simplify: and to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for food: and it was so.

And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.


simplify: And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him.

“Where is your faith?”he exclaimed. But in great awe and amazement they said to one another: “Who can this be, who commands even the winds and the waves, and they obey him?”


simplify: Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

Even so, every good tree gives good fruit; but the bad tree gives evil fruit.


simplify: And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.

And a spirit of wisdom to the judge, and strength to those who keep back the attackers at the door of the town.


simplify: And the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara.

And the sons of Jether: Jephunneh and Pispah and Ara.


rate difficulty: `Thou dost not pollute thy daughter to cause her to go a-whoring, that the land go not a-whoring, and the land hath been full of wickedness.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,

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


simplify: And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me.

And after these things he went out, and saw Levi, a tax-farmer, seated at the place where taxes were taken, and said to him, Come after me.


rate difficulty: Daily I die, by your boasting which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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


simplify: And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the Lord was departed from him.

Then she said, The Philistines are on you, Samson. And awaking from his sleep, he said, I will go out as at other times, shaking myself free. But he was not conscious that the Lord had gone from him.


simplify: Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the Lord dwell among the children of Israel.

Do not make unclean the land where you are living and in which is my House: for I the Lord am present among the children of Israel.


simplify: In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, and reigned twenty and four years.

In the third year of the rule of Asa, king of Judah, Baasha, the son of Ahijah, became king over all Israel in Tirzah, and was king for twenty-four years.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all.


rate difficulty: The beginning of wisdom [is], Get wisdom; and with all thy getting get intelligence.

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


simplify: To shine upon them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death; To guide our feet into the way of peace.

To give light to those in dark places, and in the shade of death, so that our feet may be guided into the way of peace.


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

And Hezekiah was glad at their coming and let them see all his store of wealth, the silver and the gold and the spices and the oil of great price, and the house of his arms, and everything there was in his stores; there was nothing in all his house or his kingdom which Hezekiah did not let them see.


rate difficulty: But he answering said, `It hath been written, Not upon bread alone doth man live, but upon every word coming forth from the mouth of God.'

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


rate difficulty: The upright are surprised at this, and he who has done no wrong is troubled because of the evil-doers.

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


rate difficulty: The blessing of the perishing cometh on me, And the heart of the widow I cause to sing.

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


simplify: For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.

for the Holy Spirit will show you at the moment what you ought to say.”


simplify: And Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

And Jonathan again took an oath to David, because of his love for him: for David was as dear to him as his very soul.


simplify: Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

And do not go up by steps to my altar, for fear that your bodies may be seen uncovered.


simplify: And behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and took hold of his feet, and worshipped him.

And on the way, Jesus came to them, saying, Be glad. And they came and put their hands on his feet, and gave him worship.


rate difficulty: and having heard, they were glad, and promised to give him money, and he was seeking how, conveniently, he might deliver him up.

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


simplify: But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.

But take care that this right of yours does not become in any way a stumbling-block to the weak.


rate difficulty: And the Lord gave me a vision of four metal-workers.


simplify: A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

A time for love and a time for hate; a time for war and a time for peace.


rate difficulty: So now do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or do anything for their peace or well-being for ever; so that you may be strong, living on the good of the land, and handing it on to your children for a heritage for ever.

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


simplify: And there cometh to him a leper, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

And a leper came to him and, going down on his knees before him, made a request, saying, If it is your pleasure, you have the power to make me clean.


rate difficulty: And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.


rate difficulty: So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh as the Lord had said. Now Nineveh was a very great town, three days' journey from end to end.

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


rate difficulty: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt, so that I might be your God: I am the Lord your God.

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


simplify: The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns; But the path of the upright is made a highway.

Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.


rate difficulty: If I justified myself, mine own mouth would condemn me; were I perfect, he would prove me perverse.

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


rate difficulty: and they cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.


simplify: Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

Is there evil in my tongue? is not the cause of my trouble clear to me?


simplify: Boiling over as water, thou shalt not have the pre-eminence; Because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; Then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

But because you were uncontrolled, the first place will not be yours; for you went up to your father's bed, even his bride-bed, and made it unclean.


simplify: Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.

My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him;


simplify: But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.

But go, and say to his disciples and to Peter ‘He is going before you into Galilee; there you will see him, as he told you.’”


rate difficulty: And the Lord said, `Hear ye what the unrighteous judge saith:

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


simplify: as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised--only that for the cross of the Christ they may not be persecuted,

Those who wish to appear to advantage in regard to outward observances are the people who are trying to compel you to be circumcised; and they do it only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Jesus, the Christ.


rate difficulty: He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on.

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


rate difficulty: Am I now come up without Jehovah against this place to destroy it? Jehovah said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

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


rate difficulty: And the people went out and got them and made themselves tents, every one on the roof of his house, and in the open spaces and in the open squares of the house of God, and in the wide place of the water-doorway, and the wide place of the doorway of Ephraim.

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


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


rate difficulty: He says to him, Which? And Jesus said, Do not put anyone to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness,

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


rate difficulty: Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and I will shew thee great and hidden things, which thou knowest not.

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


rate difficulty: And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and the priest shall take of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle, and put it into the water.


simplify: On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God for ever,

On that day there was a reading from the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and they saw that it said in the book that no Ammonite or Moabite might ever come into the meeting of God;


simplify: So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men, those that were to come in on the sabbath, with those that were to go out on the sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.

