our sister, and to Archippus, our brother in God's army, and to the church in your house:


simplify: And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?

And the Lord said to Cain, Why are you angry? and why is your face sad?


simplify: And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.

The child grew and became strong in spirit; and he lived in the Wilds until the time came for his appearance before Israel.


rate difficulty: and the border turned to Ramah, and to the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea by the region of Achzib;

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


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

and cried aloud: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is your unborn child!


simplify: Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.

See, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your brow hard against their brows.


simplify: At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;

Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on it;


rate difficulty: So Jehovah was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.

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


simplify: These things I did write to you concerning those leading you astray;

In writing this this to you, I have in mind those who are trying to mislead you.


simplify: Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets: This man is not worthy of death; for he hath spoken to us in the name of Jehovah our God.

Then the rulers and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, It is not right for this man to be put to death: for he has said words to us in the name of the Lord our God.


rate difficulty: And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,

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


rate difficulty: and the men that died not were smitten with the hemorrhoids; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

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


simplify: Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

Still, I will be glad in the Lord, my joy will be in the God of my salvation.


simplify: Specially the day that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.

That day when you were waiting before the Lord your God in Horeb, and the Lord said to me, Make all the people come together, so that hearing my words they may go in fear of me all the days of their life on earth and give this teaching to their children.


simplify: If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;

Be the saviour of those who are given up to death, and do not keep back help from those who are slipping to destruction.


rate difficulty: A wicked man hardeneth his face; But as for the upright, he establisheth his ways.

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


rate difficulty: And they begin on the first of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month they have come to the porch of Jehovah, and they sanctify the house of Jehovah in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they have finished.

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


rate difficulty: And thine eyes shall not pity; life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.


rate difficulty: Though he was nearly a hundred years old, yet his faith did not fail him, even when he thought of his own body, then utterly worn out, and remembered that Sarah was past bearing children.

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


rate difficulty: And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.

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


rate difficulty: For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of self-control.

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


rate difficulty: and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and of you to be set forward on my journey unto Judæa.

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


rate difficulty: And also Solomon is sitting on the throne of the kingdom.


simplify: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

for that will be ‘a time of great distress, the like of which has not occurred from the beginning of the world down to the present time’ — no, nor ever will again.


rate difficulty: As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.


rate difficulty: And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw nothing; and they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.


rate difficulty: Even as I also please all in all things; not seeking my own profit, but that of the many, that they may be saved.


rate difficulty: And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah: he departed not from any of the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.


simplify: And men were scorched with great heat: and they blasphemed the name of God who hath the power over these plagues; and they repented not to give him glory.

And men were burned with great heat: and they said evil things against the name of the God who has authority over these punishments; and they were not turned from their evil ways to give him glory.


simplify: But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.

But Saul got knowledge of their design. And they kept watch day and night on the roads out of the town, so that they might put him to death:


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel journeyed, and encamped in Oboth.

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


rate difficulty: Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,

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


rate difficulty: Israel is an unpruned vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the abundance of his fruit he hath multiplied altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly statues.

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


simplify: And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.

And they sent for the king, and Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to them.


rate difficulty: But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, hearing of it, made sport of us, laughing at us and saying, What are you doing? will you go against the king?

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


rate difficulty: The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three.

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


simplify: That the Lord spake unto me, saying,

The word of the Lord came to me, saying,


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

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


rate difficulty: And Eli saith to Samuel, `Go, lie down, and it hath been, if He doth call unto thee, that thou hast said, Speak, Jehovah, for Thy servant is hearing;' and Samuel goeth and lieth down in his place.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 10 | difficulty: hard


simplify: All that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of Jehovah, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand.

All the Levites numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord, all the males of one month old and over numbered in the order of their families, were twenty-two thousand.


simplify: and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their meal-offering, and their drink-offerings.

And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of the best meal mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes covered with oil, with their meal offering and drink offerings.


simplify: And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.

And at these words the disciples went down on their faces in great fear.


rate difficulty: therefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book;

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


simplify: And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.

The child grew and became strong and wise, and the blessing of God was on him.


rate difficulty: And if he has no brothers, then give his heritage to his father's brothers.


rate difficulty: But his wife said to him, If Jehovah were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt-offering and an oblation at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would he at this time have told us [such things] as these.

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


simplify: I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of dead people, but of living.”


simplify: And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities which are mentioned by name.

