simplify: And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, upon the border of it, which was on the side of the ephod inward.

And they made two rings of gold and put them on the two lower ends of the bag, on the inner side nearest to the ephod.


simplify: And the Gibeonites said unto him, It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you.

And the Gibeonites said to him, It is not a question of silver and gold between us and Saul or his family; and it is not in our power to put to death any man in Israel. And he said, Say, then, what am I to do for you?


rate difficulty: And he wrote in the letter saying, Set Urijah in the front of the thickest fight, and withdraw from him, that he may be smitten and die.

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


simplify: But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will go up: for the Lord hath delivered them into our hand: and this shall be a sign unto us.

But if they say, Come up to us; then we will go up, for the Lord has given them into our hands: and this will be the sign to us.


simplify: and he reasoning concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment that is about to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, `For the present be going, and having got time, I will call for thee;'

But, while Paul was speaking at length about righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became terrified, and interrupted him — “Go for the present, but, when I find an opportunity, I will send for you again.”


rate difficulty: [and] one buck of the goats, to make atonement for you.

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


rate difficulty: Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find your own pleasure, and exact all your labors.

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


rate difficulty: Only, know ye certainly, that if ye are putting me to death, surely innocent blood ye are putting on yourselves, and on this city, and on its inhabitants; for truly hath Jehovah sent me unto you to speak in your ears all these words.'

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


simplify: neither shall men break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

No one will make a feast for them in sorrow, to give them comfort for the dead, or put to their lips the cup of comfort on account of their father or their mother.


rate difficulty: Paul had gathered a quantity of dry sticks and laid them on the fire, when a poisonous snake, driven out by the heat, fastened on his hand.

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


simplify: These things placing before the brethren, thou shalt be a good ministrant of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of the faith, and of the good teaching, which thou didst follow after,

Put all this before the followers, and you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, sustained by the precepts of the faith and of that good teaching by which you have guided your life.


rate difficulty: And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities, twenty-six thousand men that drew sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

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


rate difficulty: And I took you up out of the land of Egypt, guiding you for forty years in the waste land, so that you might take for your heritage the land of the Amorite.

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


rate difficulty: But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah sent Jerubbaal and Bedan and Jephthah and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies round about, so that ye dwelt in safety.

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


rate difficulty: `Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, I--I made a covenant with your fathers in the day of My bringing them forth from the land of Egypt, from a house of servants, saying,

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


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

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


simplify: wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh--to the age--that my brother I may not cause to stumble.

Therefore, if what I eat makes a follower of the Lord fall, rather than make them fall, I will never eat meat again.


rate difficulty: Hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine eye, and then thou wilt see clearly to cast out the mote out of the eye of thy brother.

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


simplify: But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?

Now Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, Lord, will you put to death an upright nation?


rate difficulty: And Ahitub was the father of Zadok, and Zadok was the father of Ahimaaz,


simplify: My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction:

My son, do not make your heart hard against the Lord's teaching; do not be made angry by his training:


simplify: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Let us then keep the feast, not with old leaven, and not with the leaven of evil thoughts and acts, but with the unleavened bread of true thoughts and right feelings.


rate difficulty: Therefore now thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your own souls, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and suckling, out of the midst of Judah, to leave you none remaining;

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


simplify: Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?

Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all?


rate difficulty: 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.


simplify: So also <FI>is<Fi> the rising again of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption;

It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. Sown a mortal body, it rises immortal; sown disfigured, it rises beautiful;


rate difficulty: and he setteth the maid-servants and their children first, and Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last.

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


simplify: Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the Lord’s house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon:

In the space of two years I will send back into this place all the vessels of the Lord's house which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, took away from this place to Babylon:


simplify: And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

And in her was seen the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been put to death on the earth.


simplify: In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word from Jehovah, saying,

When Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, first became king, this word came from the Lord, saying,


rate difficulty: His request was for water, she gave him milk; she put butter before him on a fair plate.


simplify: Let not then your good be evil spoken of:

Let it not be possible for men to say evil about your good:


simplify: Then Jael Heber’s wife took a tent-pin, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died.

Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a tent-pin and a hammer and went up to him quietly, driving the pin into his head, and it went through his head into the earth, for he was in a deep sleep from weariness; and so he came to his end.


simplify: and all those dwelling at Lydda, and Saron saw him, and did turn to the Lord.

and all the inhabitants of Lydda and of the Plain of Sharon saw him, and came over to the Lord’s side.


simplify: If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.

If anyone sees one of our people committing some sin that is not a deadly sin, they will ask, and so be the means of giving life to them — to any whose sin is not deadly. There is such a thing as deadly sin; about that I do not say that a person should pray.


rate difficulty: Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son’s days will I bring the evil upon his house.

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


simplify: And there stood up certain, and bare false witness against him, saying,

Then some got up and gave false witness against him, saying,


simplify: When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;

Then I will make you go down with those who go down into the underworld, to the people of the past, causing your living-place to be in the deepest parts of the earth, in places long unpeopled, with those who go down into the deep, so that there will be no one living in you; and you will have no glory in the land of the living.


simplify: And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

Then Pharaoh got up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and a great cry went up from Egypt; for there was not a house where someone was not dead.


rate difficulty: And the Spirit said to me to go with them, nothing doubting. And there went with me these six brethren also, and we entered into the house of the man,

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


rate difficulty: and Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha,

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


simplify: Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good.

My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.


simplify: And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.

