simplify: And he said unto them, Follow after me; for Jehovah hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and suffered not a man to pass over.

And he said to them, Come after me; for the Lord has given the Moabites, your haters, into your hands. So they went down after him and took the crossing-places of Jordan against Moab, and let no one go across.


rate difficulty: Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full from extortion and excess.

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


simplify: O thou daughter that dwellest in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.

O daughter living in Egypt, make ready the vessels of a prisoner: for Noph will become a waste, it will be burned up and become unpeopled.


simplify: Therefore loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis;

So, from Troas we went straight by ship to Samothrace and the day after to Neapolis;


rate difficulty: And he answering said unto them, `I will question you--I also--one thing, and tell me:

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


rate difficulty: From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty.

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


simplify: These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.

It is the desire of these men to be at peace with us; let them then go on living in this country and doing trade here, for the country is wide open before them; let us take their daughters as wives and let us give them our daughters.


simplify: I say this to move you to shame. What, cannot there be found among you one wise man who shall be able to decide between his brethren,

I say this to put you to shame. Is there not among you one wise man who may be able to give a decision between his brothers?


simplify: they say to him, `Sir, that our eyes may be opened;'

“Master,” they replied, “we want our eyes to be opened.”


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

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


rate difficulty: but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;

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


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

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


simplify: and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.

and that ‘hope never disappoints.’ For the love of God has filled our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given us;


simplify: And the fishers shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

The fishermen will be sad, and all those who put fishing-lines into the Nile will be full of grief, and those whose nets are stretched out on the waters will have sorrow in their hearts.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.

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


rate difficulty: For this reason the Lord, the saviour of Abraham, says about the family of Jacob, Jacob will not now be put to shame, or his face be clouded with fear.

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


simplify: And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my robe, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.

And hearing this, with signs of grief and pulling out the hair of my head and my chin, I took my seat on the earth deeply troubled.


rate difficulty: And Saul, conscious that the voice was David's, said, Is that your voice, David, my son? And David said, It is my voice, O my lord king.


rate difficulty: And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know judgment?

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


simplify: Therefore, O Oholibah, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy soul is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side:

For this cause, O Oholibah, this is what the Lord has said: See, I will make your lovers come up against you, even those from whom your soul is turned away in disgust; and I will make them come up against you on every side;


simplify: He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life is yet whole in me.

Then he said to me, Come here to my side, and put me to death, for the pain of death has me in its grip but my life is still strong in me.


simplify: That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?

So that this may be a sign among you; when your children say to you in time to come, What is the reason for these stones?


simplify: Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: For if we died together--we also shall live together;

How true this saying is — ‘If we have shared his death, we will also share his life.


simplify: And the first-born of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety; and I will kill thy root with famine, and thy remnant shall be slain.

And the poorest of the land will have food, and those in need will be given a safe resting-place: but your seed will come to an end for need of food, and the rest of you will be put to the sword.


simplify: And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.


simplify: Not so shall it be among you: but whosoever would become great among you shall be your minister;

Let it not be so among you: but if anyone has a desire to become great among you, let him be your servant;


rate difficulty: And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith Jehovah, By the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall begin the battle? And he answered, Thou.

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


rate difficulty: Hear ye therefore the word of the Lord, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: easy


simplify: And thou shalt consume all the peoples that Jehovah thy God shall deliver unto thee; thine eye shall not pity them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.

And you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives into your hands; have no pity on them, and do not give worship to their gods; for that will be a cause of sin to you.


simplify: and the Lord said to him, Loose the sandal of thy feet, for the place in which thou hast stood is holy ground;

Then the Lord said to him — ‘Take your sandals off your feet, for the spot where you are standing is holy ground.


rate difficulty: But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he hath done shall be remembered: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

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


rate difficulty: But the ark of God had David brought up from Kiriath-jearim to the place that David had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.

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


simplify: and stedfastness, approvedness; and approvedness, hope:

And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope:


rate difficulty: For who knoweth what <FI>is<Fi> good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?

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


simplify: see, therefore, it may not come upon you that hath been spoken in the prophets:

Beware, therefore, that what is said in the prophets does not come true of you —


rate difficulty: See, the days will come, says the Lord, when the ploughman will overtake him who is cutting the grain, and the crusher of the grapes him who is planting seed; and sweet wine will be dropping from the mountains, and the hills will be turned into streams of wine.

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


simplify: For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

for I had determined that, while with you, I would forget everything Jesus Christ — and him crucified!


simplify: And Jehovah said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do: and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.

And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs.


simplify: Go and speak to Ebed–melech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished in that day before thee.

Go and say to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, my words will come true for this town, for evil and not for good: they will come about before your eyes on that day.


rate difficulty: Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.

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


rate difficulty: An astonishing and horrible thing hath been in the land.

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


simplify: And Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

And Abraham came to his death, an old man, full of years; and he was put to rest with his people.


simplify: He prayeth unto God, and he is favorable unto him, So that he seeth his face with joy: And he restoreth unto man his righteousness.

He makes his prayer to God, and he has mercy on him; he sees God's face with cries of joy; he gives news of his righteousness to men;


simplify: and they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings <FI>is<Fi> as the noise of chariots of many horses running to battle;

and they had what seemed to be iron breastplates, while the noise of their wings was like the noise of chariots drawn by many horses, galloping into battle.


rate difficulty: And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring upon thee the blood of wrath and jealousy.

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


simplify: But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

But the sight of the crowds of people filled the minds of the Jews with jealousy, and they kept contradicting Paul’s statements in violent language.


rate difficulty: For this cause, the days are coming, says the Lord, when it will no longer be named Topheth, or, The valley of the son of Hinnom, but, The valley of Death: for they will put the dead into the earth in Topheth till there is no more room.

