simplify: And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, who came forth from my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more may this Benjamite now do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for Jehovah hath bidden him.

And David said to Abishai and to all his servants, You see how my son, the offspring of my body, has made designs against my life: how much more then may this Benjamite do so? Let him be, and let him go on cursing; for the Lord has given him orders.


rate difficulty: and Kenan lived after he begat Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:

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


simplify: And certain of them that stood there said unto them, What do ye, loosing the colt?

And some of those who were there said to them, What are you doing, taking the ass?


rate difficulty: And wherever he entered into villages, or cities, or the country, they laid the sick in the market-places, and besought him that they might touch if it were only the hem of his garment; and as many as touched him were healed.

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


simplify: I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.

I have knowledge of your works, and your love and faith and help and strength in trouble, and that your last works are more than the first.


simplify: And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled.

And when Saul saw the Philistine army he was troubled, and his heart was moved with fear.


rate difficulty: After these things I will come back, and will put up the tent of David which has been broken down, building up again its broken parts and making it complete:

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


simplify: And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God.


simplify: And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:

And he said to them, in a story, The land of a certain man of great wealth was very fertile:


rate difficulty: and, when they saw him, they bowed to the ground before him; although some felt doubtful.

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


simplify: Now Elisha had spoken unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thy household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for Jehovah hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.

Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had given back to life, Go now, with all the people of your house, and get a living-place for yourselves wherever you are able; for by the word of the Lord, there will be great need of food in the land; and this will go on for seven years.


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

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


simplify: When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

If a man takes a wife, and after they are married she is unpleasing to him because of some bad quality in her, let him give her a statement in writing and send her away from his house.


rate difficulty: and for all burnt-offerings offered up to Jehovah on the sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the ordinance concerning them, continually, before Jehovah;

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

And whenever I say anything about building up a nation or a kingdom, and planting it;


simplify: For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

I know that there is nothing good in me — I mean in my earthly nature. For, although it is easy for me to want to do right, to act rightly is not easy.


rate difficulty: And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked Jehovah to wrath.

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


simplify: his own hands shall bring the offerings of Jehovah made by fire; the fat with the breast shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave-offering before Jehovah.

He himself is to take to the Lord the offering made by fire, even the fat with the breast, so that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the Lord.


rate difficulty: And number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so.

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


simplify: And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

And Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.


rate difficulty: `And other fell upon the good ground, and having sprung up, it made fruit an hundred fold.' These things saying, he was calling, `He having ears to hear--let him hear.'


simplify: And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;

And on the eighth day Moses sent for Aaron and his sons and the responsible men of Israel;


rate difficulty: And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was murdered, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.

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


simplify: Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

When blows overtake the man of pride, the simple will get sense; say sharp words to the wise, and knowledge will be made clear to him.


rate difficulty: Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of Jehovah cometh, for it is at hand;

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


rate difficulty: Unto a foreigner thou mayest lend upon interest; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon interest, that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all that thou puttest thy hand unto, in the land whither thou goest in to possess it.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 19 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And they said to Joshua, Truly, the Lord has given all the land into our hands; and all the people of the land have become like water because of us.

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


rate difficulty: And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.

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


simplify: Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not.

Does he feel grateful to his servant for doing what he is told?


simplify: I fell also to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute?

I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’


rate difficulty: For a hated one when she ruleth, And a maid-servant when she succeedeth her mistress.

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


simplify: `What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.

What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and put the tenants to death, and he will let the vineyard to others.


simplify: and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands.

And had seen that some of his disciples took their bread with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands.


simplify: And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the Lord’s battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.

And Saul said to David, Here is my oldest daughter Merab, whom I will give you for your wife: only be strong for me, fighting in the Lord's wars. For Saul said, Let it not be through me that his fate comes to him, but through the Philistines.


rate difficulty: and he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more; neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more: the first things are passed away.

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


rate difficulty: and he shall bring his trespass-offering unto Jehovah for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him as concerning his sin.

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


rate difficulty: Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,


rate difficulty: But I will come to you in a short time, if it is pleasing to the Lord, and I will take note, not of the word of those who are full of pride, but of the power.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

By the seed which was sown among the brambles is meant the person who hears the message, but the cares of life and the glamour of wealth completely choke the message, so that it gives no return.


rate difficulty: And [some] of the sons of the Kohathites, their brethren, were over the loaves to be set in rows, to prepare them every sabbath.

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


simplify: They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

They gave orders for a day of public sorrow, and put Naboth at the head of the people.


simplify: And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?

When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue; and the people, as they listened, were deeply impressed. “Where did he get this?” they said, “and what is this wisdom that has been given him? And these miracles which he is doing?


simplify: Every one who is coming unto me, and is hearing my words, and is doing them, I will shew you to whom he is like;

Everyone who comes to me and listens to my teaching and acts on it — I will show you to whom they may be compared.


simplify: Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not.

Then he went on to say hard things to the towns where most of his works of power were done, because they had not been turned from their sins.


rate difficulty: And when they had mocked him, they took the cloak off him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him away to crucify.

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


rate difficulty: and Pharaoh sendeth, and lo, not even one of the cattle of Israel hath died, and the heart of Pharaoh is hard, and he hath not sent the people away.

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


rate difficulty: [Then] let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone!

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


simplify: And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.