And they gave by the Lord's decision out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these towns whose names are given.


simplify: And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.

And when they came to Marah, the water was no good for drinking, for the waters of Marah were bitter, which is why it was named Marah.


simplify: Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

You are the sons of the prophets, and of the agreement which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, Through your seed a blessing will come on all the families of the earth.


simplify: Wherefore, also, I was hindered many times from coming unto you,

That is why I have so often been prevented from coming to you.


rate difficulty: So take care that these words of the prophets do not come true for you;


rate difficulty: And the sons of Jeconiah, who was taken prisoner: Shealtiel his son,


rate difficulty: Hearing of you the peoples were shaking in fear: the people of Philistia were gripped with pain.


simplify: And now I ask one petition of thee; deny me not. And she said unto him, Say on.

Now I have one request to make to you, and do not say, No, to me. And she said to him, Say on.


rate difficulty: And Solomon joineth in marriage with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and taketh the daughter of Pharaoh, and bringeth her in unto the city of David, till he completeth to build his own house, and the house of Jehovah, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.

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


rate difficulty: The children of Harim, a thousandandseventeen.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.

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


simplify: And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.

And they put the two twisted chains on the two rings at the ends of the priest's bag;


rate difficulty: but they who are counted worthy to have part in that world, and the resurrection from among [the] dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage;

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


rate difficulty: Truly, the hills, and the noise of an army on the mountains, are a false hope: truly, in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And whosoever shall compel thee to go one mile, go with him two.

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


simplify: and thence having sailed, on the morrow we came over-against Chios, and the next day we arrived at Samos, and having remained in Trogyllium, on the following day we came to Miletus,

The day after we had sailed from there, we arrived off Chios, touched at Samos the following day, and the next day reached Miletus;


rate difficulty: And the woman came at the dawning of the day, and fell down at the entrance of the man's house where her lord was, till it was light.

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


rate difficulty: O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who delight to fear thy name; and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. Now I was cupbearer to the king.

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


simplify: And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, immediately.

And that same hour of the night, he took them, and when he had given attention to their wounds, he and all his family had baptism straight away.


rate difficulty: Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.

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


simplify: For thou writest bitter things against me, And makest me to inherit the iniquities of my youth:

For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;


rate difficulty: And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:


rate difficulty: for revealed is the wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety and unrighteousness of men, holding down the truth in unrighteousness.


simplify: saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:

Saying, No, but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will not see war, or be hearing the sound of the horn, or be in need of food; there we will make our living-place;


simplify: If iniquity be in thy hand, put it far away, And let not unrighteousness dwell in thy tents.

If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;


rate difficulty: For he is our peace, who has made the two into one, and by whom the middle wall of division has been broken down,

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


simplify: With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.

With twelve hundred war-carriages and sixty thousand horsemen: and the people who came with him out of Egypt were more than might be numbered: Lubim and Sukkiim and Ethiopians.


rate difficulty: And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should give children suck? for I have borne him a son in his old age.


simplify: Have ye not known that those working about the things of the temple--of the temple do eat, and those waiting at the altar--with the altar are partakers?

Do not you know that those who do the work of the Temple live on what comes from the Temple, and that those who serve at the altar share the offerings with the altar?


rate difficulty: And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.


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

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father’s house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.

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


simplify: And Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

And Joseph took the body, folding it in clean linen,


simplify: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

And through this he has given us the hope of great rewards highly to be valued; so that by them we might have our part in God's being, and be made free from the destruction which is in the world through the desires of the flesh.


simplify: transgressing and denying Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

We have gone against the Lord, and been false to him, turning away from our God, our words have been uncontrolled, and in our hearts are thoughts of deceit.


rate difficulty: Therefore do men fear Him, He seeth not any of the wise of heart.

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


rate difficulty: And I see when (for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery) I have sent her away, and I give the bill of her divorce unto her, that treacherous Judah her sister hath not feared, and goeth and committeth fornication--she also.

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


simplify: And it shall be in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;

‘It will come about in the last days,’ God says, ‘That I will pour out my Spirit on all humanity; Your sons and your daughters will become prophets, Your young men will see visions, And your old men dream dreams;


simplify: Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to Sheol in peace.