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


simplify: The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.

The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the upright man running into it is safe.


rate difficulty: And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise.

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


rate difficulty: And he came preaching peace to you who were far off, and to those who were near;

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


simplify: Wherefore thou art great, O Lord God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

Truly you are great, O Lord God: there is no one like you and no other God but you, as is clear from everything which has come to our ears.


simplify: And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.

And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, Nahor's wife.


simplify: And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

And the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite,


simplify: having the glory of God, and her light <FI>is<Fi> like a stone most precious, as a jasper stone clear as crystal,

Its brilliance was like a precious stone, like a jasper, transparent as crystal.


rate difficulty: `And it hath laid siege to thee in all thy gates, till thy walls come down, the high and the fenced ones in which thou art trusting, in all thy land; yea, it hath laid siege to thee in all thy gates, in all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given to thee;

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 15 | difficulty: hard


simplify: O Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, that sittest above the cherubim, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.

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


rate difficulty: Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; And he that regardeth his master shall be honored.

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


rate difficulty: And they passed thence unto the hill-country of Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah.

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


simplify: But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them.

But the people were moved by the chief priests to make him let Barabbas go free.


simplify: And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.

And everything on which she has been resting, while she is kept separate, will be unclean, and everything on which she has been seated will be unclean.


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

And he said to her, Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.


simplify: Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.

So, then, where God wills, he takes pity, and where he wills, he hardens the heart.


rate difficulty: Teach us what we shall say unto him; For we cannot set our speech in order by reason of darkness.

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


rate difficulty: She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.

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


rate difficulty: And said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let our request come before you, and make prayer for us to the Lord your God, even for this small band of us; for we are only a small band out of what was a great number, as your eyes may see:

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


rate difficulty: And David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has commanded me a business, and has said to me, Let no man know anything of the business whereon I send thee, and what I have commanded thee; and I have directed the young men to such and such a place.

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


rate difficulty: In whose hand <FI>is<Fi> the breath of every living thing, And the spirit of all flesh of man.'

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


rate difficulty: Who is wise, that he may understand these things? prudent, that he may know them? for the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but transgressors shall fall therein.


simplify: And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.

As the people were listening to this, Jesus went on to tell them a parable. He did so because he was near Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God was going to be proclaimed at once.


simplify: Wherefore I make known unto you, that no man speaking in the Spirit of God saith, Jesus is anathema; and no man can say, Jesus is Lord, but in the Holy Spirit.

So it is my desire for you to be clear about this; that no one is able to say by the Spirit of God that Jesus is cursed; and no one is able to say that Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.


rate difficulty: My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.

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


simplify: With arrows and with bow shall one come thither, because all the land shall be briers and thorns.

Men will come there with bows and arrows, because all the land will be full of blackberries and thorns.


rate difficulty: So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day, and gave them a rule and a law in Shechem.


rate difficulty: And he went in, talking with him, and found many gathered together.

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


simplify: O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.


simplify: Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the Lord.

But only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, he will see it; and to him and to his children I will give the land over which his feet have gone, because he has been true to the Lord with all his heart.


rate difficulty: And he said, The kings of the Gentiles are lords over them, and those who have authority are given names of honour.

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


simplify: And their eyes were opened. And Jesus strictly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.

And their eyes were made open. And Jesus said to them sharply, Let no man have knowledge of it.


simplify: And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.

Then they said to him, We have come down to take you and give you up into the hands of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Give me your oath that you will not make an attack on me yourselves.


simplify: Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.

Who, when he came and saw the grace of God, was glad; and he made clear to them the need of keeping near the Lord with all the strength of their hearts:


rate difficulty: Speak, Thus saith the Lord, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.

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


rate difficulty: in like manner also the second, and the third, unto the seventh,

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


simplify: And these are the numbers of the heads of them that were armed for war, who came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of Jehovah.

These are the numbers of the chiefs of the armed men, ready for war, who came to David at Hebron, to give the kingdom of Saul into his hands, as the Lord had said.


rate difficulty: be strong and courageous, for thou--thou dost cause this people to inherit the land which I have sworn to their fathers to give to them.

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


simplify: And no man, when he hath lighted a lamp, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but putteth it on a stand, that they that enter in may see the light.

No man, when the light is lighted, puts a cover over it, or puts it under a bed, but he puts it on its table, so that those who come in may see the light.


rate difficulty: And Esau seeth that Isaac hath blessed Jacob, and hath sent him to Padan-Aram to take to himself from thence a wife--in his blessing him that he layeth a charge upon him, saying, Thou dost not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan--

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


rate difficulty: The work of his hands Thou hast blessed, and his substance hath spread in the land, and yet, put forth, I pray Thee, Thy hand, and strike against anything that he hath--if not: to Thy face he doth bless Thee!'

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


rate difficulty: But I remain in Ephesus until Pentecost.


simplify: And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the Lord is his treasure.

And she will have no more fear of change, being full of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of the Lord is her wealth.


rate difficulty: And five curtains were joined together, and the other five curtains were joined together.

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


simplify: and they feared a great fear, and said one to another, `Who, then, is this, that even the wind and the sea do obey him?'

But they were struck with great awe, and said to one another: “Who can this be that even the wind and the sea obey him?”


simplify: And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord Jehovah, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? would that we had been content and dwelt beyond the Jordan!

And Joshua said, O Lord God, why have you taken us over Jordan only to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction? If only it had been enough for us to keep on the other side of Jordan!


simplify: Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.