And that they were to give out an order, and make it public in all their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, Go out to the mountain and get olive branches and branches of field olives and of myrtle, and palm branches and branches of thick trees, to make tents, as it says in the book.


simplify: And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.

Now after this, the son of the woman of the house became ill, so ill that there was no breath in him.


rate difficulty: The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; And the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.

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


rate difficulty: Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the Lord.

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


simplify: And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

“Look,” he exclaimed, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at God’s right hand!”


rate difficulty: By these three plagues were the third part of men killed, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which goes out of their mouths.

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


rate difficulty: who has delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver; in whom we confide that he will also yet deliver;

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


rate difficulty: The children of your noble sister, who is of God's selection, send you their love.


rate difficulty: And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

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


simplify: So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.


simplify: And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson’s wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father’s house with fire: have ye called us to take that we have? is it not so?

So on the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, Get from your husband the answer to his question by some trick or other, or we will have you and your father's house burned with fire; did you get us here to take all we have?


simplify: For if ye shall diligently keep all this commandment which I command you, to do it, to love Jehovah your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;

For if you take care to keep all the orders which I give you, and to do them; loving the Lord your God and walking in all his ways and being true to him:


rate difficulty: What shall I testify unto thee? what shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? For thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?

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


simplify: And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.

Then the armed men were for putting the prisoners to death, so that no one would get away by swimming.


rate difficulty: And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth–lehem, that is at the gate!

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


simplify: This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.

This is the law about the leper's disease in the thread of wool or linen material, in clothing or in anything of skin, saying how it is to be judged clean or unclean.


rate difficulty: Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say again, Behold the pattern of the altar of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between us and you.

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


simplify: that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of them that sit thereon, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, and small and great.

So that you may take for your food the flesh of kings, and of captains, and of strong men, and of horses and of those who are seated on them, and the flesh of all men, free and unfree, small and great.


simplify: I also will laugh inthe day ofyour calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear;


simplify: Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

Assistant officers should be faithful partners who manage their children and their households well.


simplify: And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?

And when your children say to you, What is the reason of this act of worship?


simplify: He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.

His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.


rate difficulty: and thou shalt set him before Eleazar the priest, and before the whole assembly; and give him commandment before their eyes.

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


simplify: He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.

He who is not with me is against me, and he who will not give me help in getting people together is driving them away.


simplify: And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

And that year the children of Israel were crushed under their yoke; for eighteen years all the children of Israel on the other side of Jordan, in the land of the Amorites which is in Gilead, were cruelly crushed down.


simplify: He will again have compassion upon us; he will tread our iniquities under foot; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

He will again have pity on us; he will put our sins under his feet: and you will send all our sins down into the heart of the sea.


simplify: in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;

people whose minds have been blinded by the God of this age, unbelievers as they are, so that the light from the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the incarnation of God, should not shine for them.


rate difficulty: And Hiram sent in the fleet his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon;

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


simplify: Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;

will fall on every human being who persists in wrong-doing — on the Jew first, but also on the Greek.


rate difficulty: So I have made an oath to the family of Eli that no offering of meat or of meal which they may make will ever take away the sin of his family.

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


simplify: And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even unto the Jabbok, and unto the Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again peaceably.

And the king of the children of Ammon said to the men sent by Jephthah, Because Israel, when he came up out of Egypt, took away my land, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and as far as Jordan: so now, give me back those lands quietly.


rate difficulty: And when they had appointed him a day, they came to him into his lodging in great number; to whom he expounded the matter, testifying the kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning till evening.

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


simplify: especially because thou art expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.

The more so, because you are expert in all questions to do with the Jews and their ways: so I make my request to you to give me a hearing to the end.


rate difficulty: Then the men in authority over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, came to Moses,

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


simplify: And her masters having seen that the hope of their employment was gone, having caught Paul and Silas, drew <FI>them<Fi> to the market-place, unto the rulers,

When her masters saw that there was no hope of further profit from her, they seized Paul and Silas, dragged them into the public square to the authorities,


rate difficulty: Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.

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


simplify: So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.

So Joab and the people who were with him went forward into the fight against the Aramaeans, and they went in flight before him.


rate difficulty: And they went straight from the boat and their father and came after him.

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


simplify: and they were the more urgent, saying--`He doth stir up the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea--having begun from Galilee--unto this place.'

But they insisted: “He is stirring up the people by his teaching all through Judea; he began with Galilee and has now come here.”


rate difficulty: And Samuel saith unto Saul, `Why hast thou troubled me, to bring me up?' And Saul saith, `I have great distress, and the Philistines are fighting against me, God hath turned aside from me, and hath not answered me any more, either by the hand of the prophets, or by dreams; and I call for thee to let me know what I do.'

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


rate difficulty: But if ye had known what is: I will have mercy and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

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


simplify: Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

To Christ’s people at Ephesus who are faithful to him, from Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God.


rate difficulty: I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.

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


rate difficulty: Let him take his offering for wrongdoing to the Lord, to the door of the Tent of meeting; let him give a male sheep as an offering for wrongdoing.


simplify: And Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim begat Eliud;

Azor of Zadok, Zadok of Achim, Achim of Eliud,


rate difficulty: Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;

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


rate difficulty: Indeed, no prayer [availeth] when he stretcheth out [his] hand: though they cry when he destroyeth.

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


simplify: And if any one say aught unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them.

