rate difficulty: Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.

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


simplify: And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur.

Then the flag of the children of Reuben went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Elizur, the son of Shedeur.


rate difficulty: And wherever shall pass the appointed staff, which Jehovah shall lay upon him, it shall be with tambours and harps; and with tumultuous battles will he fight with it.

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


rate difficulty: And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

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


simplify: Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, who would make a reckoning with his servants.

For this reason the kingdom of heaven is like a king, who went over his accounts with his servants.


simplify: Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

You must, therefore, dear friends, now that you know this beforehand, be on your guard against being led away by the errors of reckless people, and so lapsing from your present steadfastness;


rate difficulty: So Eleazar the priest took the brass vessels which had been offered by those who were burned up, and they were hammered out to make a cover for the altar:

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


simplify: Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;

So when Esau saw that Isaac had given Jacob his blessing, and sent him away to Paddan-aram to get a wife for himself there, blessing him and saying to him, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan;


rate difficulty: Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham: let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what seems good to thee.

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


rate difficulty: And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

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


simplify: And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.

And it was so: for he got up early on the morning after, and twisting the wool in his hands, he got a basin full of water from the dew on the wool.


simplify: according to a purpose of the ages, which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord,

in accordance with that purpose which runs through all the ages and which he has now accomplished in Jesus, the Christ, our Master.


rate difficulty: The resting-place of Zebulun will be by the sea, and he will be a harbour for ships; the edge of his land will be by Zidon.

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


rate difficulty: And the priests and the Levites will never be without a man to come before me, offering burned offerings and perfumes and meal offerings and offerings of beasts at all times.

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


simplify: After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, a voiceas of a trumpet speaking with me, one saying, Come up hither, and I will show thee the things which must come to pass hereafter.

After these things I saw a door open in heaven, and the first voice came to my ears, like the sound of a horn, saying, Come up here, and I will make clear to you the things which are to come.


rate difficulty: There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon men:


rate difficulty: Thy terribleness hath lifted thee up, The pride of thy heart, O dweller in clefts of the rock, Holding the high place of the height, For thou makest high as an eagle thy nest, From thence I bring thee down, An affirmation of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: Have we not a right to eat and to drink?


simplify: As well their love, as their hatred and their envy, is perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.

Their love and their hate and their envy are now ended; and they have no longer a part for ever in anything which is done under the sun.


simplify: the eleventh to Azarel, his sons and his brethren, twelve:

The eleventh Azarel, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;


simplify: and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.

And I have said, I will take you up out of the sorrows of Egypt into the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, into a land flowing with milk and honey.


rate difficulty: then thou hast said unto them, I am causing my supplication to fall before the king, not to cause me to return to the house of Jonathan, to die there.'

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


rate difficulty: And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt-offering and the sin-offering and the trespass-offering.


rate difficulty: And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Judah.

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


simplify: `The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, did glorify His child Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, he having given judgment to release <FI>him<Fi> ,

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has done honor to his servant Jesus — him whom you gave up and disowned before Pilate, when he had decided to set him free.


simplify: And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.

Now it came about that on the Sabbath he was going through the fields of grain, and his disciples took the heads of the grain for food, crushing them in their hands.


simplify: And after all this the Lord smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.

And after all this the Lord sent on him a disease of the stomach from which it was impossible for him to be made well.


simplify: And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.

Now when Hadad had news in Egypt that David had been put to rest with his fathers, and that Joab, the captain of the army, was dead, he said to Pharaoh, Send me back to my country.


rate difficulty: So I make request to you to take food; for this is for your salvation: not a hair from the head of any of you will come to destruction.

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


rate difficulty: and each in his proper order, a first-fruit Christ, afterwards those who are the Christ's, in his presence,

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


rate difficulty: Keep thy feet when thou goest unto a house of God, and draw near to hear rather than to give of fools the sacrifice, for they do not know they do evil.

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


simplify: After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. Next unto him repaired Hashabiah, the ruler of half the district of Keilah, for his district.

Then came the Levites, Rehum, the son of Bani. By his side was working Hashabiah, ruler of half the division of Keilah, for his division.


simplify: And as they were coming down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, save when the Son of man should have risen again from the dead.

And while they were coming down from the mountain, he gave them orders not to give word to any man of the things they had seen, till the Son of man had come back from the dead.


rate difficulty: But when even was come, his disciples came to him saying, The place is desert, and [much of] the [day] time already gone by; dismiss the crowds, that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves.

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


rate difficulty: And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:

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


simplify: Hebrews are they? I also! Israelites are they? I also! seed of Abraham are they? I also!

Are they Hebrews? So am I! Are they Israelites? So am I! Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I!


rate difficulty: Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.

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


rate difficulty: Now it came about in the fifth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that it was given out publicly that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the towns of Judah to Jerusalem, were to keep from food before the Lord.

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


simplify: Howbeit he shook off the creature into the fire, and took no harm.

But shaking off the beast into the fire, he got no damage.


simplify: saying, `Give also to me this authority, that on whomsoever I may lay the hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit.'