On account of such a one I will have glory: for myself I will take no glory, but only in my feeble body.


simplify: And the damsel was very fair; and she cherished the king, and ministered to him; but the king knew her not.

Now she was very beautiful; and she took care of the king, waiting on him at all times; but the king had no connection with her.


rate difficulty: Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,

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


simplify: And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:

Just as Paul was on the point of speaking, Gallio said to them:   “If this were a case of misdemeanor or some serious crime, there would be some reason for my listening patiently to you;


rate difficulty: For also the Son of man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and give his life a ransom for many.


rate difficulty: And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joists, and brass in abundance without weight;

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


simplify: And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.

And when the seven thunders had given out their voices, I was about to put their words down: and a voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Keep secret the things which the seven thunders said, and do not put them in writing.


rate difficulty: When thou begettest sons, and sons' sons, and ye have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, the form of anything, and do evil in the sight of Jehovah thyGod, to provoke him to anger,

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


rate difficulty: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath an issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean.

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


simplify: And he said to him also that had bidden him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kinsmen, nor rich neighbors; lest haply they also bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee.

And he said to the master of the house, When you give a feast, do not send for your friends and your brothers and your family or your neighbours who have wealth, for they may give a feast for you, and so you will get a reward.


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

Now on the day after, an evil spirit from God came on Saul with great force and he was acting like a prophet among the men of his house, while David was making music for him, as he did day by day: and Saul had his spear in his hand.


simplify: For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

For Christ himself died to atone for sins once for all — the good on behalf of the bad — that he might bring you to God; his body being put to death, but his spirit entering on new life.


simplify: for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the great fish, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.


simplify: Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the way; But wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.


rate difficulty: Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

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


rate difficulty: one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering;


simplify: and Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at 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.


simplify: Be not therefore anxious for the morrow, for the morrow shall be anxious for its own things; sufficient for the day <FI>is<Fi> the evil of it.

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own anxieties. Every day has trouble enough of its own.


simplify: And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house.

And whenever you go into a house, first say, Peace be to this house.


simplify: who didst set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, both in Israel and among other men; and madest thee a name, as at this day;

You have done signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and even to this day, in Israel and among other men; and have made a name for yourself as at this day;


rate difficulty: But there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will certainly give you his blessing in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage;

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


rate difficulty: Give out the news in the great houses of Assyria and in the land of Egypt, and say, Come together on the mountains of Samaria, and see what great outcries are there, and what cruel acts are done in it.

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


simplify: Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;


rate difficulty: And when sabbath was come he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing were amazed, saying, Whence [has] this [man] these things? and what [is] the wisdom that is given to him, and such works of power are done by his hands?

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


simplify: And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the Lord, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel.

And the women said to Naomi, A blessing on the Lord, who has not let you be this day without a near relation, and may his name be great in Israel.


rate difficulty: The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,

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


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

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


rate difficulty: Ye stand this day all of you before Jehovah your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,

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


rate difficulty: For each tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore hear ye the counsel of Jehovah, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them away, even the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.

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


simplify: And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.

On leaving that place, Jesus went into the district of Judea on the other side of the Jordan. Crowds gathered about him again; and again, as usual, he began teaching them.


simplify: neither will I cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.

And never again will I send the feet of Israel wandering from the land which I gave to their fathers; if only they will take care to do all my orders, and keep all the law which my servant Moses gave them.


simplify: And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; who also was gathered after him: and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.

And he sent through all Manasseh, and they came after him; and he sent to Asher and Zebulun and Naphtali, and they came up and were joined to the others.


rate difficulty: `And the priest hath caused her to swear, and hath said unto the woman, If no man hath lain with thee, and if thou hast not turned aside <FI>to<Fi> uncleanness under thy husband, be free from these bitter waters which cause the curse;

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.

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


simplify: And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, My life is a weariness to me because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob takes a wife from among the daughters of Heth, such as these, the women of this land, of what use will my life be to me?


rate difficulty: He removeth not the pillar of the cloud by day, and the pillar of the fire by night, <FI>from<Fi> before the people.

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


simplify: Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.

The next morning, in returning to the city, Jesus became hungry;


rate difficulty: He takes the produce of the mountains, where all the beasts of the field are at play.

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


simplify: That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

So that your lives might be pleasing to God, who has given you a part in his kingdom and his glory.


simplify: And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof:

And the woman had in the house a young cow, made fat for food; and she put it to death straight away; and she took meal and got it mixed and made unleavened bread;


simplify: And to stand every morning to thank and praise the Lord, and likewise at even;

They had to take their places every morning to give praise and make melody to the Lord, and in the same way at evening;


rate difficulty: He that hath the Son hath the life; he that hath not the Son of God hath not the life.

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


simplify: For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

For the wealth which God has taken from him is ours and our children's; so now, whatever God has said to you, do.


simplify: And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

This incident came to the knowledge of all the Jews and Greeks living at Ephesus; they were all awe-struck, and the name of the Lord Jesus was held in the highest honor.


simplify: Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

Then give your children the story, and say, Israel came over this river Jordan on dry land.


rate difficulty: And Pilate having seen that it profiteth nothing, but rather a tumult is made, having taken water, he did wash the hands before the multitude, saying, `I am innocent from the blood of this righteous one; ye--ye shall see;'


simplify: can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither can salt water yield sweet.

Is a fig-tree able to give us olives, my brothers, or do we get figs from a vine, or sweet water from the salt sea?


rate difficulty: for the command of the king <FI>is<Fi> upon them, and support <FI>is<Fi> for the singers, a matter of a day in its day.