And if anyone says anything to you, you will say, The Lord has need of them; and straight away he will send them.


rate difficulty: As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the Lord have poured out my fury upon you.

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


rate difficulty: And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.


simplify: and it shall become to you for a testimony.

Then will be your opportunity of witnessing for me.


simplify: Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the Lord thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you like the stars of heaven in number.


rate difficulty: Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say unto their lords, Bring, and let us drink.

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


rate difficulty: Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, Anddrank the wine of their drink-offering? Let them rise up and help you, Let them be your protection.

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


simplify: And Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Jehovah greatly:

And Ahab sent for Obadiah, the controller of the king's house. (Now Obadiah had the fear of the Lord before him greatly;


simplify: And the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did they.

So the children of Israel did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.


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

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 10 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Happy is that servant who, when his lord comes, is doing so.

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


simplify: My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

My friends, whatever may be the temptations that beset you from time to time, always regard them as a reason for rejoicing,


simplify: And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto Jehovah before Eli the priest.

Then Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child became the servant of the Lord under the direction of Eli the priest.


rate difficulty: Not every one who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he that does the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

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


simplify: and Jesus that is called Justus, who are of the circumcision: these only are my fellow-workers unto the kingdom of God, men that have been a comfort unto me.

And Jesus, whose other name is Justus; these are of the circumcision: they are my only brother-workers for the kingdom of God, who have been a comfort to me.


rate difficulty: And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:

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


rate difficulty: The Lord God which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.

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


simplify: There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children.

Now there were seven brothers, and the first had a wife and came to his end, having no children;


simplify: and suddenly a great earthquake came, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, opened also presently were all the doors, and of all--the bands were loosed;

suddenly there was an earthquake of such violence that the jail was shaken to its foundations; all the doors flew open, and all the prisoners’ chains were loosened.


simplify: And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

And the angel said to me — ‘The waters that you saw, where the Harlot is seated, are throngs of people and men of all nations and languages.


rate difficulty: And Peter answering said to him, If all shall be offended in thee, I will never be offended.

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


rate difficulty: Put on, I pray thee, excellency and loftiness, Yea, honour and beauty put on.

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


simplify: but if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father’s servant in time past, so will I now be thy servant; then wilt thou defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.

But if you go back to the town and say to Absalom, I will be your servant, O king; as in the past I have been your father's servant, so now I will be yours: then you will be able to keep Ahithophel's designs against me from being put into effect.


rate difficulty: The children of Parosh, two thousand, one hundred and seventy-two.

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


simplify: But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.

But Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, got away from Johanan, with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon.


rate difficulty: Again, when an upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, and I put a cause of falling in his way, death will overtake him: because you have given him no word of his danger, death will overtake him in his evil-doing, and there will be no memory of the upright acts which he has done; but I will make you responsible for his blood.

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simplify: Then came near the heads of fathers’housesof the Levites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel;

Then the heads of the families of the Levites came to Eleazar the priest and Joshua, the son of Nun, and to the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel;


rate difficulty: Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.

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


rate difficulty: Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister, and call intelligence [thy] kinswoman:


rate difficulty: Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything beforeGod: forGod is in the heavens, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few.

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


simplify: Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the family of the Gileadites.

The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir was the father of Gilead: of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.


simplify: They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them.

Their interest in you is not good; but their desire is that you may be shut out, so that you may go after them.


simplify: And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah.

Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was living in the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he got for himself a servant-wife from Beth-lehem-judah.


simplify: And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob–adonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests.

And with them, Shemaiah and Nethaniah and Zebadiah and Asahel and Shemiramoth and Jehonathan and Adonijah and Tobijah and Tob-adonijah, the Levites; and Elishama and Jehoram the priests.


rate difficulty: And Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak to you, saying, Do not sin against the lad? But ye did not hearken; and now behold, his blood also is required.

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


rate difficulty: And when the seven for the four thousand, the filling of how many baskets of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.

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


simplify: and that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah hath spoken unto them by Moses.

Teaching the children of Israel all the laws which the Lord has given them by the hand of Moses.


simplify: Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea from Syria; and, behold, they are in Hazazon-tamar (the same is En-gedi).

And they came to Jehoshaphat with the news, saying, A great army is moving against you from Edom across the sea; and now they are in Hazazon-tamar (which is En-gedi).


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


simplify: in whom also ye are builded together, for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

And, through union in him, you also are being built up together, to be a place where God lives through the Spirit.


rate difficulty: Of the sons of Bani, Maadai, Amram, and Uel,

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


simplify: But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

But it is our desire, brothers, that you may be certain about those who are sleeping; so that you may have no need for sorrow, as others have who are without hope.


rate difficulty: For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, The good Jehovah pardon every one

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


rate difficulty: And they removed from Tahath, and encamped at Terah.


rate difficulty: And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, the rear-guard of all the camps according to their hosts, and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai;

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rate difficulty: Or if he becomes unclean through touching unconsciously any unclean thing of man, whatever it may be, when it is made clear to him he will be responsible:

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simplify: So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.

So that in the ears of the people the cry of joy was mixed with the sound of weeping; for the cries of the people were loud and came to the ears of those who were a long way off.


simplify: And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with a great wonder.

And I saw the woman overcome as with the wine of the blood of the saints, and the blood of those put to death because of Jesus. And when I saw her, I was overcome with a great wonder.


rate difficulty: Who hath ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound the waters in his garment? Who hath established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou knowest?