And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this is the older; put your right hand on his head.


rate difficulty: And Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave: the same is the Pillar of Rachel’s grave unto this day.

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


simplify: And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.

And Saul sent to Jesse saying, Let David be with me, for he is pleasing to me.


simplify: Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;


rate difficulty: And Ezra took the book, opening it before the eyes of all the people (for he was higher than the people); and when it was open, all the people got to their feet:

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


simplify: for because of this Christ both died and rose again, and lived again, that both of dead and of living he may be Lord.

The purpose for which Christ died and came back to life was this — that he might be Lord over both the dead and the living.


rate difficulty: On that day the Lord magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.

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


simplify: Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.

But if it is common knowledge that the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and its owner has not kept it under control, he will have to give ox for ox; and the dead beast will be his.


simplify: Now after John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God,

Now after John had been put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the good news of God,


rate difficulty: Then he got into the boat, followed by his disciples.


simplify: `And having been wroth, his lord delivered him to the inquisitors, till he might pay all that was owing to him;

Then his master, in anger, handed him over to the jailers, until he should pay the whole of his debt.


simplify: There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty.

“There were two people who were in debt to a moneylender; one owed five hundred silver coins, and the other fifty.


simplify: `And thou, Capernaum, which unto the heaven wast exalted, unto hades thou shalt be brought down.

And you, Capernaum! Will you ‘exalt yourself to heaven’? ‘You will go down to the place of death.’


simplify: And the swine, because he parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, but cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you.

And the pig is unclean to you, because though the horn of its foot is parted, its food does not come back.


rate difficulty: In the fourth, a topaz, a beryl, and a jasper; they were fixed in twisted frames of gold.

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


rate difficulty: Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.

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


rate difficulty: And we cast lots, the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood-offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn upon the altar of Jehovah our God, as it is written in the law;

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


simplify: And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:

And he said, See now, I am old, and my death may take place at any time:


simplify: Hear me, O Jehovah, hear me, that this people may know that thou, Jehovah, art God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.

Give me an answer, O Lord, give me an answer, so that this people may see that you are God, and that you have made their hearts come back again.


simplify: And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon:

And the sons of Josiah were Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the taking away to Babylon.


rate difficulty: and whom he called — even us — Not only from among the Jews but from among the Gentiles also!


rate difficulty: Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter, for thy heart is not upright beforeGod.

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


simplify: But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

There were not enough priests for the work of cutting up all the burned offerings; so their brothers the Levites gave them help till the work was done and the priests had made themselves holy: for the Levites were more upright in heart to make themselves holy than the priests.


rate difficulty: therefore whatever ye have said in the darkness shall be heard in the light, and what ye have spoken in the ear in chambers shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

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


rate difficulty: Now Miriam and Aaron said evil against Moses, because of the Cushite woman to whom he was married, for he had taken a Cushite woman as his wife.

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


simplify: But if he give of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince; but as for his inheritance, it shall be for his sons.

And if he gives a part of his heritage to one of his servants, it will be his till the year of making free, and then it will go back to the ruler; for it is his sons' heritage, and is to be theirs.


rate difficulty: `Why have we fasted, and Thou hast not seen? We have afflicted our soul, and Thou knowest not.' Lo, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, And all your labours ye exact.

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


simplify: For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.

For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the children of Judah; I, even I, will give him wounds and go away; I will take him away, and there will be no helper.


simplify: Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.

Because of the downfall of all the people of Canaan: all those who were weighted down with silver have been cut off.


simplify: And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.

And he came and was living in a town named Nazareth: so that the word of the prophets might come true, He will be named a Nazarene.


rate difficulty: For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: You take your meat with the blood, your eyes are lifted up to your images, and you are takers of life: are you to have the land for your heritage?

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


simplify: I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.


simplify: and when there was a purpose both of the nations and of the Jews with their rulers to use <FI>them<Fi> despitefully, and to stone them,

and, when there was an attempt on the part of both Gentiles and Jews, with their leaders, to resort to violence and to stone them,


rate difficulty: Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.

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


simplify: The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were, Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea,

The sons of Shelah, the son of Judah: Er, the father of Lecah, and Laadah, the father of Mareshah, and the families of those who made delicate linen, of the family of Ashbea;


simplify: A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

There is a sound of war in the land and of great destruction.


rate difficulty: Therefore will I also turn thy skirts over thy face, and thy shame shall be seen.

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


rate difficulty: But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.


simplify: His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.

His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.


simplify: Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; And light shall shine upon thy ways.

Your purposes will come about, and light will be shining on your ways.


simplify: And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

And because you are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, saying, Abba, Father.


simplify: And he carved thereon cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted upon the graven work.

These were ornamented with designs of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers, plated over with gold.


rate difficulty: To the people of God who are living abroad, dispersed throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Roman Asia, and Bithynia,

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


simplify: Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the Lord in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?

The voice of the cry of the daughter of my people comes from a far land: Is the Lord not in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they made me angry with their images and their strange gods which are no gods?


simplify: And Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, even the prince among his brethren; for he was minded to make him king.

Rehoboam made Abijah, the son of Maacah, chief and ruler among his brothers, for it was his purpose to make him king.


rate difficulty: And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.

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


rate difficulty: The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

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


rate difficulty: Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri.


simplify: and at the same time also prepare for me a lodging, for I hope that through your prayers I shall be granted to you.

Please also get a lodging ready for me, for I hope that I will be given back to you all in answer to your prayers.


simplify: Render unto them a recompence, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.