So the Levites and all Judah did as Jehoiada the priest had given them orders: every one took with him his men, those who were to come in and those who were to go out on the Sabbath; for Jehoiada had not sent away the divisions.


rate difficulty: For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

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


simplify: And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

And he put them in prison under the care of the captain of the army, in the same prison where Joseph himself was shut up.


rate difficulty: And the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their heritage.

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


rate difficulty: One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet;

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


simplify: But he said unto him, Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but go thou and publish abroad the kingdom of God.

But he said to him, Let the dead take care of their dead; it is for you to go and give news of the kingdom of God.


simplify: And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.

And they said, No; we will take you and give you up into their hands, but truly we will not put you to death. So knotting two new cords round him they took him up from the rock.


simplify: Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and mine ordinances; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am Jehovah.

So keep my rules and my decisions, which, if a man does them, will be life to him: I am the Lord.


simplify: And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.

And they said to him, Truly you have kept us from death; may we have grace in your eyes, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.


simplify: I will gather them that sorrow for the solemn assembly, who were of thee; to whom the burden upon her was a reproach.

I will take away your troubles, lifting up your shame from off you.


simplify: We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.

We, for Christ’s sake, are ‘fools,’ but you, by your union with Christ, are people of discernment. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are despised.


rate difficulty: A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.

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


rate difficulty: All who listened to him marveled at his intelligence and his answers.


rate difficulty: All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.

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


simplify: And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.

Then the angel said to me — ‘Do not keep secret the words of the prophecy contained in this book; for the time is near.


rate difficulty: According to his wisdom is a man praised, And the perverted of heart becometh despised.

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


rate difficulty: Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, Meek, and riding upon an ass, And upon a colt the foal of an ass.

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


simplify: Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?

Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?


simplify: And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.

And on the eighth day they had a holy meeting; the offerings for making the altar holy went on for seven days, and the feast for seven days.


simplify: For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

for no one ever yet hated his own body. But everyone feeds his body and cares for it, just as the Christ for the church;


rate difficulty: And they have known that I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah, in My scattering them among nations, and I have spread them through lands;

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


simplify: And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder:

James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John (to whom he gave the name of Boanerges, which means the Thunderers),


simplify: And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.

So all the people were in their places, the army on the north side of the town and the secret force on the west; and that night Joshua went down into the valley.


rate difficulty: But days will come when also the bridegroom will have been taken away from them; then shall they fast in those days.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: Hear attentively my speech, and let this replace your consolations.

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


simplify: And in every several city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.

And in every town he put stores of body-covers and spears, and made them very strong. And Judah and Benjamin were his.


simplify: And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.

And the shelf is fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, on its four sides; the edge round it is half a cubit; the base of it is a cubit all round, and its steps are facing the east.


rate difficulty: And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: If you do not give ear to me and go in the way of my law which I have put before you,

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


rate difficulty: The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood;


rate difficulty: So that, my brethren, ye also have been made dead to the law by the body of the Christ, to be to another, who has been raised up from among [the] dead, in order that we might bear fruit toGod.

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


simplify: But if there be in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague; it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead.

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


rate difficulty: And he said to her, What is his form? And she said, It is an old man coming up covered with a robe. And Saul saw that it was Samuel, and with his face bent down to the earth he gave him honour.

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


simplify: And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.

And while they went to get oil, the master came; and those who were ready went in with him to the feast: and the door was shut.


rate difficulty: One male of the goats for a sin-offering;

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


rate difficulty: `Ye may not, therefore, fear them, for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed, and hid, that shall not be known;

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


simplify: For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.


simplify: According to the grace of God which was given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder I laid a foundation; and another buildeth thereon. But let each man take heed how he buildeth thereon.

In the measure of the grace given to me, I, as a wise master-builder, have put the base in position, and another goes on building on it. But let every man take care what he puts on it.


simplify: because of this also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets, and apostles, and some of them they shall kill and persecute,

That is why the wisdom of God said — “I will send to them prophets and apostles,


simplify: And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with her suburbs,

And from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Mahanaim with their grass-lands;


rate difficulty: and the rain came down, and the streams came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.

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


simplify: And now the Lord your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, and unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on the other side Jordan.

And now the Lord your God has given your brothers rest, as he said: so now you may go back to your tents, to the land of your heritage, which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave to you on the other side of Jordan.


simplify: O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

O Lord, you have taken up the cause of my soul, you have made my life safe.


simplify: For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.

There is nothing hidden that will not come to light and nothing is concealed that will not be brought into the open.


rate difficulty: Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

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


simplify: Thus saith the Lord my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;

This is what the Lord my God has said: Take care of the flock of death;


simplify: And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, as every day required: and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron.

And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave what was needed by the music-makers and the door-keepers day by day: and they made the offerings holy for the Levites; and the Levites did the same for the sons of Aaron.


simplify: And behold, a woman that had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years; and she was bowed together, and could in no wise lift herself up.

And there was a woman who had had a disease for eighteen years; she was bent, and was not able to make herself straight.


rate difficulty: And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.

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


rate difficulty: And again, when thou hast accomplished these, thou shalt lie on thy right side, and shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it unto thee.

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


rate difficulty: But let endurance have [its] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

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


simplify: For we have heard how Jehovah dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan, unto Sihon and to Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.

For we have had news of how the Lord made the Red Sea dry before you when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, on the other side of Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you gave up to the curse.


rate difficulty: Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,

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


simplify: And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.

And they gave the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house.


rate difficulty: And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.

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


rate difficulty: and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor;

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


simplify: As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.

Like one who takes off clothing in cold weather and like acid on a wound, is he who makes melody to a sad heart.


simplify: they then indeed, having been scattered, went abroad proclaiming good news--the word.