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


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night stand not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

The Lord has said, If I have not made day and night, and if the limits of heaven and earth have not been fixed by me,


simplify: But I said, How I will put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! and I said, Ye shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me.

But I said, How am I to put you among the children, and give you a desired land, a heritage of glory among the armies of the nations? and I said, You are to say to me, My father; and not be turned away from me.


simplify: Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee?

Be a prophet, O Christ, and say who gave you a blow!


rate difficulty: And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the Lord God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.

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


simplify: And evening having come, they brought to him many demoniacs, and he did cast out the spirits with a word, and did heal all who were ill,

In the evening the people brought to Jesus many who were possessed by demons; and he drove out the spirits with a word, and cured all who were ill,


rate difficulty: And it had three rooms on this side of it and three on that; its uprights and its covered ways were the same size as those of the first doorway: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

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


rate difficulty: And if a man shall lie with his uncle’s wife, he hath uncovered his uncle’s nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

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


rate difficulty: And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his father Uzziah had done; only he entered not into the temple of Jehovah. And the people still acted corruptly.


rate difficulty: And I came this day to the well, and said, Jehovah,God of my master Abraham, if now thou wilt prosper my way on which I go,

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


simplify: `And to the messenger of the assembly in Pergamos write: These things saith he who is having the sharp two-edged sword:

To the angel of the church in Pergamus write: —  “These are the words of him who holds the sharp two-edged sword: —


simplify: God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

In no way: because if it is so, how is God able to be the judge of all the world?


simplify: because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;

Because Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the hater of all the Jews, had made designs for their destruction, attempting to get a decision by Pur (that is, chance) with a view to putting an end to them and cutting them off;


simplify: And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.

And they made designs, all of them together, to come and make an attack on Jerusalem, causing trouble there.


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

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simplify: And being let go, they went unto their own friends, and declared whatever the chief priests and the elders said unto them,

After they had been set at liberty, the apostles went to their friends and told them what the chief priests and the councillors had said to them.


rate difficulty: And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the passover to Jehovah.


rate difficulty: Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.

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


simplify: And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimeus, the son of Timeus, sat by the highway side begging.

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 they took up of broken pieces twelve hand-baskets full, and of the fishes,

and they picked up enough broken pieces to fill twelve baskets, as well as some of the fish.


rate difficulty: In it I have made a place for the ark, in which is the agreement which the Lord made with our fathers, when he took them out of the land of Egypt.

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


rate difficulty: And he shall present his offering to Jehovah, one yearling he-lamb without blemish for a burnt-offering, and one yearling ewe-lamb without blemish for a sin-offering, and one ram without blemish for a peace-offering;

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


simplify: O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the Lord straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?

Is the Lord quickly made angry? are these his doings? do not his words do good to his people Israel?


simplify: And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.

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


rate difficulty: And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, [Deal] gently for my sake with the young man Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.

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


simplify: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

and if children, then heirs — heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ, since we share Christ’s sufferings in order that we may also share his glory.


simplify: and He may send Jesus Christ who before hath been preached to you,

and so that he may send you, in Jesus, your long-appointed Christ.


simplify: My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.

My heart is overflowing with knowledge, my lips say what is true.


simplify: which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God; to the end that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

Which is a clear sign of the decision which God in his righteousness has made; to give you a part in his kingdom, for which you have undergone this pain;


rate difficulty: And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah;

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


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

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


rate difficulty: and the woman hasteth, and runneth, and declareth to her husband, and saith unto him, `Lo, he hath appeared unto me--the man who came on <FI>that<Fi> day unto me.'

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


simplify: Moreover the altar that was at Beth–el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.

And the altar at Beth-el, and the high place put up by Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil, that altar and that high place were pulled down; and the high place was burned and crushed to dust and the Asherah was burned.


rate difficulty: This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.


rate difficulty: And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.

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


simplify: Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.

And if he cannot, then, while the other is still at a distance, he sends envoys and asks for terms of peace.


simplify: He that shutteth his eyes, it is to devise perverse things: He that compresseth his lips bringeth evil to pass.

He whose eyes are shut is a man of twisted purposes, and he who keeps his lips shut tight makes evil come about.


simplify: So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.

So we went on with the work: and half of them had spears in their hands from the dawn of the morning till the stars were seen.


rate difficulty: And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head unto Manasseh’s head.

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


simplify: and that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.

And that you will keep safe my father and mother and my brothers and sisters and all they have, so that death may not come on us?


rate difficulty: Jehovah hath brought forth our righteousnesses, Come, and we recount in Zion the work of Jehovah our God.

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


simplify: Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

Do not enter into inconsistent relations with those who reject the faith. For what partnership can there be between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what has light to do with darkness?


rate difficulty: The grass-lands by the Nile, and everything planted by the Nile, will become dry, or taken away by the wind, and will come to an end.

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


rate difficulty: It is as sport to a foolish [man] to do wickedness; but a man of understanding hath wisdom.

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


simplify: And their border went up toward the sea, and Maralah, and reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that is before Jokneam;

And their limit goes up to the west to Maralah, stretching to Dabbesheth, and to the stream in front of Jokneam;


rate difficulty: and the bases of the pillars of copper, the hooks of the pillars and their connecting-rods of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals of silver; and all the pillars of the court were fastened together with [rods of] silver.