You will give them their reward, O Lord, answering to the work of their hands.


rate difficulty: A false witness doth perish, And an attentive man for ever speaketh.

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


simplify: And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.

And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given me in this land. And he said, Let them come near me, and I will give them a blessing.


simplify: And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.

and to the people he said: “Is it allowable to do good at the Sabbath — or harm? To save a life, or destroy it?”


simplify: Of a talent of pure gold shall it be made, with all these vessels.

A talent of gold will be needed for it, with all these vessels.


rate difficulty: Then the king of Assyria went through all the land and came up to Samaria, shutting it in with his forces for three years.


rate difficulty: The burden of Egypt. Behold, Jehovah rideth upon a swift cloud, and cometh to Egypt; and the idols of Egypt are moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt melteth in the midst of it.

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


simplify: And he had a helmet of brass upon his head, and he was clad with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.

And he had a head-dress of brass on his head, and he was dressed in a coat of metal, the weight of which was five thousand shekels of brass.


rate difficulty: And a messenger hath come in unto Job and saith, `The oxen have been plowing, and the she-asses feeding by their sides,

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

And I am coming to get together all nations and tongues: and they will come and will see my glory.


rate difficulty: When you take an oath before God, put it quickly into effect, because he has no pleasure in the foolish; keep the oath you have taken.

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


rate difficulty: And he said to the others who were near, Take the pound away from him, and give it to the man who has ten.

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


simplify: Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.

Give ear, then, to the story of the man who put the seed in the earth.


simplify: If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of Jehovah, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; what Jehovah speaketh, that will I speak?

Even if Balak gave me his house full of silver and gold, it would not be possible for me to go outside the orders of the Lord, doing good or evil at the impulse of my mind; whatever the Lord says I will say?


simplify: I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

So I say, Has God put his people on one side? Let there be no such thought. For I am of Israel, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.


rate difficulty: Saying, What have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? have you come to put an end to us? I see well who you are, the Holy One of God.

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


simplify: and a certain scribe having come, said to him, `Teacher, I will follow thee wherever thou mayest go;'

A teacher of the law came up to him, and said: “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”


simplify: And Shaul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.

And at the death of Shaul, Baal-hanan, son of Achbor, became king.


simplify: liberty to them promising, themselves being servants of the corruption, for by whom any one hath been overcome, to this one also he hath been brought to servitude,

They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to corrupt habits; for a person is the slave of anything to which they give way.


simplify: Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

Who put Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, to death? did not a woman send a great stone down on him from the wall, putting him to death at Thebez? why did you go so near the wall? Then say to him, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is among the dead.


rate difficulty: He even longed to satisfy his hunger with the bean-pods on which the pigs were feeding; and no one gave him anything.

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


rate difficulty: Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king’s princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.

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


simplify: For thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, The jar of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that Jehovah sendeth rain upon the earth.

For this is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: The store of meal will not come to an end, and the bottle will never be without oil, till the day when the Lord sends rain on the earth.


rate difficulty: and they journey from Dibon-Gad, and encamp in Almon-Diblathaim.

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


simplify: If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?

If we have been planting the things of the Spirit for you, does it seem a great thing for you to give us a part in your things of this world?


rate difficulty: and the remnant of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day with fire is burnt;


simplify: The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over the business of the house of God.

And the overseer of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi, the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the music-makers, who was over the business of the house of God.


rate difficulty: See, I will send fear on you, says the Lord, the Lord of armies, from those who are round you on every side; you will be forced out, every man straight before him, and there will be no one to get together the wanderers.

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


simplify: I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.

I speak to you as man of discernment; form your own judgment about what I am saying.


simplify: When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,

When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,


simplify: Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.

Then the rulers said to the king, Let this man be put to death, because he is putting fear into the hearts of the men of war who are still in the town, and into the hearts of the people, by saying such things to them: this man is not working for the well-being of the people, but for their damage.


simplify: And he knew it, and said, It is my son’s coat: an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.

And he saw that it was, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast has put him to death; without doubt Joseph has come to a cruel end.


simplify: And a multitude was sitting about him; and they say unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.

And a great number were seated round him; and they said to him, See, your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you.


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

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


simplify: Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,

Ladan was his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,


rate difficulty: All her people are sighing--seeking bread, They have given their desirable things For food to refresh the body; See, O Jehovah, and behold attentively, For I have been lightly esteemed.

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


simplify: And he did wash the inwards and the legs, and burnt them upon the burnt offering on the altar.

And the inside parts and the legs, when they had been washed with water, were burned on the burned offering on the altar.


rate difficulty: Then the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

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


simplify: Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Shushan to destroy them, to show it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him, for her people.

And he gave him the copy of the order which had been given out in Shushan for their destruction, ordering him to let Esther see it, and to make it clear to her; and to say to her that she was to go in to the king, requesting his mercy, and making prayer for her people.


simplify: Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of Jehovah their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as Jehovah their God had sent him; and the people did fear before Jehovah.

Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all the rest of the people, gave ear to the voice of the Lord their God and to the words of Haggai the prophet, because the Lord their God had sent him, and the people were in fear before the Lord.


simplify: saying, `Having risen, take the child and his mother, and be going to the land of Israel, for they have died--those seeking the life of the child.'

“Get up, take the child and his mother, and go into the Land of Israel, for those who sought to take the child’s life are dead.”


simplify: And he called to him the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:

And he got the people together and said to them, Give ear, and let my words be clear to you:


simplify: If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.