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


simplify: Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Cesar.

and, speaking to Festus, Agrippa added: “The man might have been discharged, if he had not appealed to the Emperor.”


simplify: But none saith, Where is God my Maker, Who giveth songs in the night,

But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;


simplify: Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me.


rate difficulty: All thanks to God for his inestimable gift!


rate difficulty: Then Jehovah said unto me, Out of the north evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.


simplify: For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.

For in the book of Psalms it says, Let his house be waste, and let no man be living in it: and, Let his position be taken by another.


rate difficulty: So he came to the king. And the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go against Ramoth–gilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered him, Go, and prosper: for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king.

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


simplify: And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths a thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

And all the men of war, seven thousand of them, and a thousand expert workmen and metal-workers, all of them strong and able to take up arms, the king of Babylon took away as prisoners into Babylon.


rate difficulty: And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guardand ofthe people, she came to the people into the house of Jehovah:

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


rate difficulty: then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling-place, and forgive, and do, and render unto every man according to all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 10 | difficulty: hard


simplify: but of one thing there is need, and Mary the good part did choose, that shall not be taken away from her.'

but only a few are necessary, or rather one. Mary has chosen the good part, and it will not be taken away from her.”


rate difficulty: Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.


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

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


rate difficulty: Thou dost bring them in, And dost plant them In a mountain of Thine inheritance, A fixed place for Thy dwelling Thou hast made, O Jehovah; A sanctuary, O Lord, Thy hands have established;

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


rate difficulty: If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in <FI>him<Fi> the gate of my court,


rate difficulty: A righteous [man] hateth lying; but the wicked maketh himself odious and cometh to shame.

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


rate difficulty: And, if anyone says anything to you, you are to say this — ‘The Master wants them’; and he will send them at once.”


simplify: And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement.

And the stone floor was by the side of the doorways, and was as wide as the doorways were long, even the lower floor.


rate difficulty: And Sarah died in Kirjath–arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.


rate difficulty: I now do rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry to reformation, for ye were made sorry toward God, that in nothing ye might receive damage from us;

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


rate difficulty: their numbered ones, for the tribe of Manasseh, <FI>are<Fi> two and thirty thousand and two hundred.


simplify: And Leah said, Fortunate! and she called his name Gad.

And Leah said, It has gone well for me: and she gave him the name Gad.


simplify: And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren’s heart faint as well as his heart.

And let the overseers go on to say to the people, If there is any man whose heart is feeble with fear, let him go back to his house before he makes the hearts of his countrymen feeble.


simplify: And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head,

And they put a purple robe on him, and twisting a crown of thorns, they put it on him;


simplify: the king of Dor in the height of Dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;

The king of Dor on the hill of Dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;


rate difficulty: There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.


rate difficulty: if, then, any one may cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified and profitable to the master--to every good work having been prepared,

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


rate difficulty: Reuben, first-born of Israel--sons of Reuben: <FI>of<Fi> Hanoch <FI>is<Fi> the family of the Hanochite; of Pallu the family of the Palluite;

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


simplify: The priests said not, Where is Jehovah? and they that handle the law knew me not: the rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those who were expert in the law had no knowledge of me: and the rulers did evil against me, and the prophets became prophets of the Baal, going after things without value.


simplify: And when the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

And when the vessel, which he was forming out of earth, got damaged in the hand of the potter, he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make it.


rate difficulty: And in the evening, they took to him a number of people who had evil spirits; and he sent the spirits out of them with a word, and made well all who were ill;

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


rate difficulty: And ye shall know that I, Jehovah, [am] yourGod, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain; and Jerusalem shall be holy, and no strangers shall pass through her any more.

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


simplify: Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.

Yes, I will take you, breathing on you the fire of my wrath, and you will become soft in it.


simplify: and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion ofthy substance that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.

And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me that part of your property which will be mine. And he made division of his goods between them.


rate difficulty: And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof.

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


rate difficulty: lo, the hand of Jehovah is on thy cattle which <FI>are<Fi> in the field, on horses, on asses, on camels, on herd, and on flock--a pestilence very grievous.

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


simplify: The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the Lord of hosts.

The strong tower has gone from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus: the rest of Aram will come to destruction, and be made like the glory of the children of Israel, says the Lord of armies.


rate difficulty: I know what I will do, so that, as soon as I am turned out of my stewardship, people may welcome me into their homes.’

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


simplify: And he spake this simile: `A certain one had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit in it, and he did not find;

And Jesus told them this parable — “A man, who had a fig tree growing in his vineyard, came to look for fruit on it, but could not find any.


simplify: And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour’s wife,

Who has taken flesh with the blood as food, and has had connection with his neighbour's wife,


rate difficulty: And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the stronghold to David.

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


rate difficulty: And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For, said she, God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel; for Cain slew him.

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


rate difficulty: Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,

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


simplify: Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of David.

“What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” “David’s,” they said.


rate difficulty: And said to her, Whose daughter are you? is there room in your father's house for us?


rate difficulty: the one lamb thou preparest in the morning, and the second lamb thou preparest between the evenings;

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


simplify: That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:

Have nothing to do with these nations who still are living among you; let not their gods be named by you or used in your oaths; do not be their servants or give them worship:


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

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


simplify: And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?

And they gave a loud cry, saying, What have we to do with you, you Son of God? Have you come here to give us punishment before the time?


simplify: and he said to Jesus, `Remember me, lord, when thou mayest come in thy reign;'

Jesus,” he went on, “do not forget me when you have come to your kingdom.”


rate difficulty: Jesus entered Jericho and made his way through the town.


simplify: And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.