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


simplify: Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite,

Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel, the sons of Hotham the Aroerite,


simplify: And Haman said unto the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honor,

And Haman, answering the king, said, For the man whom the king has delight in honouring,


rate difficulty: and over the host of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan.

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


rate difficulty: So faith then [is] by a report, but the report byGod's word.


simplify: Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.

Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith.


simplify: Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.

Then comes Jesus with them to a place named Gethsemane, and says to his disciples, Be seated here, while I go over there for prayer.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Paul in the night, in a vision, Have no fear and go on preaching:


simplify: God did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have ye not known--in Elijah--what the Writing saith? how he doth plead with God concerning Israel, saying,

God has not rejected his people, whom he chose from the first. Have you forgotten the words of scripture in the story of Elijah — how he appeals to God against Israel?


rate difficulty: For man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upwards.

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


simplify: And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

And the sixth let what was in his vessel come out on the great river Euphrates; and it became dry, so that the way might be made ready for the kings from the east.


rate difficulty: As they remained silent, Jesus looked around at them in anger, grieving at the hardness of their hearts, and said to the man: “Stretch out your hand.”The man stretched it out; and his hand had become sound.


simplify: And the Lord’s servant must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing,

For it is not right for the Lord's servant to make trouble, but he is to be gentle to all, ready in teaching, putting up with wrong,


simplify: so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another.

so we, by our union in Christ, many though we are, form but one body, and individually we are related one to another as its parts.


simplify: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

who, by the exercise of his power to bring everything into subjection to himself, will make this body that we have in our humiliation like to that body which he has in his glory.


simplify: Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

Have true scales and a true ephah and a true bath.


simplify: neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Jehovah, saying, Jehovah will surely deliver us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

And do not let Hezekiah make you put your faith in the Lord, saying, The Lord will certainly keep us safe, and this town will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.


simplify: Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.

Say not, Why were the days which have gone by better than these? Such a question comes not from wisdom.


simplify: And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.

And he put the king of Ai to death, hanging him on a tree till evening: and when the sun went down, Joshua gave them orders to take his body down from the tree, and put it in the public place of the town, covering it with a great mass of stones, which is there to this day.


simplify: But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.

But though I am rough in my way of talking, I am not so in knowledge, as we have made clear to all by our acts among you.


simplify: If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;

If your people go out to war against their attackers, by whatever way you may send them, if they make their prayers to you turning their faces to this town of yours and to this house which I have put up for your name:


rate difficulty: And he shall present thereof his offering, an offering by fire to Jehovah; the fat that covereth the inwards and all the fat that is on the inwards,

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simplify: And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.

And now, O you priests, this order is for you.


rate difficulty: Doth a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burnt?

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


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

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


rate difficulty: from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the border of Ekron northward, which is reckoned to the Canaanites; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim,

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


simplify: her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Jehovah: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

Her first husband, who had sent her away, may not take her back after she has been wife to another; for that is disgusting to the Lord: and you are not to be a cause of sin in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.


rate difficulty: But if that evil bondman should say in his heart, My lord delays to come,

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


rate difficulty: Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the animals which ye shall eat of all the beasts which are on the earth.

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


rate difficulty: And when these signs come to you, see that you take the chance which is offered you; for God is with you.


rate difficulty: And when inquisition was made of the matter, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.


simplify: and Dishon and Ezer and Dishan: these are the chiefs that came of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.

Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan: these are the chiefs of the Horites, offspring of Seir in the land of Edom.


rate difficulty: And this hath been a small thing in thy sight, OGod; and thou hast spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the rank of a man of high degree, Jehovah Elohim.

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


simplify: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.

And you are to have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.


rate difficulty: A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

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


simplify: And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.

And I was told — ‘You must prophesy again about men of many peoples, and nations, and languages, and about many kings.’


simplify: And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.

Now Hadad was very pleasing to Pharaoh, so that he gave him the sister of his wife, Tahpenes the queen, for his wife.


simplify: So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

So two or three towns went wandering to one town looking for water, and did not get enough: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.

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


rate difficulty: And those who had stones of great price gave them to the store of the house of the Lord, under the care of Jehiel the Gershonite.

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


simplify: I quieted myself until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.


simplify: Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

You snakes and children of snakes! How can you escape being sentenced to Gehenna?


rate difficulty: `And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee;

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


rate difficulty: For so I was ordered by the word of the Lord, who said, You are not to take food or a drink of water, and you are not to go back the way you came.

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


rate difficulty: And immediately the Spirit drives him out into the wilderness.

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


rate difficulty: But Philip was found at Ashdod, and, as he went on his way, he told the good news in all the towns through which he passed, until he came to Caesarea.

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


simplify: And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.


simplify: Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thy handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.

So now, give ear to the voice of your servant, and let me give you a little bread; and take some food to give you strength when you go on your way.


simplify: For all that do such things, even all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.

For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.


simplify: and his feet like to fine brass, as in a furnace having been fired, and his voice as a sound of many waters,

and his feet were like brass’ as when molten in a furnace; ‘his voice was like the sound of many streams,’


rate difficulty: and we will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victuals for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.

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


simplify: And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.

Pilate decided that their demand should be granted.


simplify: So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.

Then Joshua let the people go away, every man to his heritage.


rate difficulty: And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.


simplify: Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well.

Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.


simplify: The watchmen that go about the city found me, They smote me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls took away my mantle from me.