If then there are questions to be judged in connection with the things of this life, why do you put them in the hands of those who have no position in the church?


rate difficulty: And the days are completed, and it hath come to pass on the eighth day, and henceforth, the priests prepare on the altar your burnt-offerings and your peace-offerings, and I have accepted you--an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'

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


simplify: Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:

Having then such a hope, we keep nothing back,


simplify: And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.

It is to be your food, for you and your families in every place: it is your reward for your work in the Tent of meeting.


rate difficulty: And the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast them into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

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


simplify: Behold, he seizeth the prey, who can hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?

If he puts out his hand to take, by whom may it be turned back? who may say to him, What are you doing?


rate difficulty: Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me!

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


simplify: And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.

And Aaron said, Let not my lord be angry; you have seen how the purposes of this people are evil.


rate difficulty: And the border of the Canaanite is from Sidon, <FI>in<Fi> thy coming towards Gerar, unto Gaza; <FI>in<Fi> thy coming towards Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, unto Lasha.

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


simplify: And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.

And the children of Israel took away as prisoners from their brothers, two hundred thousand, women and sons and daughters, and a great store of their goods, and took them to Samaria.


rate difficulty: And Nineveh <FI>is<Fi> as a pool of waters, From of old it <FI>is<Fi> --and they are fleeing! `Stand ye, stand;' and none is turning!

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


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

And the word of the Lord came to Moses and Aaron, with orders for the children of Israel and for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to take the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.


simplify: Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it.


rate difficulty: And Jeremiah put in a book all the evil which was to come on Babylon.

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


simplify: Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

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?


simplify: For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.


simplify: Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?

“Though you have eyes, do you not see? And though you have ears, do you not hear?’ Do not you remember,


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

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


simplify: And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, the Lord with a strong east wind made the sea go back all night, and the waters were parted in two and the sea became dry land.


rate difficulty: And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

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


simplify: And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness:

And all the children of Israel were crying out against Moses and Aaron in the waste land:


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

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


simplify: And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword?

And Laban said to Jacob, Why did you go away secretly, taking my daughters away like prisoners of war?


simplify: And of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, Jeremoth.

And of the sons of Bani, Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub and Sheal, Jeremoth.


rate difficulty: And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel.

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


simplify: For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

And therefore we, from the very day that we heard this, have never ceased praying for you, or asking that you may possess that deeper knowledge of the will of God, which comes through all true spiritual wisdom and insight.


rate difficulty: For, lo, the winter is past; The rain is over and gone;

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


rate difficulty: He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.

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


simplify: Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honor; but, lo, Jehovah hath kept thee back from honor.

Go back quickly to the place you came from: it was my purpose to give you a place of honour, but now the Lord has kept you back from honour.


rate difficulty: Jesus said unto him, If thou wouldest be perfect, go, sell that which thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

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


rate difficulty: and speak thou unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am taking the sons of Israel, From among the nations whither they have gone, And have gathered them from round about, And I have brought them in unto their land.

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


simplify: Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his love, ever taking thought for you in his prayers, that you may be complete and fully certain of all the purpose of God.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he stood by the river.

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


simplify: And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name.

“You have no relation of that name!” they exclaimed;


simplify: And the man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

And the man Micah had a house of gods; and he made an ephod and family gods and put one of his sons in the position of priest.


simplify: Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.

However great you make the bride-price and payment, I will give it; only let me have the girl for my wife.


simplify: There is no peace, saith Jehovah, to the wicked.

There is no peace, says the Lord, for the evil-doers.


rate difficulty: And they shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.

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


simplify: and having embraced one another, we embarked in the ship, and they returned to their own friends.

and then said goodbye to one another; after which we went on board, and they returned home.


simplify: Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.

And Boaz went up to the public place of the town, and took his seat there: and the near relation of whom he had been talking came by; and Boaz, crying out to him by name, said, Come and be seated here. And he came and was seated.


rate difficulty: And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of thyGod: I am Jehovah.


simplify: But God clave the hollow place that is in Lehi, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore the name thereof was called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi, unto this day.

Then God made a crack in the hollow rock in Lehi and water came out of it; and after drinking, his spirit came back to him and he was strong again; so that place was named En-hakkore; it is in Lehi to this day.


simplify: Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge that is surety for foreigners.

Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.


rate difficulty: Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;


rate difficulty: And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

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


rate difficulty: Not equal it do gold and crystal, Nor <FI>is<Fi> its exchange a vessel of fine gold.

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


rate difficulty: having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that [as to that] in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may through [your] good works, [themselves] witnessing [them], glorifyGod in [the] day of visitation.

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


rate difficulty: And having looked round in a circle to those sitting about him, he saith, `Lo, my mother and my brethren!

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


rate difficulty: And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

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


rate difficulty: And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had panels; and there were panels between the ledges;


rate difficulty: And Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians that were beyond the River: and they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain of the host of Hadarezer at their head.


simplify: And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Cesar.

One of them, named Agabus, came forward and, under the influence of the Spirit, foretold a great famine that was to spread over all the world — a famine which occurred in the reign of Claudius.


simplify: and whenever the fruit may yield itself, immediately he doth send forth the sickle, because the harvest hath come.'

but, as soon as the crop is ready, immediately he ‘puts in the sickle because harvest has come’.”


simplify: And it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it,

Now on the second day after he had put Gedaliah to death, when no one had knowledge of it,


rate difficulty: And Job answereth Jehovah, and saith: --

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


simplify: So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.