Now those who were scattered in different directions went from place to place proclaiming the good news.


rate difficulty: only, the priests of the high places come not up unto the altar of Jehovah in Jerusalem, but they have eaten unleavened things in the midst of their brethren.

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


rate difficulty: For he is our peace, who made both one, and brake down the middle wall of partition,

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


rate difficulty: For I am conscious of my thoughts about you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you hope at the end.

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


simplify: And there were also two others, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.

And two others, evil-doers, were taken with him to be put to death.


simplify: A wretched man I <FI>am<Fi> ! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?

Miserable man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body that is bringing me to this death?


simplify: Let heavier work be laid upon the men, that they may labor therein; and let them not regard lying words.

Give the men harder work, and see that they do it; let them not give attention to false words.


rate difficulty: and lo, a messenger of the Lord stood over them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they feared a great fear.

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


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

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


simplify: And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.

And in that day the Lord will send punishment on the army of the high ones on high, and on the kings of the earth on the earth.


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

For her wounds may not be made well: for it has come even to Judah, stretching up to the doorway of my people, even to Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: and it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it; then shalt thou inquire diligently; and, behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel,

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


rate difficulty: `And the priest hath seen him on the second seventh day, and lo, the plague is become weak, and the plague hath not spread in the skin--and the priest hath pronounced him clean, it <FI>is<Fi>  a scab, and he hath washed his garments, and hath been clean.

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


rate difficulty: [then] shall also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites, the priests, my ministers.


rate difficulty: That they might search for God, if by any means they might feel their way to him and find him. And yet he is not really far from any one of us;


rate difficulty: The lips of the righteous feed many; But the foolish die for lack of understanding.


rate difficulty: And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam’s anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff.

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


rate difficulty: And the king--made very sorrowful--because of the oaths and of those reclining (at meat) with him, would not put her away,

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


simplify: And he cometh the third time, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: it is enough, the hour is come; behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

And he came the third time, and said to them, Go on sleeping now and take your rest: it is enough; the hour has come; see, the Son of man is given up into the hands of evil men.


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

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


simplify: And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.

And thorns will come up in her fair houses, and waste plants in her strong towers: and foxes will make their holes there, and it will be a meeting-place for ostriches.


rate difficulty: They shall come trembling as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will make them to dwell in their houses, saith Jehovah.


simplify: What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?

How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision?


simplify: And they did all eat, and were filled.


rate difficulty: When he raiseth himself up, the mighty are afraid: they are beside themselves with consternation.

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


simplify: Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people;

But still, give ear to this word which I am saying to you and to all the people:


rate difficulty: Now Jotham, on hearing of it, went to the top of Mount Gerizim, and crying out with a loud voice said to them, Give ear to me, you townsmen of Shechem, so that God may give ear to you.

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


simplify: having brought them also into his house, he set food before <FI>them<Fi> , and was glad with all the household, he having believed in God.

Afterwards he took them up to his house and set before them something to eat, rejoicing that he, with all his household, had come to believe in God.


rate difficulty: And the child Samuel ministered unto Jehovah before Eli. And the word of Jehovah was precious in those days; there was no frequent vision.

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


rate difficulty: But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the Lord hid them.

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


rate difficulty: Is it not clear, my brothers (I am using an argument to those who have knowledge of the law), that the law has power over a man as long as he is living?

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


simplify: He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

God did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up on behalf of us all; will he not, then, with him, freely give us all things?


simplify: And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who taketh in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.

And any man of Israel, or any other living among them, who gets with his bow any beast or bird used for food, is to see that its blood is covered with earth.


simplify: Then answered one of the young men, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth-lehemite, that is skilful in playing, and a mighty man of valor, and a man of war, and prudent in speech, and a comely person; and Jehovah is with him.

Then one of the servants in answer said, I have seen a son of Jesse, the Beth-lehemite, who is expert at playing, and a strong man and a man of war; and he is wise in his words, and pleasing in looks, and the Lord is with him.


simplify: And a several tenth deal to each lamb of the fourteen lambs:

And a separate tenth part for every one of the fourteen lambs;


rate difficulty: Verily I say unto you, This generation shall in no wise pass away, till all these things take place.

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


rate difficulty: Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about.

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


simplify: And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.

‘Who are you, Lord?’ I asked. And the Lord said: “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting;


simplify: Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.

As for those whose faith is weak, always receive them as friends, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on their scruples.


simplify: Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?

Was not it the same with the prostitute, Rahab? Was not it as the result of her actions that she was pronounced righteous, after she had welcomed the messengers and helped them escape by?


rate difficulty: And the Levites are keeping all the people silent, saying, `Be silent, for to-day <FI>is<Fi> holy, and be not grieved.'

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


simplify: and Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,


rate difficulty: And one of the malefactors that were hanged railed on him, saying, Art not thou the Christ? save thyself and us.

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


rate difficulty: and the second row <FI>is<Fi> emerald, sapphire, and diamond;

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


rate difficulty: But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot.

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


rate difficulty: And take twice as much money with you; that is to say, take back the money which was put in your bags, for it may have been an error;

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand.

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


rate difficulty: But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.

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


simplify: And the Lord said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.

And the Lord said to Moses, Whoever has done evil against me will be taken out of my book.


simplify: The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:

May the light of the Lord's face be shining on you in grace:


simplify: for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

Moreover, you are not your own masters; you were bought, and the price was paid. Therefore, honor God in your bodies.


simplify: Ye shall walk after Jehovah your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.