The keepers who go about the town overtook me; they gave me blows and wounds; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.


rate difficulty: lo, my daughter, the virgin, and his concubine, let me bring them out, I pray you, and humble ye them, and do to them that which is good in your eyes, and to this man do not this foolish thing.'

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


rate difficulty: `Now Thou dost send away Thy servant, Lord, according to Thy word, in peace,

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


rate difficulty: We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, even as it is meet, for that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another aboundeth;

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


simplify: And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

And that testimony is that God gave us eternal life, and that this life is in his Son.


simplify: Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.


simplify: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ <FI>is<Fi> with your spirit! Amen.

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


simplify: Saying, What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight.

What would you have me do for you? And he said, Lord, that I may be able to see again.


rate difficulty: And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am Jehovah your God.

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


rate difficulty: Wherein ye exult, for a little while at present, if needed, put to grief by various trials,

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


simplify: For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.

For our preaching is not about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants through Jesus.


rate difficulty: For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those that are cut off, neither will seek those that are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the flesh of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces.

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


simplify: For ye are our glory and our joy.


rate difficulty: How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! and to get knowledge is more to be desired than silver.

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


rate difficulty: Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

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


rate difficulty: It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

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


simplify: Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ salute you.

Give one another a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ send their love to you.


simplify: And if a man will redeem aught of his tithe, he shall add unto it the fifth part thereof.

And if a man has a desire to get back any of the tenth part which he has given, let him give a fifth more.


simplify: And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.

And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief of those whose places were at the king's side.


simplify: And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:

And for a growth or a bad place or a bright mark on the skin;


simplify: `But, who is he of you--having a servant ploughing or feeding--who, to him having come in out of the field, will say, Having come near, recline at meat?

Which of you, if he had a servant ploughing, or tending the sheep, would say to him, when he came in from the fields, ‘Come at once and take your place at the table,’


rate difficulty: Go ye therefore unto the partings of the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage feast.

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


simplify: and saying, `Sir, deal kindly with my son, for he is lunatic, and doth suffer miserably, for often he doth fall into the fire, and often into the water,

“Master, take pity on my son, for he is epileptic and suffers terribly; indeed, he often falls into the fire and into the water;


simplify: Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways: And how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?

See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.


rate difficulty: You give no answer to my cry, and take no note of my prayer.


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;

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


simplify: Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?

But God was turned from them and let them give worship to the stars of heaven, as it says in the book of the prophets, Did you make offerings to me of sheep and oxen for forty years in the waste land, O house of Israel?


simplify: `Hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

Hypocrites! It was well said by Isaiah when he prophesied about you —


rate difficulty: And I have turned aside the names of the lords from her mouth, And they are not remembered any more by their name.

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


rate difficulty: Keep in mind your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, not looking at the hard heart of this people, or their evil-doing and their sin:

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


simplify: saying to them, `It hath been written, My house is a house of prayer--but ye made it a den of robbers.'

saying as he did so: “Scripture says — ‘My house will be a house of prayer’; but you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”


simplify: And it came to pass, when he had sat down with them to meat, he took the bread and blessed; and breaking it he gave to them.

And when he was seated with them at table, he took the bread, and said words of blessing and, making division of it, he gave it to them.


rate difficulty: And Joab said to the man that told him, And behold, thou sawest [him], and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten silver pieces and a girdle.

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


simplify: and those eating were about five thousand men, apart from women and children.

The men who ate were about five thousand in number, without counting women and children.


simplify: And he said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to enquire of Baal–zebub the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no God in Israel to enquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.

And he said to him, This is the word of the Lord: Because you sent men to put a question to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, for this reason you will never again get down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you.


simplify: One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

This man puts one day before another: to that man they are the same. Let every man be certain in his mind.


rate difficulty: `And when a man putteth a blemish in his fellow, as he hath done so it is done to him;

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


simplify: Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

Why, then, when I came, was there no man? and no one to give answer to my voice? has my hand become feeble, so that it is unable to take up your cause? or have I no power to make you free? See, at my word the sea becomes dry, I make the rivers a waste land: their fish are dead for need of water, and make an evil smell.


simplify: Let no one say, being tempted--`From God I am tempted,' for God is not tempted of evil, and Himself doth tempt no one,

Let no one say, when they are tempted, “It is God who is tempting me!” For God, who cannot be tempted to do wrong, does not himself tempt anyone.


rate difficulty: And Manoah said to the Angel of Jehovah, What is thy name, that when thy word cometh to pass we may do thee honour?

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


simplify: And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their goods and the servants which they had got in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan.


rate difficulty: They shall only bow down under the prisoners, and shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith, `If I find in Sodom fifty righteous in the midst of the city, then have I borne with all the place for their sake.'

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


rate difficulty: 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.

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


simplify: And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, valiant men, eighteen.

Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, eighteen able men.


rate difficulty: Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted.

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


rate difficulty: And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau’s hands: so he blessed him.

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


simplify: But he that doubteth is condemned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith; and whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

But he who is in doubt is judged if he takes food, because he does it not in faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.


rate difficulty: For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: own therefore such.


rate difficulty: And make all its vessels, the baskets for taking away the dust of the fire, the spades and basins and meat-hooks and fire-trays, of brass.