And so may you, as soon as you see these things happening, know that he is at your doors.


simplify: And they said, Thy servant our father is well, he is yet alive. And they bowed the head, and made obeisance.

And they said, Your servant, our father, is well, he is still living. And they went down on their faces before him.


simplify: Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.


simplify: You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

You only of all the families of the earth have I taken care of: for this reason I will send punishment on you for all your sins.


simplify: And he could not answer Abner another word, because he feared him.

And so great was Ish-bosheth's fear of Abner that he was not able to say a word in answer.


rate difficulty: And when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it,

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


rate difficulty: And Pilate gave sentence that what they asked for should be done.


simplify: The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;

The Jews made a rule and gave an undertaking, causing their seed and all those who were joined to them to do the same, so that it might be in force for ever, that they would keep those two days, as ordered in the letter, at the fixed time every year;


rate difficulty: But the field, when it becomes free at the year of Jubilee, will be holy to the Lord, as a field given under oath: it will be the property of the priest.


simplify: what prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:

Whatever prayer or request for your grace is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, whatever his trouble may be, whose hands are stretched out to this house:


rate difficulty: Then ceased the work of the house ofGod which is at Jerusalem; and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

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


rate difficulty: to open the blind eyes, to bring forth the prisoner from the prison, them that sit in darkness out of the house of restraint.


rate difficulty: For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.


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

but, for those who are thought worthy to attain to that other world and the resurrection from the dead, there is no marrying or being married,


rate difficulty: And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the Lord, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.

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


rate difficulty: wherein ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the screen, and all the service thereof.

In their care are the ark, and the table, and the lights, and the altars, and all the vessels used in the holy place, and the veil, and all they are used for.


simplify: And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.

And Saul, having news of this, sent other men, who in the same way became like prophets. And a third time Saul sent men, and they like the others became like prophets.


rate difficulty: Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions, because they have increased.

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


simplify: Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:

To sharp words he gave no sharp answer; when he was undergoing pain, no angry word came from his lips; but he put himself into the hands of the judge of righteousness:


simplify: Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.

Father, if it is your pleasure, take this cup from me: but still, let your pleasure, not mine, be done.


rate difficulty: and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.

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


simplify: And said unto them, Ye men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what ye intend to do as touching these men.

And he said to them, Men of Israel, take care what you do about these men.


rate difficulty: Jeremiah the tenth, Machbannai the eleventh.

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


simplify: Then the spirit came upon Amasai, who was chief of the captains, and he said, Thine are we, David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse: peace, peace be unto thee, and peace be to thine helpers; for thy God helpeth thee. Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.

Then the spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the captains, and he said, We are yours, David, we are on your side, O son of Jesse: may peace be with you and peace be with your helpers; for God is your helper. Then David took them into his army and made them captains of the band.


simplify: She seeketh wool and flax, And worketh willingly with her hands.

She gets wool and linen, working at the business of her hands.


simplify: Go ye, inquire of Jehovah for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found; for great is the wrath of Jehovah that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.

Go and get directions from the Lord for me and for the people and for all Judah, about the words of this book which has come to light; for great is the wrath of the Lord which is burning against us, because our fathers have not given ear to the words of this book, to do all the things which are recorded in it.


simplify: And straightway he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, Rabbi; and kissed him.

And straight away he came to Jesus and said, Master! and gave him a kiss.


simplify: And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.

You are to put on Aaron the holy robes; and you are to put oil on him, and make him holy, so that he may be my priest.


simplify: and every one who left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my name's sake, an hundredfold shall receive, and life age-during shall inherit;

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or land, for my sake, will receive many times as much, and will ‘gain eternal life.’


simplify: The truth of Christ is in me, because this boasting shall not be stopped in regard to me in the regions of Achaia;

As surely as I know anything of the truth of Christ, this boast, as far as I am concerned, will not be stopped in any part of Greece.


rate difficulty: May the blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ rest on your souls.

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


rate difficulty: but, according as it hath been written, `What eye did not see, and ear did not hear, and upon the heart of man came not up, what God did prepare for those loving Him--'

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


rate difficulty: And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.

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


simplify: And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.

and said “What are you willing to give me, if I betray Jesus to you?” The Priests ‘weighed him out thirty pieces of silver’ as payment.


rate difficulty: So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: and they killed the rams, and sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and sprinkled the blood upon the altar.


rate difficulty: And the limit goes down to the stream Kanah, to the south of the stream: these towns were Ephraim's among the towns of Manasseh; Manasseh's limit was on the north side of the stream, ending at the sea:


rate difficulty: And David did so, as Jehovah had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou comest to Gezer.

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


simplify: And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully requite us all the evil which we did unto him.

Now after the death of their father, Joseph's brothers said to themselves, It may be that Joseph's heart will be turned against us, and he will give us punishment for all the evil which we did to him.


rate difficulty: For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices:

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


rate difficulty: If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;

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


simplify: Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.

Thick clouds are covering him, so that he is unable to see; and he is walking on the arch of heaven.


rate difficulty: That in those days, when King Ahasuerus was ruling in Shushan, his strong town,

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


rate difficulty: For it is as when a man, about to take a journey, got his servants together, and gave them his property.

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


simplify: neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

He may not go near any dead body or make himself unclean for his father or his mother;


rate difficulty: was returning and sitting in his chariot: and he was reading the prophet Esaias.


simplify: For if the dead are not raised, neither hath Christ been raised:

For if it is not possible for the dead to come to life again, then Christ has not come to life again:


simplify: And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.