“Give me also this power of yours, so that, if I place my hands on anyone, he may receive the Holy Spirit.”


rate difficulty: And I have turned thee back, And I have put hooks in thy jaws, And have brought thee out, and all thy force, Horses and horsemen, Clothed in perfection all of them, A numerous assembly, <FI>with<Fi> buckler and shield, Handling swords--all of them.

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


rate difficulty: these have one mind, and their own power and authority to the beast they shall give over;

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


simplify: And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, recorder.

And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the army; and Jehoshaphat, son of Ahilud, was keeper of the records.


rate difficulty: For on account of a harlota man is broughtto a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.


rate difficulty: These <FI>are<Fi> births of the heavens and of the earth in their being prepared, in the day of Jehovah God's making earth and heavens;

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


rate difficulty: And Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.

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


simplify: And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah.

And he is to give a meal offering, an ephah for the ox and an ephah for the sheep, and for the lambs whatever he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.


simplify: And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.

And the edges of the four wheels were full of eyes round about.


rate difficulty: but as they had nothing to pay, he forgave both of them [their debt]: [say,] which of them therefore will love him most?


simplify: And the priest of Jupiter whose temple was before the city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the multitudes.

And the priest of the image of Jupiter, which was before the town, took oxen and flowers to the doors of the town, and was about to make an offering with the people.


simplify: For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.

By your help I have made a way through the wall which was shutting me in: by the help of my God I have gone over a wall.


rate difficulty: And he said, Thou shalt not smite [them]: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.

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


rate difficulty: And these are the measures of the altar in cubits: (the cubit being a cubit and a hand's measure;) its hollow base is a cubit high and a cubit wide, and it has an overhanging edge as wide as a hand-stretch all round it:

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


rate difficulty: and he speaketh unto Korah, and unto all his company, saying, `Morning! --and Jehovah is knowing those who are his, and him who is holy, and hath brought near unto Him; even him whom He doth fix on He bringeth near unto Him.

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


simplify: And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave offering before the Lord.

And put them all on the hands of Aaron and of his sons, to be waved for a wave offering before the Lord.


simplify: for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation;

For neither is circumcision nor the omission of it anything; but a new nature is everything.


simplify: Every purpose is established by counsel; And by wise guidance make thou war.

Every purpose is put into effect by wise help: and by wise guiding make war.


simplify: saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.

Saying, The Son of man will undergo much and be put on one side by the rulers and the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and be put to death, and on the third day he will come back to life.


simplify: If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:

If by chance you see a place which a bird has made for itself in a tree or on the earth, with young ones or eggs, and the mother bird seated on the young ones or on the eggs, do not take the mother bird with the young:


rate difficulty: For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.


simplify: Incline thine ear, O Jehovah, and hear; open thine eyes, O Jehovah, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, wherewith he hath sent him to defy the living God.

Let your ear be turned to us, O Lord, and let your eyes be open, O Lord, and see; take note of all the words of Sennacherib who has sent men to say evil against the living God.


rate difficulty: Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:


simplify: And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,

Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables.


simplify: but as then he who was born according to the flesh did persecute him according to the spirit, so also now;

Yet at that time the child born in the course of nature persecuted the child born by the power of the Spirit; and it is the same now.


simplify: Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?

Or what king, when he is setting out to fight another king, does not first sit down and consider if with ten thousand men he is able to meet one who is coming against him with twenty thousand?


simplify: Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

Or did I do wrong in making myself low so that you might be lifted up, because I gave you the good news of God without reward?


rate difficulty: For I am the Lord your God, who makes the sea calm when its waves are thundering: the Lord of armies is his name.


simplify: And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.

And these are the kings who were ruling in the land of Edom before there was any king over the children of Israel.


simplify: `What think ye? if a man may have an hundred sheep, and there may go astray one of them, doth he not--having left the ninety-nine, having gone on the mountains--seek that which is gone astray?

What think you? If a person owns a hundred sheep, and one of them strays, will the person not leave the ninety-nine on the hills, and go and search for the one that is straying?


rate difficulty: And their forty bases of silver; two bases under one board, and two bases under another board.

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


rate difficulty: In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.

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


rate difficulty: And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: --

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


rate difficulty: It is not the great that are wise; neither do the aged understand judgment.

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


rate difficulty: But Saul began to devastate the church; he entered house after house, dragged out men and women alike, and threw them into prison.


rate difficulty: that Jehovah speaketh unto me, saying,

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


rate difficulty: Then I have gathered all the nations, And caused them to go down unto the valley of Jehoshaphat, And I have been judged with them there, Concerning My people and Mine inheritance--Israel, Whom they scattered among nations, And My land they have apportioned.

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


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

And the bases were made in this way; their sides were square, fixed in a framework;


simplify: and having set them in the midst, they were inquiring, `In what power, or in what name did ye do this?'

They had Peter and John brought before them, and questioned them.  “By what power,” they asked, “Or in whose name have men like you done this thing?”


rate difficulty: And Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.

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


rate difficulty: And the third angel sounded [his] trumpet: and there fell out of the heaven a great star, burning as a torch, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters.