Then Joshua got up early in the morning, and, moving on from Shittim, he and all the children of Israel came to Jordan and were there for the night before going over.


simplify: Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, And they shall call his name Immanuel;  which is, being interpreted, God with us.

See, the virgin will be with child, and will give birth to a son, and they will give him the name Immanuel, that is, God with us.


simplify: Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.

There is bitter punishment for him who is turned from the way; and death will be the fate of the hater of teaching.


simplify: And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the Lord, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the Lord hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.

And she said to him, My father, you have made an oath to the Lord; do then to me whatever you have said; for the Lord has sent a full reward on your haters, on the children of Ammon.


simplify: But Israel shall be saved by Jehovah with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be put to shame nor confounded world without end.

But the Lord will make Israel free with an eternal salvation: you will not be put to shame or made low for ever and ever.


rate difficulty: Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half wasted when he comes out from the body of his mother.


simplify: Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

In the same way, there are at this present time some who are marked out by the selection of grace.


rate difficulty: Yea, ye took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of [your]god Remphan, the forms which ye made to do homage to them; and I will transport you beyond Babylon.

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


simplify: Therefore hear ye the counsel of Jehovah, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them away, even the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.

So give ear to the decision of the Lord which he has made against Babylon, and to his purposes designed against the land of the Chaldaeans; Truly, they will be pulled away by the smallest of the flock; truly, he will make waste their fields with them.


rate difficulty: And Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.

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


rate difficulty: And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,


simplify: If thou therefore wilt worship before me, it shall all be thine.

If then you will give worship to me, it will all be yours.


simplify: And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle.

And Joab said to the man who had given him the news, If you saw this, why did you not put your sword through him, and I would have given you ten bits of silver and a band for your robe?


rate difficulty: And the children went in and possessed the land; and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, both their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.

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


rate difficulty: And she goeth and sitteth by herself over-against, afar off, about a bow-shot, for she said, `Let me not look on the death of the lad;' and she sitteth over-against, and lifteth up her voice, and weepeth.

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


rate difficulty: And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.

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


simplify: Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money;


simplify: And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.

“I had to pay a heavy price for my position as citizen,” said the officer. “I am one by birth,” rejoined Paul.


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

All this have I seen, and have given my heart to all the work which is done under the sun: there is a time when man has power over man for his destruction.


rate difficulty: Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.

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


rate difficulty: No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.

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


simplify: And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him unto a city of Moab, which is in the border of Arnon, which is in the utmost coast.

Now Balak, hearing that Balaam had come, went to the chief town of Moab, on the edge of the Arnon, in the farthest part of the land, for the purpose of meeting him.


simplify: And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

And I will send an angel before you, driving out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite:


simplify: And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men; and they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them at the descent: and the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.

The men of Ai put to death about thirty-six of them, driving them from before the town as far as the stoneworks, and overcoming them on the way down: and the hearts of the people became like water.


simplify: Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

For this cause the earth is given up to the curse, and those in it are judged as sinners: for this cause those living on the earth are burned up, and the rest are small in number.


rate difficulty: `Every one, therefore, who shall confess in me before men, I also will confess in him before my Father who is in the heavens;

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


rate difficulty: And I will sow them among the peoples, and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children and return.

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


simplify: And David perceived that Jehovah had established him king over Israel; for his kingdom was exalted on high, for his people Israel’s sake.

And David saw that the Lord had made his position safe as king over Israel, lifting up his kingdom on high because of his people Israel.


rate difficulty: If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand?


simplify: then shalt thou delight thyself in Jehovah; and I will make thee to ride upon the high places of the earth; and I will feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.

Then the Lord will be your delight; and I will put you on the high places of the earth; and I will give you the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the Lord has said it.


simplify: And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and sin not against Jehovah in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew them there.

And Saul said, Go about among the people and say to them, Let every man come here to me with his ox and his sheep, and put them to death here, and take his meal: do no sin against the Lord by taking the blood with the flesh. So all the people took their oxen with them that night and put them to death there.


rate difficulty: But come back, now, all of you, come; and I will not see a wise man among you.


simplify: This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

This, then, as one in union with the Lord, I implore: Do not continue to live such purposeless lives as the Gentiles live,


simplify: Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.

Send them away, so that they may go into the country and small towns round about, and get some food for themselves.


simplify: Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler 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.


simplify: That all the people of the earth may know that the Lord is God, and that there is none else.

So that all the peoples of the earth may see that the Lord is God, and there is no other.


simplify: And it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of the mount, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head:

Now when David had come to the top of the slope, where they gave worship to God, Hushai the Archite came to him in great grief with dust on his head:


rate difficulty: These three were the sons of Noah and from them all the earth was peopled.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

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


rate difficulty: There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, which have ruled over all countries beyond the river; and toll, tribute, and custom, was paid unto them.

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


simplify: And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Jehovah, who saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will do thee good:

Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, the God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, Go back to your country and your family and I will be good to you:


simplify: according as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this very day.

As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day.


simplify: and we went on board the ship, but they returned home again.

We said our last words to one another, and got into the ship, and they went back to their houses.


simplify: (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

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


simplify: I say, then, Did they stumble that they might fall? let it not be! but by their fall the salvation <FI>is<Fi> to the nations, to arouse them to jealousy;

I ask then — ‘Was their stumbling to result in their fall?’ Heaven forbid! On the contrary, through their falling away salvation has reached the Gentiles, to stir the rivalry of Israel.


simplify: She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.