And Samuel said to Saul, I will not go back with you: for you have put away from you the word of the Lord, and the Lord has put you from your place as king over Israel.


rate difficulty: And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me I came into Damascus.

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


rate difficulty: The children of Pahath-Moab, of the children of Jeshua [and] Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.

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


rate difficulty: And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

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


simplify: And they come to Jericho: and as he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timæus, Bartimæus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the way side.

And they came to Jericho: and when he was going out of Jericho, with his disciples and a great number of people, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind man, was seated by the wayside, with his hand out for money.


simplify: And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O Lord, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the Lord thy God, and worship before the Lord thy God:

So now, I have come here with the first of the fruits of the earth which you, O Lord, have given me. Then you will put it down before the Lord your God and give him worship:


rate difficulty: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Still they say this word in the land of Judah, And in its cities, In My turning back <FI>to<Fi> their captivity, Jehovah doth bless thee, habitation of righteousness, Mountain of holiness.

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


rate difficulty: The righteousness of the upright delivereth them; but the treacherous are taken in their own craving.

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simplify: But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

But the sense of my letter was that if a brother had the name of being one who went after the desires of the flesh, or had the desire for other people's property, or was in the way of using violent language, or being the worse for drink, or took by force what was not his, you might not keep company with such a one, or take food with him.


rate difficulty: They were a great people, tall as the Anakim, and equal to them in number; but the Lord sent destruction on them and the children of Ammon took their place, living in their land;

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


rate difficulty: And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

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rate difficulty: Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath Jehovah, the God of heaven, given me; and he hath charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whosoever there is among you of all his people, Jehovah his God be with him, and let him go up.

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


rate difficulty: Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

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


simplify: Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tent of meeting.

Zechariah, the son of Meshelemiah, was keeper of the door of the Tent of meeting.


rate difficulty: who risked their own lives to save mine. It is not I alone who thank them, but all the churches among the Gentiles thank them also.

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simplify: For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.

For every man's life and every man's death has a relation to others as well as to himself.


simplify: And he lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin his brother, his mother’s son, and said, Is this your youngest brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.

Then, lifting up his eyes, he saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother's son, and he said, Is this your youngest brother of whom you gave me word? And he said, God be good to you, my son.


simplify: And he questioned his father, `How long time is it since this came to him?' and he said, `From childhood,

“How long has he been like this?”Jesus asked the boy’s father.


simplify: And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

and to understand — though it surpasses all understanding — the love of the Christ; and so be filled to the full with God himself.


simplify: Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. And he blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.

Then the woman in her wisdom had talk with all the town. And they had Sheba's head cut off and sent out to Joab. And he had the horn sounded, and sent them all away from the town, every man to his tent. And Joab went back to Jerusalem to the king.


rate difficulty: The disciples say to him, If this is the position of a man in relation to his wife, it is better not to be married.

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


simplify: And she had a garment of divers colours upon her: for with such robes were the king’s daughters that were virgins apparelled. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.

Now she had on a long robe, such as in past times the king's virgin daughters were dressed in. Then the servant put her out, locking the door after her.


rate difficulty: Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all he did, are recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel.


rate difficulty: `O the happiness of thy men, and the happiness of thy servants--these--who are standing before thee continually, and hearing thy wisdom.

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


simplify: These were heads of the fathers, by their generations, chief men. These dwelt in Jerusalem.

These were heads of families in their generations; chief men: these were living in Jerusalem.


simplify: Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? Or wilt thou leave to him thy labor?

Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care?


rate difficulty: Behold the day, behold, it is come: the doom is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride is full blown.

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


rate difficulty: And it will be that if you truly give ear to the orders which I put before you this day, loving the Lord your God and worshipping him with all your heart and all your soul,

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


simplify: And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Inquire first, I pray thee, for the word of Jehovah.

Then Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Let us now get directions from the Lord.


simplify: And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord God; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant’s house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord God?

And this was only a small thing to you, O Lord God; but your words have even been about the far-off future of your servant's family, O Lord God!


simplify: And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?

And those living by the sea will say in that day, See the fate of our hope to whom we went for help and salvation from the king of Assyria: what hope have we then of salvation?


simplify: If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son be hers that was hated;

If a man has two wives, one greatly loved and the other hated, and the two of them have had children by him; and if the first son is the child of the hated wife:


simplify: Salute Prisca and Aquilas, and Onesiphorus' household;

Give my greeting to Prisca and Aquila, and to the household of Onesiphorus.


rate difficulty: Then Leah said, God has made payment to me for giving my servant-girl to my husband: so she gave her son the name Issachar.

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


simplify: and he drave them from the tribunal;

Saying this, he drove them back from the Bench.


simplify: And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them.

And he took them in his arms, and gave them a blessing, putting his hands on them.


simplify: And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.

Now when the king of Ai saw it, he got up quickly and went out to war against Israel, he and all his people, to the slope going down to the valley; but he had no idea that a secret force was waiting at the back of the town.


simplify: And Jesus said to him, `Why me dost thou call good? no one <FI>is<Fi> good, except One--God;

“Why do you call me good?”answered Jesus. “No one is good but God.


rate difficulty: And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons that were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.


rate difficulty: And Joshua said, Alas, Lord Jehovah, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? Oh that we had been content and had remained beyond the Jordan!