So be guided by your wisdom, and let not his white head go down to the underworld in peace.


simplify: And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for Jehovah will destroy the city. But he seemed unto his sons-in-law as one that mocked.

And Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were married to his daughters, Come, let us go out of this place, for the Lord is about to send destruction on the town. But his sons-in-law did not take him seriously.


rate difficulty: They that are mine enemies without cause have chased me sore like a bird.


simplify: And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah, that lieth before Shechem; and the border went along on the right hand unto the inhabitants of En–tappuah.

And the limit of Manasseh's land was from Asher to Michmethath, which is before Shechem; the line goes on to the right hand, to the people of En-tappuah.


simplify: And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,

And he gave orders to the man who took the news, saying, After you have given the king all the news about the war,


simplify: And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that his father Uzziah had done: howbeit he entered not into the temple of Jehovah. And the people did yet corruptly.

He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done; but he did not go into the Temple of the Lord. And the people still went on in their evil ways.


rate difficulty: All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man hath power over another to his hurt.

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


rate difficulty: If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Go, descend, for thy people whom thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt hath done corruptly,

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


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

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


simplify: If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the Lord; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the Lord a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:

If anyone is untrue, sinning in error in connection with the holy things of the Lord, let him take his offering to the Lord, a male sheep from the flock, without any mark, of the value fixed by you in silver by shekels, by the scale of the holy place.


simplify: and his head and hairs white, as if white wool--as snow, and his eyes as a flame of fire;

‘The hair of his head was as white as wool, as white as snow; his eyes were like flaming fire;


rate difficulty: And he shall take the two goats, and set them before Jehovah, before the entrance of the tent of meeting.

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.

Blessed are you when people insult you, and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil lies about you because of me.


rate difficulty: Behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will uncover thy skirts upon thy face; and I will show the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.

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


rate difficulty: And disannulled hath been your covenant with death, And your provision with Sheol doth not stand, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Then ye have been to it for a treading-place.

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


simplify: And when it was shown to me that there would be a plot against the man, I sent him to thee forthwith, charging his accusers also to speak against him before thee.

And when news was given to me that a secret design was being made against the man, I sent him straight away to you, giving orders to those who are against him to make their statements before you.


simplify: What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge?

Why do you make use of this saying about the land of Israel, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are on edge?


rate difficulty: Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

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


simplify: The king said also unto Zadok the priest, Art thou not a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.

The king said further to Zadok the priest, See, you and Abiathar are to go back to the town in peace, with your two sons, Ahimaaz, your son, and Jonathan, the son of Abiathar.


simplify: And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.

And there are different sorts of servants, but the same Lord.


simplify: Let me not, I pray you, respect any man’s person; Neither will I give flattering titles unto any man.

Let me not give respect to any man, or give names of honour to any living.


simplify: And Elisha said, As the Lord of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor see thee.

Then Elisha said, By the life of the Lord of armies whose servant I am, if it was not for the respect I have for Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, I would not give a look at you, or see you.


simplify: And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.

And I took your sin, the image which you had made, and put it in the fire and had it hammered and crushed very small till it was only dust: and the dust I put in the stream flowing down from the mountain.


rate difficulty: Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,

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


rate difficulty: But Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David. And Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeks to kill thee; and now, I pray thee, take heed to thyself in the morning, and abide in a secret place and hide thyself;

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


simplify: Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan.

And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's servant-wife: she was the mother of Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.


rate difficulty: `And ye take no atonement for the life of a murderer who <FI>is<Fi> condemned--to die, for he is certainly put to death;

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


simplify: He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.


rate difficulty: An ear that is hearing the reproof of life Doth lodge among the wise.

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


rate difficulty: For if ye turn again unto Jehovah, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for Jehovah your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.

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


rate difficulty: but when the flock were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

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


rate difficulty: And I will smite the winter-house with the summer-house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and many houses shall have an end, saith Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: But me, your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon, he has not sent for.

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


rate difficulty: So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.

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


simplify: And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.

And I will make that land undergo everything I have said against it, even everything recorded in this book, which Jeremiah the prophet has said against all the nations.


rate difficulty: and he was teaching, saying to them, `Hath it not been written--My house a house of prayer shall be called for all the nations, and ye did make it a den of robbers?'

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


simplify: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

that your minds may be so enlightened that you may realize the hope given by God’s call, the wealth of the glory of his heritage among Christ’s people,


rate difficulty: Every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.