Her mouth is open to give out wisdom, and the law of mercy is on her tongue.


rate difficulty: because, according to <FI>their<Fi> power, I testify, and above <FI>their<Fi> power, they were willing of themselves,

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rate difficulty: Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;

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


simplify: And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;

Afterwards Jesus came down the hill with them and took his stand on a level place. With him were a large crowd of his disciples, and great numbers of people from the whole of Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast district of Tyre and Sidon,


rate difficulty: And of this measure shalt thou measure a length of five and twenty thousand, and a breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary, which is most holy.

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


simplify: and they say to him, `By what authority dost thou these things? and who gave thee this authority that these things thou mayest do?'

“What authority have you to do these things?” they said. “Who gave you the authority to do them?”


simplify: Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.

Now in the eighteenth year of his rule, when the land and the house had been made clean, he sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah, the ruler of the town, and Joah, the son of Joahaz, the recorder, to make good what was damaged in the house of the Lord his God.


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

So the Lord of armies has said, See, I will make them soft in the fire and put them to the test; this I will do because of their evil-doing.


rate difficulty: and he saith: --`Jehovah from Sinai hath come, And hath risen from Seir for them; He hath shone from mount Paran, And hath come <FI>with<Fi> myriads of holy ones; At His right hand <FI>are<Fi> springs for them.

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


rate difficulty: And these are the nations that Jehovah left, to prove Israel by them, all that had not known all the wars of Canaan;

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


simplify: and there came to him great multitudes, having with them lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and they did cast them at the feet of Jesus, and he healed them,

Great crowds of people came to him, bringing with them those who were lame, crippled, blind, or dumb, and many others. They put them down at his feet, and he cured them;


rate difficulty: I have knowledge of a man in Christ, fourteen years back (if he was in the body, or out of the body, I am not able to say, but God only), who was taken up to the third heaven.

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


rate difficulty: And they said unto the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,

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


simplify: And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;

And God said to him, I am God, the Ruler of all: be fertile, and have increase; a nation, truly a group of nations, will come from you, and kings will be your offspring;


simplify: And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and his voice was like that of a dragon.


rate difficulty: the baptism of John, whence was it? --from heaven, or from men?' And they were reasoning with themselves, saying, `If we should say, From heaven; he will say to us, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?

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


rate difficulty: For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the assembly for offerings a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah answereth Job out of the whirlwind, and saith: --

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


rate difficulty: and thou mourn in thine end, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed;

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


simplify: They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.


simplify: by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which I preached unto you, except ye believed in vain.

By which you have salvation; that is to say, the form in which it was given to you, if it is fixed in your minds, and if your faith in it is not without effect.


rate difficulty: And from the town he took the unsexed servant who was over the men of war, and seven of the king's near friends who were in the town, and the scribe of the captain of the army, who was responsible for getting the people of the land together in military order, and sixty men of the people of the land who were in the town.

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


simplify: There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going:

There are three things whose steps are good to see, even four whose goings are fair:


simplify: And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

And give worship to the Lord your God, who will send his blessing on your bread and on your water; and I will take all disease away from among you.


rate difficulty: Thrice in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord Jehovah, theGod of Israel.

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


simplify: and dost know the will, and dost approve the distinctions, being instructed out of the law,

and, having been carefully instructed from the law, have learned to appreciate the finer moral distinctions.


simplify: And the tempter came and said unto him, If thou art the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.

And the Evil One came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, give the word for these stones to become bread.


rate difficulty: He hath filled them with wisdom of heart to do every work, of engraver, and designer, and embroiderer (in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in linen), and weaver, who do any work, and of designers of designs.

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


rate difficulty: Ah! Jehovah, remember, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept much.

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


rate difficulty: and Absalom sendeth Ahithophel the Gilonite, a counsellor of David, out of his city, out of Gilo, in his sacrificing sacrifices; and the conspiracy is strong, and the people are going and increasing with Absalom.

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


rate difficulty: And Asa doth that which <FI>is<Fi> right in the eyes of Jehovah, like David his father,


simplify: And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.


simplify: But when he saw the wind, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, Lord, save me.

But when he saw the wind he was in fear and, starting to go down, he gave a cry, saying, Help, Lord.


rate difficulty: for this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor. And they spoke very angrily at her.

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


simplify: And she conceived, and bare a son: and said, God hath taken away my reproach:

And she was with child, and gave birth to a son: and she said, God has taken away my shame.


simplify: And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.

And he said, Are you truly my son Esau? And he said, I am.


rate difficulty: `My sabbaths ye do keep, and My sanctuary ye do reverence; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: Hearing it, my inner parts were moved, and my lips were shaking at the sound; my bones became feeble, and my steps were uncertain under me: I gave sounds of grief in the day of trouble, when his forces came up against the people in bands.


simplify: Then were they all of good cheer, and themselves also took food.

Then they all took heart and did the same.


simplify: For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?

For which is the simpler, to say, You have forgiveness for your sins; or to say, Get up and go?


simplify: So--because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I am about to vomit thee out of my mouth;

But now, because you are lukewarm, neither hot not cold, I am about to spit you out of my mouth.


rate difficulty: Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

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


rate difficulty: waiting for and hasting to the presence of the day of God, by which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements with burning heat shall melt;

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


simplify: And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea,

And all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, as far as the Great Sea of the west;


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, [As] Jehovah liveth — even as they taught my people to swear by Baal — they shall be built up in the midst of my people.

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


rate difficulty: And she answered and saith to him, `Yes, sir; for the little dogs also under the table do eat of the children's crumbs.'

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


simplify: (For the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.)

(For every man of the army had taken goods for himself in the war.)


simplify: A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.