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


rate difficulty: After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:

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


rate difficulty: And he set the bread in order upon it before Jehovah; as Jehovah commanded Moses.


simplify: And one of those reclining with him, having heard these things, said to him, `Happy <FI>is<Fi> he who shall eat bread in the reign of God;'

One of the guests heard what he said and exclaimed: “Happy will be the person who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!”


simplify: All the sons of Perez that dwelt at Jerusalem were four hundred threescore and eight valiant men.

All the sons of Perez living in Jerusalem were four hundred and sixty-eight men of good position.


simplify: And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

Yes, my children, maintain your union with Christ, so that, whenever he appears, our confidence may not fail us, and we may not be ashamed to meet him at his coming.


simplify: and he shall show you a large upper room furnished, there make ready;'

The man will show you a large upstairs room, set out; there make preparations.”


simplify: And when all Israel saw that the king would not hearken unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? and we have none inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel: and now, David, see to thine own house. So all Israel went to their tents.

And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? every man to your tents, O Israel; now see to your house, David. So all Israel went to their tents.


simplify: and having sent, he beheaded John in the prison,

He sent and beheaded John in the prison;


rate difficulty: He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.


rate difficulty: Because that they serve them before their idols, and have been to the house of Israel for a stumbling-block of iniquity, therefore I have lifted up my hand against them--an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah--and they have borne their iniquity.

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rate difficulty: And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.

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


rate difficulty: For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels in heaven.

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simplify: All these joined together in the vale of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea).

All these came together in the valley of Siddim (which is the Salt Sea).


rate difficulty: But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof En–hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.

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


simplify: And there were given to the woman the two wings of the great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness unto her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

And there were given to the woman two wings of a great eagle, so that she might go in flight into the waste land, to her place, where she is given food for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the snake.


simplify: And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.

Shaking drops of the blood from his finger on it seven times to make it holy and clean from whatever is unclean among the children of Israel.


simplify: Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.

We will, however, have to be driven on some island.”


rate difficulty: For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And as he reasoned concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment about to come, Felix, being filled with fear, answered, Go for the present, and when I get an opportunity I will send for thee;

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


simplify: Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I shall be comforted: and they shall know that I, Jehovah, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath upon them.

So my wrath will be complete and my passion will come to rest on them; and they will be certain that I the Lord have given the word of decision, when my wrath against them is complete.


rate difficulty: And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.

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


simplify: And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

and I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters,” says the Lord, the Ruler of all.’


simplify: Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

The men who were to have examined Paul immediately drew back, and the officer, finding that Paul was a Roman citizen, was alarmed at having put him in chains.


rate difficulty: These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales shall ye eat;

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rate difficulty: And they had him shut up, because they had no directions about what was to be done with him.


rate difficulty: Moreover the earth is every way profitable: the king [himself] is dependent upon the field.


simplify: And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the Lord, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the Lord hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.

And Azariah, the chief priest, of the family of Zadok, said in answer, From the time when the people first came with their offerings into the house of the Lord, we have had food enough, and more than enough: for the blessing of the Lord is on his people; and there is this great store which has not been used.


simplify: and the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be inclosed in gold in their settings.

The fourth, a topaz, a beryl, and a jasper; they are to be fixed in twisted frames of gold.


rate difficulty: And there passed by Midianites, merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt.

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


rate difficulty: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron--as the vessels of the potter they shall be broken--as I also have received from my Father;

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rate difficulty: And on Beth-Gamul, and on Beth-Meon,


simplify: But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to receive his baptism, he said to them:   “You children of snakes! Who has prompted you to seek refuge from the coming judgment?


simplify: Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not use the fruit thereof.

You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.


rate difficulty: And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: In that day it is said to Jerusalem, `Fear not, O Zion, let not thy hands be feeble.

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


simplify: In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes in order to take me:

In Damascus, the ruler under Aretas the king kept watch over the town of the people of Damascus, in order to take me:


simplify: For all these things hath my hand made, and so all these things came to be, saith Jehovah: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my word.

For all these things my hand has made, and they are mine, says the Lord; but to this man only will I give attention, to him who is poor and broken in spirit, fearing my word.


simplify: That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:

So that they might make search for God, in order, if possible, to get knowledge of him and make discovery of him, though he is not far from every one of us:


rate difficulty: If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn.


simplify: And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.

To which Jesus replied: “A man was once going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him of everything, and beat him, and went away leaving him half dead.


simplify: And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.

And he had a head-dress of brass on his head, and he was dressed in a coat of metal, the weight of which was five thousand shekels of brass.


rate difficulty: The children of Gibeon, ninety and five.

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


rate difficulty: Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

He who comes to birth in your house and he who is made yours for a price, all are to undergo circumcision; so that my agreement may be marked in your flesh, an agreement for all time.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord God; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.

This is what the Lord has said: An evil, even one evil; see, it is coming.


rate difficulty: All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most holy.


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

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


simplify: For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord God, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.

For in my holy mountain, in the high mountain of Israel, says the Lord, there all the children of Israel, all of them, will be my servants in the land; there I will take pleasure in them, and there I will be worshipped with your offerings and the first-fruits of the things you give, and with all your holy things.


rate difficulty: Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.

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


rate difficulty: Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the Lord.

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


simplify: And the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;

And the children of Israel went on with all the sins which Jeroboam did; they did not keep themselves from them;


simplify: Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;

My brothers, if one of you has gone out of the way of the true faith and another has made him see his error,


simplify: But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.

But when I go to my fathers, you are to take me out of Egypt and put me to rest in their last resting-place. And he said, I will do so.


rate difficulty: And this people hath an apostate and rebellious heart, They have turned aside, and they go on.