But keep on in the ways of the Lord your God, fearing him and keeping his orders and hearing his voice, worshipping him and being true to him.


rate difficulty: Go forth from its midst, O My people, And deliver ye, each his soul, Because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah,

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


simplify: And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.

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.


simplify: Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth the feet of the ox and the ass.

Happy are you who are planting seed by all the waters, and sending out the ox and the ass.


simplify: So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

So he got up and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the door of the town, he saw a widow woman getting sticks together; and crying out to her he said, Will you give me a little water in a vessel for my drink?


rate difficulty: But all the cattle and the spoil of the cities we took as booty for ourselves.


simplify: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us.


rate difficulty: Now them that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.


rate difficulty: All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.

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


rate difficulty: And Korah, son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, taketh both Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth, sons of Reuben,

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


simplify: And David said to Abner, Art not thou a valiant man? and who is like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord.

And David said to Abner, Are you not a man of war? is there any other like you in Israel? why then have you not kept watch over your lord the king? for one of the people came in to put the king your lord to death.


rate difficulty: Thou, my son, hear and be wise, and direct thy heart in the way.

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


simplify: And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the Lord the collection that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness.

And an order was sent out through all Judah and Jerusalem that payment was to be made to the Lord of the tax which Moses, the servant of God, had put on Israel in the waste land.


rate difficulty: But unto us God revealed them through the Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

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


simplify: Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the Lord will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.

Because of the day which is coming with destruction on all the Philistines, cutting off from Tyre and Zidon the last of their helpers: for the Lord will send destruction on the Philistines, the rest of the sea-land of Caphtor.


simplify: And Arpachshad begat Shelah; and Shelah begat Eber.

And Arpachshad became the father of Shelah; and Shelah became the father of Eber.


rate difficulty: But the Most High dwells not in [places] made with hands; as says the prophet,

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


simplify: `I say to you, In that night, there shall be two men on one couch, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left;

On that night, I tell you, of two people on the same bed, one will be taken and the other left;


rate difficulty: The rich and poor meet together; Jehovah is the maker of them all.


rate difficulty: Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;


simplify: The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; even by the steps whereby they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.

The covered way was twenty cubits long and twelve cubits wide, and they went up to it by ten steps; and there were pillars by the uprights, one on one side and one on the other.


rate difficulty: Whereupon as I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests,

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


simplify: (She is clamorous and wilful; Her feet abide not in her house:

She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.


rate difficulty: And God doth good to the midwives, and the people multiply, and are very mighty;

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


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

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


simplify: And Joab said unto him, Thou shalt not bear tidings this day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day: but this day thou shalt bear no tidings, because the king’s son is dead.

And Joab said, You will take no news today; another day you may give him the news, but you will take no news today, because the king's son is dead.


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

But they began arguing together: “If we say ‘divine,’ he will say ‘Why did not you believe him?’


rate difficulty: that they be bringing near sweet savours to the God of heaven, and praying for the life of the king, and of his sons.

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


simplify: Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you:


rate difficulty: And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead, in Jerusalem.

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


simplify: And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.

They said to me, The small band of Jews now living there in the land are in great trouble and shame: the wall of Jerusalem has been broken down, and its doorways burned with fire.


rate difficulty: And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar?

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


simplify: I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;

I am thankful that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,


simplify: And whosoever in the open field toucheth one that is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

And anyone touching one who has been put to death with the sword in the open country, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or a man's bone, or the resting-place of a dead body, will be unclean for seven days.


rate difficulty: Understand, then, that this salvation of God was sent for the Gentiles; and they will listen.”


rate difficulty: For if the war-horn gives out an uncertain note, who will get ready for the fight?


rate difficulty: who only hath immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power eternal. Amen.

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


rate difficulty: But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.

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


simplify: because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world--our faith;

because all that has received the new life from God conquers the world. And this is the power that has conquered the world — our faith!


rate difficulty: But he said, Give them food yourselves. And they said, We have only five cakes of bread and two fishes, if we do not go and get food for all these people.


simplify: And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

And after touching my mouth with it, he said, See, your lips have been touched with this; and your evil is taken away, and you are made clean from sin.


rate difficulty: And mine enemy shall see [it], and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is Jehovah thyGod? Mine eyes shall behold her; now shall she be trodden down, as the mire of the streets.


simplify: And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the Lord, and his own house,

Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the house of the Lord and a house for himself,


simplify: Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

Therefore, from among the men who have been with us all the time that Jesus, our Master, went in and out among us —


rate difficulty: Whenever they betray you, do not be anxious as to how you will speak or what you will say, for what you will say will be given you at the moment;

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


simplify: And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.

And when the time had come, he sent his servants to say to them, Come, for all things are now ready.


simplify: and he released him who because of sedition and murder hath been cast into the prison, whom they were asking, and Jesus he gave up to their will.

He released the man who had been put in prison for riot and murder, as they demanded, and gave Jesus up to be dealt with as they pleased.


rate difficulty: So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

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


simplify: For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”


rate difficulty: And their head they do not shave, and the lock they do not send forth; they certainly poll their heads.

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


rate difficulty: Who is this that darkeneth counsel By words without knowledge?

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


rate difficulty: but if ye also should suffer because of righteousness, happy <FI>are ye<Fi> ! and of their fear be not afraid, nor be troubled,

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


simplify: Thou didst tread the sea with thy horses, The heap of mighty waters.