A sword is on her waters, drying them up; for it is a land of images, and their minds are fixed on false gods.


simplify: Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.

Let your hearts be open to us: we have done no man wrong, no man has been damaged by us, we have made no profit out of any man,


rate difficulty: And when the days were fulfilled for their purifying according to the law of Moses, they brought him to Jerusalem to present [him] to the Lord

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


simplify: If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

But if any man among you is without wisdom, let him make his request to God, who gives freely to all without an unkind word, and it will be given to him.


rate difficulty: But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment upon him.

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


simplify: Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

So keep watch, having in mind that for three years without resting I was teaching every one of you, day and night, with weeping.


rate difficulty: He doth build a house for My Name, and I have established the throne of his kingdom unto the age.

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


simplify: Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.

Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test; the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.


simplify: And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.

And that we may be made free from foolish and evil men; for not all have faith.


simplify: The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.

The arrow is not able to put him to flight: stones are no more to him than dry stems.


simplify: And the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;

And the fourth, Adonijah, the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah, the son of Abital;


simplify: Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.

I will make them come to my holy mountain, and will give them joy in my house of prayer; I will take pleasure in the burned offerings which they make on my altar: for my house will be named a house of prayer for all peoples.


simplify: and happened to them hath that of the true similitude; `A dog did turn back upon his own vomit,' and, `A sow having bathed herself--to rolling in mire.'

In their case is seen the truth of the proverb — ‘A dog returns to what it has vomited’ and ‘A sow after washing to her wallowing-place in the mud.’


rate difficulty: and having sent, he beheaded John in the prison,


simplify: Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.

So though I sent you a letter, it was not only because of the man who did the wrong, or because of him to whom the wrong was done, but so that your true care for us might be made clear in the eyes of God.


simplify: And Shaharaim begat children in the country of Moab, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives.

And Shaharaim became the father of children in the country of the Moabites after driving out Hushim and Beerah his wives;


rate difficulty: And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth together out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan, and came as far as Haran, and dwelt there.

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


simplify: Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites,

The letter was sent by Rehum, the chief ruler, and Shimshai the scribe and their friends; the Dinaites and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites,


rate difficulty: But a prophet of the Lord was there, named Oded; and he went out in front of the army which was coming into Samaria and said to them, Truly, because the Lord, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he gave them up into your hands, and you have put them to death in an outburst of wrath stretching up to heaven.

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


simplify: And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.

So he got up and took food and drink, and in the strength of that food he went on for forty days and nights, to Horeb, the mountain of God.


simplify: and Jesus said to him, `Judas, with a kiss the Son of Man dost thou deliver up?'

on which Jesus said to him: “Judas, is it by a kiss that you betray the Son of Man?”


rate difficulty: If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:

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


rate difficulty: And king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the levy; but all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. And king Rehoboam hastened to mount his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.

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


rate difficulty: There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

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


simplify: let all your things be done in love.

Let everything you do be done in a loving spirit.


rate difficulty: And Jesus said to his disciples, Truly I say to you, It is hard for a man with much money to go into the kingdom of heaven.

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


rate difficulty: And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass at [the time of] the offering up of the oblation, that Elijah the prophet drew near, and said, Jehovah,God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known this day that thou artGod in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things by thy word.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger of the flock did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;

And whenever the stronger ones of the flock became with young, Jacob put the sticks in front of them in the drinking-places, so that they might become with young when they saw the sticks.


simplify: For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.

Now he is not the God of the dead but of the living: for all men are living to him.


simplify: The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

The chiefs of Zoan are completely foolish; the wisest guides of Pharaoh have become like beasts: how do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the offspring of early kings?


rate difficulty: Be wise, my son, and rejoice my heart. And I return my reproacher a word.

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


simplify: having beheld your pure behaviour in fear,

as they watch your submissive and blameless conduct.


rate difficulty: And I strive with the prefects, and say, `Wherefore hath the house of God been forsaken?' and I gather them, and set them on their station;

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


simplify: And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be dim after the washing thereof, then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:

And if the priest sees that the mark is less bright after the washing, then let him have it cut out of the clothing or the leather or from the threads of the material:


simplify: Watch therefore: for ye know not on what day your Lord cometh.

Be watching, then! for you have no knowledge on what day your Lord will come.


simplify: For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:


rate difficulty: And he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, `Every kingdom having been divided against itself is desolated; and house against house doth fall;

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


simplify: But these mine enemies, that would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.

And as for those who were against me, who would not have me for their ruler, let them come here, and be put to death before me.


rate difficulty: `Ye do not do perversity in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in liquid measure;


simplify: Thou wilt say, then, `The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;' right!

But branches, you will say, were broken off, so that I might be grafted in.


simplify: And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zechariah his son reigned in his stead.

And Jeroboam went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth with the kings of Israel; and Zechariah his son became king in his place.


simplify: Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

Awake! awake! put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy town: for from now there will never again come into you the unclean and those without circumcision.


rate difficulty: Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?

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


rate difficulty: And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a letter of divorce, and give it into her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die who took her as his wife;


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said to Joshua, Fear them not; for into thy hand have I given them: not a man of them shall stand before thee.


simplify: That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:

Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:


simplify: And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.

And Joseph said, Give me your cattle; I will give you grain in exchange for your cattle if your money is all gone.


rate difficulty: But if the size of the mark on his skin is increased after he has been seen by the priest, let him go to the priest again:

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


rate difficulty: Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,

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


simplify: But when they saw him walking upon the sea, they supposed it had been a spirit, and cried out:

But, when they saw him walking on the water, they thought it was a ghost, and cried out;


rate difficulty: He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing.