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


simplify: and our hope <FI>is<Fi> stedfast for you, knowing that even as ye are partakers of the sufferings--so also of the comfort.

and our hope for you remains unshaken. We know that, as you are sharing our sufferings, you will also share our consolation.


simplify: And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.

And all the people said they would do so, for it seemed right to them.


simplify: Now these are the chiefs of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his possession in their cities, to wit, Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon’s servants.

Now these are the chiefs of the divisions of the country who were living in Jerusalem: but in the towns of Judah everyone was living on his heritage in the towns, that is, Israel, the priests, the Levites, the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants.


rate difficulty: Because the ground hath been broken, For there hath been no rain in the land, Ashamed have been husbandmen, They have covered their head.

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


rate difficulty: And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.

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


rate difficulty: And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes, and by your thousands.


simplify: But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner’s men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.

But David's men had put to death three hundred and sixty of the men of Benjamin and of Abner's men


simplify: Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)

You are to keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your bread be without leaven, as I gave you orders, at the regular time in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt); and let no one come before me without an offering:


rate difficulty: While he was still talking, a bright cloud came over them: and a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased; give ear to him.


rate difficulty: And I will scatter toward every wind all that are round about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.


simplify: The children of Gibeon, ninety and five.


rate difficulty: And a certain man drew his bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the armor: wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thy hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am sore wounded.

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


simplify: Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

So then, make a statement of your sins to one another, and say prayers for one another so that you may be made well. The prayer of a good man is full of power in its working.


rate difficulty: Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:

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


rate difficulty: Now send for all the prophets of Baal and all his servants and all his priests, to come to me; let no one keep away: for I have a great offering to make to Baal; anyone who is not present, will be put to death. This Jehu did with deceit, his purpose being the destruction of the servants of Baal.


simplify: And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.

And in the same way, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, went by on the other side.


rate difficulty: And he said, Come. And Peter went down from the boat, and walked upon the waters to come to Jesus.


simplify: and it came to pass, in his blessing them, he was parted from them, and was borne up to the heaven;

As he was in the act of blessing them, he left them.


simplify: A fool’s lips enter into contention, And his mouth calleth for stripes.

A foolish man's lips are a cause of fighting, and his mouth makes him open to blows.


simplify: Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.

Let your cry go up to the Lord: O wall of the daughter of Zion, let your weeping be flowing down like a stream day and night; give yourself no rest, let not your eyes keep back the drops of sorrow.


rate difficulty: On one occasion Jesus was staying in a town, when he saw a man who was covered with leprosy. When the leper saw Jesus, he threw himself on his face and implored his help: “Master, if only you are willing, you are able to make me clean.”

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


simplify: And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.

And say to Amasa, Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God's punishment be on me, if I do not make you chief of the army before me at all times in place of Joab!


simplify: At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

You will make sport of destruction and need, and will have no fear of the beasts of the earth.


simplify: and Judas Iscariot, who did also deliver him up; and they come into a house.

and Judas Iscariot, the man who betrayed him.


simplify: And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.

Every male among you, from one generation to another, is to undergo circumcision when he is eight days old, with every servant whose birth takes place in your house, or for whom you gave money to someone of another country, and not of your seed.


simplify: And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.

Then, turning his face about, the king gave a blessing to all the men of Israel; and they were all on their feet together.


simplify: and the seven took her, and left no seed, last of all died also the woman;

All the seven died and left no family. The woman herself died last of all.


rate difficulty: And I will put my Spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I will place you in your own land: and ye shall know that I Jehovah have spoken, and have done [it], saith Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: The book of the generations of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.


simplify: And they were double beneath; and in like manner they were entire unto the top thereof unto one ring: thus he did to both of them in the two corners.

These were joined together at the base and at the top to one ring, so forming the two angles.


rate difficulty: And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the Lord shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt anoint the laver and its stand, and hallow it.

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


rate difficulty: “Are not you, then, the Egyptian who some time ago raised an insurrection and led the four thousand Bandits out into the wilderness?”

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


simplify: And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And bringest me into judgment with thee?

Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?


simplify: And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.

And Reuben said, Put my two sons to death if I do not come back to you with him; let him be in my care and I will give him safely back to you.


simplify: For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

For I did not get it from man, and I was not given teaching in it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.


simplify: But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.

You, friends, must not grow weary of doing what is right.


simplify: And he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and the height thereof was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.

And he made a great metal water-vessel ten cubits across from edge to edge, five cubits high and thirty cubits round.


rate difficulty: because the Lamb that <FI>is<Fi> in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters, and wipe away shall God every tear from their eyes.'

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


simplify: And they began to enquire among themselves, which of them it was that should do this thing.

Then they began questioning one another which of them it could be who was going to do this.


simplify: But he is in onemind, and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

But his purpose is fixed and there is no changing it; and he gives effect to the desire of his soul.


simplify: And Jesus having looked round, saith to his disciples, `How hardly shall they who have riches enter into the reign of God!'

Then Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples: “How hard it will be for people of wealth to enter the kingdom of God!”


simplify: Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me.

“Pray to the Lord for me, all of you,” Simon answered, “so that none of the things you have spoken of may happen to me.”


simplify: And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron: (now the name of Hebron before was Kirjath–arba:) and they slew Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.

And Caleb went against the Canaanites of Hebron: (now in earlier times Hebron was named Kiriath-arba:) and he put Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai to the sword.


rate difficulty: And Saul commandeth his servants, `Speak unto David gently, saying, Lo, the king hath delighted in thee, and all his servants have loved thee, and now, be son-in-law to the king.'