The feet of your horses were on the sea, on the mass of great waters.


simplify: Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:

Then let the meeting of the people be judge between the man responsible for the death and him who has the right of punishment for blood, acting by these rules:


simplify: In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:


rate difficulty: Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah; say unto him, Forgive all iniquity, and receive [us] graciously; so will we render the calves of our lips.

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


simplify: Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

You are the children of the Lord your God: you are not to make cuts on your bodies or take off the hair on your brows in honour of the dead;


simplify: He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.

He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.


simplify: I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.

I see that you are able to do every thing, and to give effect to all your designs.


rate difficulty: Bezer, in the wilderness, in the land of the plain, of the Reubenite; and Ramoth, in Gilead, of the Gadite; and Golan, in Bashan, of the Manassahite.


rate difficulty: Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters, and all the people of his house, and his beasts and his cattle and all his goods which he had got together in the land of Canaan, and went into the land of Seir, away from his brother Jacob.

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


simplify: But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.

But truly, as I am living, and as all the earth will be full of the glory of the Lord;


rate difficulty: And He inclineth heaven, and cometh down, And thick darkness <FI>is<Fi> under His feet.

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


rate difficulty: and Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,

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


rate difficulty: I am only making suggestions on this matter; for this is the best course for you, since you were a year before others, not only in taking action, but also in showing your readiness to do so.


rate difficulty: So on the day after, when Agrippa and Bernice in great glory had come into the public place of hearing, with the chief of the army and the chief men of the town, at the order of Festus, Paul was sent for.

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


simplify: And his tail draweth the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon standeth before the woman that is about to be delivered, that when she is delivered he may devour her child.

And his tail was pulling a third part of the stars of heaven down to the earth, and the dragon took his place before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when the birth had taken place he might put an end to her child.


rate difficulty: in the stretching forth of Thy hand, for healing, and signs, and wonders, to come to pass through the name of Thy holy child Jesus.'

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


rate difficulty: And with our hands we do the hardest work: when they give us curses we give blessings, when we undergo punishment we take it quietly;


simplify: And the people blessed all the men, that willingly offered themselves to dwell at Jerusalem.

And the people gave a blessing to all the men who were freely offering to take up their places in Jerusalem.


simplify: But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.


simplify: Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.

and he cried in a loud voice — ‘Reverence God, and give him praise (for the hour of his judgment has come) and worship him who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all springs of water.’


simplify: According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number.

Whatever number you make ready, so you are to do for every one.


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities;

This is what the Lord of armies has said: It will again come about that when peoples and those living in great towns come,


simplify: And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter at the east gate, was over the freewill-offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of Jehovah, and the most holy things.

And Kore, the son of Imnah the Levite, the keeper of the east door, had control of the offerings freely given to God, and the distribution of the offerings of the Lord and the most holy things.


simplify: They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea.

There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain: for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the sea is covered by the waters.


rate difficulty: And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.

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


simplify: how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.

How, meeting you on the way, he made an attack on you when you were tired and without strength, cutting off all the feeble ones at the end of your line; and the fear of God was not in him.


rate difficulty: And when Stephen your witness was put to death, I was there, giving approval, and looking after the clothing of those who put him to death.

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


simplify: And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.


simplify: His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.


rate difficulty: Ask thy young men, and they will tell thee: wherefore let the young men find favor in thine eyes; for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thy hand, unto thy servants, and to thy son David.

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


rate difficulty: The sons of Hassenaah were the builders of the fish doorway; they put its boards in place and put up its doors, with their locks and rods.

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


rate difficulty: --They are pouring out gold from a bag, And silver on the beam they weigh, They hire a refiner, and he maketh it a god, They fall down, yea, they bow themselves.

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


simplify: Then answered Haggai and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith Jehovah; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.

Then Haggai said, So is this people and so is this nation before me, says the Lord; and so is every work of their hands; and the offering they give there is unclean.


simplify: And next unto them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, even over against his house. And next unto him repaired Hattush the son of Hashabniah.

By his side was Jedaiah, the son of Harumaph, opposite his house. And by him was Hattush, the son of Hashabneiah.


rate difficulty: But now, having no longer any place in these parts and having had for a number of years a great desire to come to you,

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


simplify: And they removed from Jotbathah, and encamped at Ebronah.

And they went on from Jotbathah, and put up their tents in Abronah.


simplify: David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.

And David had taken Ahinoam of Jezreel, to be his wife; these two were his wives.


rate difficulty: Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be the slain of my sword.


rate difficulty: But he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.

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


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah, who maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;

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


simplify: whose end <FI>is<Fi> destruction, whose god <FI>is<Fi> the belly, and whose glory <FI>is<Fi> in their shame, who the things on earth are minding.

The end of such people is ruin; for their appetites are their God, and they glory in their shame; their minds are given up to earthly things.


rate difficulty: And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.


simplify: But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.

But Solomon did not make use of the children of Israel as servants for his work; they were men of war, his chiefs and his captains, and captains of his war-carriages and his horsemen.


rate difficulty: Then they said to Joshua in answer, Whatever you say to us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.

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


rate difficulty: Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.

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


simplify: And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the Lord to minister unto him.

And the room facing north is for the priests who have the care of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok, who, from among the sons of Levi, come near to the Lord to do the work of his house.


simplify: And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.

Pray, too, that this may not occur in winter.


rate difficulty: He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.

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


simplify: Let mine outcasts dwell with thee; as for Moab, be thou a covert to him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nought, destruction ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

Let those who have been forced out of Moab have a resting-place with you; be a cover to them from him who is making waste their land: till the cruel ones are cut off, and wasting has come to an end, and those who take pleasure in crushing the poor are gone from the land.


rate difficulty: But so you may know that the Son of Man has power to forgive sins on earth”— here he said to the paralyzed man —

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


simplify: Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.