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


simplify: that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor aught that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:

That I will not take so much as a thread or the cord of a shoe of yours; so that you may not say, I have given wealth to Abram:


rate difficulty: And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.

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


rate difficulty: And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood there to meet them, as they came out from Pharaoh.


simplify: And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.

And all that day and all night and the day after, the people were taking up the birds; the smallest amount which anyone got was ten homers: and they put them out all round the tents.


rate difficulty: The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright; but the mouth of the foolish poureth out folly.

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


simplify: And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.

Then he went out to the spring from which the water came, and put salt in it, and said, The Lord says, Now I have made this water sweet; no longer will it be death-giving or unfertile.


simplify: And the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah, saying,

And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying,


rate difficulty: But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.

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


rate difficulty: Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.

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


rate difficulty: as it hath been written in the scroll of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying, `A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye His paths;

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto the measure of his life?

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


simplify: And Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandment which I command you this day.

Then Moses and the responsible men of Israel gave the people these orders: Keep all the orders which I have given you this day;


rate difficulty: When she had news of the things which Jesus did, went among the people coming after him, and put her hand on his robe.

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


rate difficulty: Why hath my pain been perpetual? And my wound incurable? It hath refused to be healed, Thou art surely to me as a failing stream, Waters not stedfast.

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


simplify: and another messenger did come forth out of the sanctuary crying in a great voice to him who is sitting upon the cloud, `Send forth thy sickle and reap, because come to thee hath the hour of reaping, because ripe hath been the harvest of the earth;'

Then another angel came out from the Temple, crying in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud — ‘Take your sickle and reap, for the time to reap has come; the Harvest of Earth is ready.’


simplify: But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.

But this I say as my opinion, and not as an order of the Lord.


rate difficulty: I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.

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


simplify: And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?

And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, It may be that you are living among us; how then may we make an agreement with you?


rate difficulty: They turn the needy out of the way: the afflicted of the land all hide themselves.


simplify: And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.

And all the nations making war on Ariel, and all those who are fighting against her and shutting her in with their towers, will be like a dream, like a vision of the night.


simplify: Be not therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

So be not like them; because your Father has knowledge of your needs even before you make your requests to him.


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

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 say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

And so I say to you — Ask, and your prayer will be granted: search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.


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

And the Lord was no longer able to put up with the evil of your doings and the disgusting things you did; and because of this your land has become a waste and a cause of wonder and a curse, with no one living in it, as at this day.


rate difficulty: And Azel had six sons, whose names are these: Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan: these were the sons of Azel.

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


rate difficulty: Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.

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


rate difficulty: and said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him:

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


rate difficulty: Now will I arise, saith Jehovah; now will I be exalted, now will I lift up myself.

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


simplify: And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;

And Samuel said, What have you done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were going away from me, and you had not come at the time which had been fixed, and the Philistines had come together at Michmash;


rate difficulty: This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.

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


simplify: Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

Then all Israel came together to David at Hebron, and said, Truly, we are your bone and your flesh.


rate difficulty: How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?

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


rate difficulty: And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took the bridle of the mother city out of the hand of the Philistines.

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simplify: apart from the things without--the crowding upon me that is daily--the care of all the assemblies.

And, not to speak of other things, there is my daily burden of anxiety about all the churches.


rate difficulty: And David said to himself, Some day death will come to me by the hand of Saul: the only thing for me to do is to get away into the land of the Philistines; then Saul will give up hope of taking me in any part of the land of Israel: and so I may be able to get away from him.


rate difficulty: How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.

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


simplify: And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

“You are doubtless aware that it is forbidden for a Jew to be intimate with a foreigner, or even to enter his house; and yet God has shown me that I ought not to call anyone ‘defiled’ or ‘unclean.’


simplify: The word of Jehovah that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

The word of the Lord which came to Micah the Morashtite, in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah: his vision about Samaria and Jerusalem.


simplify: Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.


simplify: And Jesus himself, when he beganto teach, was about thirty years of age, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,

And Jesus at this time was about thirty years old, being the son (as it seemed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,


rate difficulty: And Serug lived after he had begotten Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

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rate difficulty: And also by the hand of Jehu son of Hanani the prophet a word of Jehovah hath been concerning Baasha, and concerning his house, and concerning all the evil that he did in the eyes of Jehovah to provoke Him to anger with the work of his hands, to be like the house of Jeroboam, and concerning that for which he smote him.

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you:

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


rate difficulty: And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

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


rate difficulty: At the judgment the Queen of the South will rise up with the people of this generation, and will condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon; and here is more than a Solomon!

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


rate difficulty: Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and in the storehouse two [and] two.


simplify: We grope for the wall like the blind; yea, we grope as they that have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty we are as dead men.

We go on our way, like blind men feeling for the wall, even like those who have no eyes: we are running against things in daylight as if it was evening; our place is in the dark like dead men.


rate difficulty: And behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they besought him that he would depart from their borders.

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


rate difficulty: Ithai son of Ribai of Gibeah, of the sons of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,

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


simplify: Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep sore for him that goeth away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

Let there be no weeping for the dead, and make no songs of grief for him: but make bitter weeping for him who has gone away, for he will never come back or see again the country of his birth.


rate difficulty: His eyes are ever on the upright, and he gives to the crushed their right;

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


rate difficulty: Hath a nation changed [its]gods? and they are nogods; — but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

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


rate difficulty: May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;