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


simplify: And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

And when the living beings went on, the wheels went by their side; and when the living beings were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.


simplify: Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.

And again take some of these and put them in the fire, burning them up in the fire; and say to all the children of Israel,


simplify: I have digged and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.


simplify: when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be marvelled at in all them that believed (because our testimony unto you was believed) in that day.

At his coming, when he will have glory in his saints, and will be a cause of wonder in all those who had faith (because our witness among you had effect) in that day.


simplify: And God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he madethe stars also.

And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.


rate difficulty: And the breast of the wave-offering, and the shoulder of the heave-offering shall ye eat in a clean place, thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee; for [as] thy due, and thy sons' due, are they given of the sacrifices of peace-offerings of the children of Israel.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.

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


simplify: and the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil one;

And the field is the world; and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom; and the evil seeds are the sons of the Evil One;


simplify: And this man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice unto Jehovah of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests unto Jehovah, were there.

Now this man went up from his town every year to give worship and to make offerings to the Lord of armies in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the Lord, were there.


rate difficulty: And he caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.

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


simplify: And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:

‘Every thing that is accursed will cease to be.’ The throne of God and of the Lamb will be within it, and his servants will worship him;


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


simplify: Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?

Why did you make a secret of your flight, not giving me word of it, so that I might have sent you away with joy and songs, with melody and music?


simplify: And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon named Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a drag into the sea--for they were fishers--

As Jesus was walking along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers — Simon, also known as Peter, and his brother Andrew — casting a net into the Sea; for they were fishermen.


simplify: And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the priest, which were of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.

And the heritage came out for the families of the Kohathites: the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, were given thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.


rate difficulty: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.

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


simplify: What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?

My friends, what is the good of a person’s saying that they have faith, if they do not prove it by actions? Can such faith save them?


simplify: Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.

Then Amaziah got all Judah together and put them in order by their families, even all Judah and Benjamin, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds: and he had those of twenty years old and over numbered, and they came to three hundred thousand of the best fighting-men, trained for war and in the use of the spear and the body-cover.


simplify: be diligent to come before winter. Salute thee doth Eubulus, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.

Do your utmost to come before winter. Eubulus, Pudens, Linus and Claudia send you their greetings, and so do the rest of the Lord's followers.


rate difficulty: And Enoch walketh habitually with God, and he is not, for God hath taken him.

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rate difficulty: which things are allegorized, for these are the two covenants: one, indeed, from mount Sinai, to servitude bringing forth, which is Hagar;

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


simplify: O Jehovah our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over us; but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.

O Lord, our God, other lords than you have had rule over us; but in you only is our salvation, and no other name will we take on our lips.


rate difficulty: And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.

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


rate difficulty: And he went away from them, and went out of the town to Bethany, and was there for the night.

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


simplify: and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day till the day of his death, for the rest of his life.


simplify: So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.

So I went in and saw; and there every sort of living thing which goes flat on the earth, and unclean beasts, and all the images of the children of Israel, were pictured round about on the wall.


simplify: In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.

As most holy things they are to be your food: let every male have them for food; it is to be holy to you.


simplify: Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the Lord, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking you a king.

Is it not now the time of the grain cutting? My cry will go up to the Lord and he will send thunder and rain: so that you may see and be conscious of your great sin which you have done in the eyes of the Lord in desiring a king for yourselves.


simplify: And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.

Then take some of the blood of the ox, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, draining out all the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.


rate difficulty: So Jeroboam's wife did so, and got up and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah was unable to see, because he was very old.

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simplify: and those dwelling upon the land shall rejoice over them, and shall make merry, and gifts they shall send to one another, because these--the two prophets--did torment those dwelling upon the land.'

Those who live on the earth rejoice over them and are merry, and they will send presents to one another, because these two prophets brought torments on those who live on the earth.


rate difficulty: As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Jehovah. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.

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


simplify: For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.

For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;


simplify: These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the Lord spake with Moses in mount Sinai.

Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day when the word of the Lord came to Moses on Mount Sinai.


simplify: But the things which God foreshowed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

But the things which God had made clear before, by the mouth of all the prophets, that the Christ would have to undergo, he has put into effect in this way.


simplify: Ascribe unto Jehovah, ye kindreds of the peoples, Ascribe unto Jehovah glory and strength;

Give to the Lord, O you families of the peoples, give to the Lord glory and strength.


rate difficulty: Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.

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


rate difficulty: And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; two cities.

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


simplify: If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, Go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, And feed thy kids beside the shepherds’ tents.

If you have not knowledge, O most beautiful among women, go on your way in the footsteps of the flock, and give your young goats food by the tents of the keepers.


rate difficulty: Then Esther spake unto Hathach, and gave him a message unto Mordecai, saying:

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rate difficulty: And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be upon him. And Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son-in-law a second time.

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


rate difficulty: one glory of sun, and another glory of moon, and another glory of stars, for star from star doth differ in glory.

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


simplify: and he appointed him priests for the high places, and for the he-goats, and for the calves which he had made.

And he himself made priests for the high places, and for the images of he-goats and oxen which he had made.


simplify: Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.

And all the people of the country of the Gerasenes made a request to him to go away from them; for they were in great fear: and he got into a boat and went back.