For this reason I will send you away out of this land into a land which is strange to you, to you and to your fathers; there you will be the servants of other gods day and night, and you will have no mercy from me.


simplify: And Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this sickness.

Now Ahaziah had a fall from the window of his room in Samaria, and was ill. And he sent men, and said to them, Put a question to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, about the outcome of my disease, to see if I will get well or not.


rate difficulty: For, as it seems to me, God has exhibited us, the apostles, last of all, as people doomed to death. We are made a spectacle to the universe, both to angels and to people!

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


simplify: And he said, `Who art thou, Lord?' and the Lord said, `I am Jesus whom thou dost persecute; hard for thee at the pricks to kick;'

“Who are you, Lord?” he asked.   “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,”the voice answered;


simplify: For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.


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


rate difficulty: At the head of the army of the children of Asher was Pagiel, the son of Ochran.


simplify: And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.

And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Take the child away and give it milk for me, and I will give you payment. And the woman took the child and gave it milk at her breast.


rate difficulty: This people doth draw nigh to Me with their mouth, and with the lips it doth honour Me, but their heart is far off from Me;

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


rate difficulty: A land of gloom, as darkness itself; of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as thick darkness.


simplify: Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.

And while you are still talking there with the king, see, I will come in after you and say that your story is true.


simplify: Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,

Jediael, the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,


simplify: And it shall be, when he lieth down, that thou shalt mark the place where he shall lie, and thou shalt go in, and uncover his feet, and lay thee down; and he will tell thee what thou shalt do.

But see to it, when he goes to rest, that you take note of the place where he is sleeping, and go in there, and, uncovering his feet, take your place by him; and he will say what you are to do.


simplify: for they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.

For they are a danger to you with their false ways, causing sin to come on you in the question of Peor, and because of Cozbi, their sister, the daughter of the chief of Midian, who was put to death at the time of the disease which came on you because of Peor.


rate difficulty: How hath it been broken down! they have howled, How hath Moab turned the neck ashamed, And Moab hath been for a derision. And for a terror to all round about her.

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


rate difficulty: That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.

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


simplify: And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.

It happened that very day that two of the disciples were going to a village called Emmaus, which was about seven miles from Jerusalem,


rate difficulty: and that they proclaim and cause to pass over all their cities, (and in Jerusalem,) saying, `Go ye out to the mount, and bring leaves of the olive, and leaves of the oil tree, and leaves of the myrtle, and leaves of the palms, and leaves of thick trees, to make booths as it is written.'

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


simplify: Ascold waters to a thirsty soul, So is good news from a far country.

As cold water to a tired soul, so is good news from a far country.


simplify: Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: they all gather themselves together, they come to thee; thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be carried in the arms.

Let your eyes be lifted up, and see: they are all coming together to you: your sons will come from far, and your daughters taken with loving care.


rate difficulty: Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.


simplify: And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.

And every offering lifted up of all the holy things which the children of Israel give to the priest, will be his.


rate difficulty: And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.

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


rate difficulty: And he built fortified cities in Judah, for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because Jehovah had given him rest.

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


rate difficulty: Then Job answered and said,

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


simplify: Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,

Abiezer the Anathothite, Sibbecai the Hushathite,


rate difficulty: Jehovah do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my father to do thee evil, if I disclose it not unto thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and Jehovah be with thee, as he hath been with my father.

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


simplify: Now therefore, if ye have dealt truly and uprightly, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands

So now, if you have done truly and uprightly in making Abimelech king, and if you have done well to Jerubbaal and his house in reward for the work of his hands;


rate difficulty: And he spake a parable unto them to the end that they ought always to pray, and not to faint;

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


simplify: But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:

But those to whom is given the reward of the world to come, and to come back from the dead, have no wives, and are not married;


rate difficulty: We will go over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, and you will give us our heritage on this side of Jordan.


rate difficulty: And he shall put of the blood upon the horns of the altar which is before Jehovah, that is in the tent of meeting; and all the blood shall he pour out at the base of the altar of burnt-offering, which is at the door of the tent of meeting.

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


simplify: And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.

And after this Job had a hundred and forty years of life, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.


rate difficulty: And his son said to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes: I am no longer good enough to be named your son.


simplify: Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.

Now when he came near the door of the town, a dead man was being taken out, the only son of his mother, who was a widow: and a great number of people from the town were with her.


rate difficulty: And he maketh fifty loops on the outer edge of the curtain, in the joining; and fifty loops he hath made on the edge of the curtain which is joining the second;

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


simplify: Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

You yourselves have seen that with these hands I got what was necessary for me and those who were with me.


simplify: For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

For what interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended?


simplify: And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.

And he said to her, Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be free from your disease.


simplify: And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.

And when he had come to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes, there came out to him from the place of the dead, two who had evil spirits, so violent that no man was able to go that way.


simplify: And he sent messengers unto Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me.

So he sent men to Balaam, son of Beor, at Pethor by the River in the land of the children of his people, saying to him, See, a people has come out of Egypt, covering all the face of the earth, and they have put up their tents opposite to me:


rate difficulty: And Ezra the priest got to his feet and said to them, You have done wrong and taken strange women for your wives, so increasing the sin of Israel.

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


simplify: blessed is the coming reign, in the name of the Lord, of our father David; Hosanna in the highest.'

Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! ‘God save him from on high!’”


rate difficulty: If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.