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


rate difficulty: Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan and Ishvi and Malchi-shua; and these are the names of his daughters: the older was named Merab and the younger Michal;

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


rate difficulty: Not [as] chiding do I write these things to you, but as my beloved children I admonish [you].


simplify: Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.

Let him be seated by himself, saying nothing, because he has put it on him.


simplify: And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

and they had what seemed to be iron breastplates, while the noise of their wings was like the noise of chariots drawn by many horses, galloping into battle.


rate difficulty: So Aaron put it away in front of the holy chest to be kept, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.


simplify: If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.

If any man gives his offering as a praise-offering, then let him give with the offering, unleavened cakes mixed with oil and thin unleavened cakes covered with oil and cakes of the best meal well mixed with oil.


simplify: and believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women:

And a great number of men and women had faith, and were joined to the Lord;


simplify: And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.

And said to him, Has it come to your knowledge that Baalis, the king of the children of Ammon, has sent Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, to take your life? But Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, put no faith in what they said.


rate difficulty: `Only, unto the land of the sons of Ammon thou hast not drawn near, any part of the brook Jabbok, and cities of the hill-country, and anything which Jehovah our God hath <FI>not<Fi> commanded.

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


rate difficulty: Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought Jehovah’s offering; and every man, with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it.

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


simplify: And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.

and never for a single day, either in the Temple Courts or in private houses, did they cease to teach, or to tell the good news of Jesus, the Christ.


simplify: Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, then he shall come unto the priest;

Or if the diseased flesh is turned again and changed to white then he is to come to the priest,


rate difficulty: But he said, Are ye also still without intelligence?

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord God;)

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


rate difficulty: and Bath-Sheba boweth and doth obeisance to the king, and the king saith, `What--to thee?'

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


simplify: And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.

Other seed fell in the middle of brambles, but the brambles grew up with it and choked it entirely.


simplify: Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.

So she said to Abraham, Send away that woman and her son: for the son of that woman is not to have a part in the heritage with my son Isaac.


rate difficulty: For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.

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


rate difficulty: They are the spirits of demons, and perform marvels; they go to kings all over the world, to collect them for the battle on the great day of Almighty God.

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


simplify: And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

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


simplify: but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then is finished the mystery of God, according to the good tidings which he declared to his servants the prophets.

But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when the sound of his horn is about to come, then will the secret of God be complete, of which he gave the good news to his servants the prophets.


simplify: Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.

Judah and the land of Israel were your traders; they gave grain of Minnith and sweet cakes and honey and oil and perfume for your goods.


simplify: who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the living and the dead.

But they will have to give an account of themselves to him who is ready to be the judge of the living and the dead.


simplify: For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God.

And the children are hard and stiff-hearted; I am sending you to them: and you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord.


rate difficulty: `And he hath stripped the burnt-offering, and hath cut it into its pieces;

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass at the seven years’ end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.


simplify: And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.

And it was the third hour when they put him on the cross.


rate difficulty: And they said, If we have found favor in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession; bring us not over the Jordan.

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


rate difficulty: And the woman had in the house a young cow, made fat for food; and she put it to death straight away; and she took meal and got it mixed and made unleavened bread;


simplify: And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall, I pray, into the hand of Jehovah; for very great are his mercies: and let me not fall into the hand of man.

And David said to Gad, This is a hard decision for me to make: let me come into the hands of the Lord, for great are his mercies: let me not come into the hands of men.


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

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


simplify: for whoever may do the will of God, he is my brother, and my sister, and mother.'

Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”


rate difficulty: and the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the saying of God,

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


rate difficulty: `And--a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day,

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


simplify: Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in, and make their home there; and the last state of that man proves to be worse than the first. So, too, will it be with this wicked generation.”


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


simplify: The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, saith Jehovah of hosts; and in this place will I give peace, saith Jehovah of hosts.

The second glory of this house will be greater than the first, says the Lord of armies: and in this place I will give peace, says the Lord of armies.


simplify: For thus saith the Lord of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;

For this is what the Lord of armies has said: In a short time I will make a shaking of the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land;


rate difficulty: And he humbled not himself before Jehovah, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.

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


rate difficulty: And the captain of the armed men took Seraiah, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and the three door-keepers;

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


rate difficulty: there is nothing from without the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

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


rate difficulty: And the Philistines yet again spread themselves in the valley.


simplify: from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even unto mount Sion (the same is Hermon),

From Aroer on the edge of the valley of the Arnon as far as Mount Sion, which is Hermon,


simplify: Whatever in the meat-market is sold eat ye, not inquiring, because of the conscience,

Eat anything that is sold in the market, without making inquiries to satisfy your scruples;


rate difficulty: And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation against the two brethren.

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


simplify: And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.

And Jacob put up a pillar in the place where he had been talking with God, and put a drink offering on it, and oil.


simplify: Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;

Then let a full search be made, and let questions be put with care; and if it is true and certain that such a disgusting thing has been done among you;


rate difficulty: So Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh went back, parting from the children of Israel at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their heritage which had been given to them by the Lord's order to Moses.

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simplify: which He poured upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour,

which he poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior;


simplify: I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;

I am thankful to God, whom I serve, as my ancestors did, with a clear conscience, when I remember you, as I never fail to do, in my prayers — night and day alike,


simplify: having faith and a good conscience, which certain having thrust away, concerning the faith did make shipwreck,

with faith, and with a clear conscience; and it is because they have thrust this aside, that, as regards the faith, some have wrecked their lives.


rate difficulty: And Judas and Silas, who themselves were prophets, gave teaching to the brothers and made them strong in the faith.

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