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


rate difficulty: And Samuel called the people together to Jehovah to Mizpah.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses gave [a portion] to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad according to their families.

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


simplify: Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed throughout your generations, that approacheth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto Jehovah, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from before me: I am Jehovah.

Say to them, If any man of all your seed through all your generations, being unclean, comes near the holy things which the children of Israel make holy to the Lord, he will be cut off from before me: I am the Lord.


simplify: Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.

But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.


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

Not taking credit to ourselves for what is not our business, that is, for the work of others; but having hope that, with the growth of your faith, we may get the credit for an increase which is the effect of our work,


simplify: that say, The time is not near to build houses: this city is the caldron, and we are the flesh.

Who say, This is not the time for building houses: this town is the cooking-pot and we are the flesh.


simplify: Dan shall judge his people, As one of the tribes of Israel.

Dan will be the judge of his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.


rate difficulty: And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of the years, according to the days of a hired servant shall he be with him.

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


simplify: For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.

For Amos has said, Jeroboam will be put to the sword, and Israel will certainly be taken away as a prisoner out of his land.


simplify: Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.

See, the people who are in you are women; the doorways of your land are wide open to your attackers: the locks of your doors have been burned away in the fire.


simplify: Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.

Then Saul took three thousand of the best men out of all Israel, and went in search of David and his men on the rocks of the mountain goats.


simplify: And the Lord rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.

Rooting them out of their land, in the heat of his wrath and passion, and driving them out into another land, as at this day.


rate difficulty: After two days is the Passover, and the Son of man will be given up to the death of the cross.

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


simplify: And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.

And when they had had enough food, they made the weight of the ship less, turning the grain out into the sea.


simplify: If a man shall deliver unto his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man’s house; if the thief be found, he shall pay double.

If a man puts money or goods in the care of his neighbour to keep for him, and it is taken from the man's house, if they get the thief, he will have to make payment of twice the value.


simplify: And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.

And anyone wounding a beast and causing its death, will have to make payment for it: a life for a life.


rate difficulty: And the Lord hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings.

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


simplify: And the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of Jehovah went on continually, and blew the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; and the rearward came after the ark of Jehovah, the priests blowing the trumpets as they went.

And the seven priests with their seven horns went on before the ark of the Lord, blowing their horns: the armed men went before them, and the mass of the people went after the ark of the Lord, blowing their horns.


rate difficulty: Is not this the word that we spake unto thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.

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


simplify: And His kindness <FI>is<Fi> to generations of generations, To those fearing Him,

From age to age his mercy rests On those who honor him.


simplify: and if by grace, no more of works, otherwise the grace becometh no more grace; and if of works, it is no more grace, otherwise the work is no more work.

But if in love, then no longer as a result of obedience. Otherwise love would cease to be love.


rate difficulty: The sons of Merari: of Jaaziah, Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri.

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


simplify: Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.


rate difficulty: `And the priest hath taken the boiled shoulder from the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one thin unleavened cake, and hath put on the palms of the Nazarite after his shaving his separation;

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


rate difficulty: That night the Lord came to him in a vision, and said, I am the God of your father Abraham: have no fear for I am with you, blessing you, and your seed will be increased because of my servant Abraham.

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


simplify: And I heard the noise of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them, even the noise of a great rushing.

And there was the sound of the wings of the living beings touching one another, and the sound of the wheels at their side, the sound of a great rushing.


simplify: Again, the devil taketh him unto an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;

Again, the Evil One took him up to a very high mountain, and let him see all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them;


simplify: So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing, with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed over unto him, and cast his mantle upon him.

So he went away from there and came across Elisha, the son of Shaphat, ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen, he himself walking with the twelfth; and Elijah went up to him and put his robe on him.


rate difficulty: For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

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


simplify: And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.

Now one day, when the child was older, he went out to his father to where the grain was being cut.


simplify: In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:

And in those days I saw the Jews who were married to women of Ashdod and Ammon and Moab:


simplify: And on the second day ye shall offer twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:

On the second day of the feast give an offering of twelve oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark on them;


simplify: And ye shall know that I am the Lord: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.

And you will be certain that I am the Lord: for you have not been guided by my rules or given effect to my orders, but you have been living by the orders of the nations round about you.


simplify: For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:

Seeing that the Jews make request for signs, and the Greeks are looking for knowledge:


simplify: Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore is my wrath poured out upon this place, and it shall not be quenched.

Because they have given me up, burning offerings to other gods and moving me to wrath by all the works of their hands; so my wrath is let loose on this place and will not be put out.


simplify: And afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering the burnt-offerings and the fat until night: therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.

And after that, they made ready for themselves and for the priests; for the priests, the sons of Aaron, were offering the burned offerings and the fat till night; so the Levites made ready what was needed for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.


rate difficulty: Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and let your voice come to it; for their evil-doing has come up before me.

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


simplify: For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.

Because of the sin of the land, its troubles are increased; but by a man of wisdom and knowledge they will be put out like a fire.


rate difficulty: The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold, a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners! And wisdom is justified by her works.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, in their being there, the days were fulfilled for her bringing forth,


simplify: But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring back the captivity of Elam, saith Jehovah.

But it will come about that, in the last days, I will let the fate of Elam be changed, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And his disciples asked him [saying], What may this parable be?


simplify: And I saw, and I heard one messenger, flying in the mid-heaven, saying with a great voice, `Woe, woe, woe, to those dwelling upon the land from the rest of the voices of the trumpet of the three messengers who are about to sound.'

And, in my vision, I heard an eagle flying in mid-heaven and crying in a loud voice — ‘Woe, woe, woe for all who live on the earth, at the other trumpet-blasts of the three angels who have yet to blow.’


simplify: So he called every one of his lord’s debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?

And sending for every one who was in debt to his lord he said to the first, What is the amount of your debt to my lord?


simplify: For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:

For when the Gentiles without the law have a natural desire to do the things in the law, they are a law to themselves;


simplify: And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him, Art thou made of the king’s counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.

But while he was talking to him the king said to him, Have we made you one of the king's government? say no more, or it will be the cause of your death. Then the prophet gave up protesting, and said, It is clear to me that God's purpose is your destruction, because you have done this and have not given ear to my words.


simplify: Before I was aware, my soul set me Amongthe chariots of my princely people.


simplify: And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.

Then Shaphan the scribe said to the king, Hilkiah the priest has given me a book; and he was reading it before the king.


rate difficulty: of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

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


simplify: The children of Binnui, six hundred forty and eight.

The children of Binnui, six hundred and forty-eight.


rate difficulty: And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich.


rate difficulty: The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.

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


rate difficulty: And when the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were overcome by Israel, they made peace with David and became his servants: and the Aramaeans would give no more help to the children of Ammon.

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


simplify: Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

Grieve, mourn, and lament! Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your happiness to gloom!


rate difficulty: And the world, and all that it gratifies, is passing away, but they who do God’s will remains for ever.

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


simplify: If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the Lord, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the Lord would slay them.

If one man does wrong to another, God will be his judge: but if a man's sin is against the Lord, who will take up his cause? But they gave no attention to the voice of their father, for it was the Lord's purpose to send destruction on them.


simplify: Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.


simplify: Now when they were departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I tell thee: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.

And when they had gone, an angel of the Lord came to Joseph in a dream, saying, Get up and take the young child and his mother, and go into Egypt, and do not go from there till I give you word; for Herod will be searching for the young child to put him to death.


rate difficulty: But saying true words in love, may come to full growth in him, who is the head, even Christ;


simplify: And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did the work of cutting them, and put edges on them, and got the wood and the stone ready for the building of the house.


simplify: And Pharaoh’s servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve Jehovah their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?

And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long is this man to be the cause of evil to us? let the men go so that they may give worship to the Lord their God: are you not awake to Egypt's danger?


rate difficulty: But Judah will be peopled for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

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


simplify: And Jesus having passed thence, came nigh unto the sea of Galilee, and having gone up to the mountain, he was sitting there,

On leaving that place, Jesus went to the shore of the Sea of Galilee; and then went up the hill, and sat down., you will do what not only what has been done to the fig tree, but, even if you should say to this hill ‘Be lifted up and hurled into the sea!’ it would be done.


simplify: and he who did call thee and him having come shall say to thee, Give to this one place, and then thou mayest begin with shame to occupy the last place.

and the host who invited you both will come and say to you ‘Make room for this person,’ and then you will begin in confusion to take the lowest place.


simplify: and immediately I was in the Spirit, and lo, a throne was set in the heaven, and upon the throne is <FI>one<Fi> sitting,

Immediately after this I fell into a trance. There stood a throne in heaven, and on the throne was One seated.


rate difficulty: And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:


rate difficulty: Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?

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


rate difficulty: and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.

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


rate difficulty: Or anything about which he took a false oath; he will have to give it all back, with the addition of a fifth of its value, to him whose property it is, when he has been judged to be in the wrong.


rate difficulty: If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the Lord, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;

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


rate difficulty: I heard, and my body trembled, My lips quivered at the voice; Rottenness entereth into my bones, and I tremble in my place; Because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, For the coming up of the people that invadeth us.

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


rate difficulty: But for all this, you had no faith in the Lord your God,


rate difficulty: therefore thus saith Jehovah theGod of hosts, theGod of Israel: Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken unto them, but they have not hearkened, and I have called unto them, but they have not answered.

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


simplify: Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth; How much more the wicked and the sinner!

If the upright man is rewarded on earth, how much more the evil-doer and the sinner!


rate difficulty: That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.

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


simplify: For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,

There have indeed gathered together in this city against your holy servant Jesus, whom you has consecrated the Christ, not Herod and Pontius Pilate only, but the nations and the people of Israel besides —


simplify: But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.

But if any man is without knowledge, let him be so.


rate difficulty: (All Athenians and the foreigners staying in the city found no time for anything else but telling, or listening to, the last new thing.)

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


rate difficulty: I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

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


simplify: Then David the king went in, and sat before Jehovah; and he said, Who am I, O Lord Jehovah, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me thus far?

Then David the king went in and took his seat before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that you have been my guide till now?


rate difficulty: For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;

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


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh commanded [his] men concerning him, and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

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


simplify: In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them,

In those days again, when there was a great mass of people and they had no food, he made his disciples come to him and said to them,


simplify: Then Pharaoh’s army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem.

And Pharaoh's army had come out from Egypt: and the Chaldaeans, who were attacking Jerusalem, hearing news of them, went away from Jerusalem.)


rate difficulty: and he washeth his face, and goeth out, and refraineth himself, and saith, `Place bread.'

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


rate difficulty: For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.

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


simplify: Ye, then, that which ye heard from the beginning, in you let it remain; if in you may remain that which from the beginning ye did hear, ye also in the Son and in the Father shall remain,

As for you, let what you were told at the first be always in your thoughts. If, then, what you were told at the first is always in your thoughts, you yourselves will maintain your union both with the Son and with the Father.