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


simplify: It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown upon the earth, though it be less than all the seeds that are upon the earth,

It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is put in the earth, is smaller than all the seeds on the earth,


simplify: Then spake Solomon, The Lord said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

Then Solomon said, O Lord, to the sun you have given the heaven for a living-place, but your living-place was not seen by men;


simplify: And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended.

but, as they have no root, they stand only for a short time; and so, when trouble or persecution arises because of the message, they fall away at once.


simplify: who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am Jehovah.

Who took you out of the land of Egypt that I might be your God: I am the Lord.


simplify: I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord your God.

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


simplify: And Joshua came at that time, and cut off the Anakim from the hill-country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill-country of Judah, and from all the hill-country of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.

And Joshua came at that time and put an end to the Anakim in the hill-country, in Hebron, in Debir, in Anab, and in all the hill-country of Judah and Israel: Joshua gave them and their towns to the curse.


simplify: And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, God save king Solomon.

And Zadok the priest took the vessel of oil out of the Tent, and put the holy oil on Solomon. And when the horn was sounded, all the people said, Long life to King Solomon!


simplify: And I sent them forth unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia; and I told them what they should say unto Iddo, and his brethren the Nethinim, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God.

And I sent them to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and gave them orders what to say to Iddo and his brothers the Nethinim at the place Casiphia, so that they might come back to us with men to do the work of the house of our God.


rate difficulty: The men of Israel were to make a turn about in the fight. And Benjamin had overcome and put to death about thirty of the men of Israel, and were saying, Certainly they are falling back before us as in the first fight.

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


simplify: And, having watched <FI>him<Fi> , they sent forth liers in wait, feigning themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his word, to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor,

Having watched their opportunity, they afterwards sent some spies, who pretended to be good men, to catch Jesus in the course of conversation, and so enable them to give him up to the Governor’s jurisdiction and authority.


simplify: And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.

And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the earth.


simplify: He leadeth priests away stripped, And overthroweth the mighty.

He makes priests prisoners, overturning those in safe positions;


simplify: The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.

Here the Pharisees and Sadducees came up, and, to test Jesus, requested him to show them some sign from the heavens.


simplify: Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength:

Let your hope be in the Lord for ever: for the Lord Jah is an unchanging Rock.


rate difficulty: Thus saith the Lord of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.

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


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

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


simplify: For unto this end was the gospel preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

For this was the reason why the good news of Jesus was given even to the dead, so that they might be judged as men in the flesh, but might be living before God in the spirit.


simplify: Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.

Alas for you students of the law! You have taken away the key of the door of knowledge. You have not gone in yourselves and you have hindered those who try to go in.”


simplify: And Mary remained with her about three months, and turned back to her house.

Mary stayed with Elizabeth about three months, and then returned to her home.


simplify: The simple believeth every word; But the prudent man looketh well to his going.

The simple man has faith in every word, but the man of good sense gives thought to his footsteps.


rate difficulty: For Rehabiah: for sons of Rehabiah, the head Ishshiah.

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


simplify: and say unto them, Hear ye the word of Jehovah, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:

And say to them, Give ear to the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah, and all the people of Jerusalem who come in by these doors:


rate difficulty: Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,

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


simplify: To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure.

And there was a roof over the doorway and as far as the inner house, and to the outside and on the wall all round, inside and outside.


simplify: We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth.

We, therefore, ought to give such people a hearty welcome, and so take our share in their work for the truth.


simplify: Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying on your behalf: I am filled with comfort, I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

My words to you are without fear, I am full of pride on account of you: I have great comfort and joy in all our troubles.


simplify: Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Never let any foul word pass your lips, but only such good words as the occasion demands, so that they may be a help to those who hear them.


simplify: And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

Not turning away from any of the orders which I give you today, to the right hand or to the left, or going after any other gods to give them worship.


simplify: And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement;


rate difficulty: Thirty camels with their young ones, forty cows, ten oxen, twenty asses, and ten young asses.

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


rate difficulty: The money of the offerings for error and the sin-offerings was not taken into the house of the Lord; it was the priests'.

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


simplify: And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased;

And when the men of that place had news of him, they sent into all the country round about, and took to him all who were ill,


rate difficulty: An affirmation of him who is hearing sayings of God--Who a vision of the Almighty seeth, Falling--and eyes uncovered:

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him.

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


simplify: But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,

But a Samaritan, traveling that way, came upon the man, and, when he saw him, he was moved with compassion.


simplify: And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;

And for those who are in sorrow, to give no signs of it; and for those who are glad, to give no signs of joy; and for those who are getting property, to be as if they had nothing;


simplify: And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor; and this was my portion from all my labor.

And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward.


rate difficulty: But if ye inquire anything concerning other matters, it will be settled in the regular assembly.

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


simplify: And Kedesh, and Edrei, and En–hazor,


simplify: Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):

Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt; every man and his family came with Jacob.


simplify: Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But howsoever, let me, I pray thee, also run after Cushi. And Joab said, Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready?

Then Ahimaaz, the son of Zadok, said to Joab again, Whatever may come of it, let me go after the Cushite. And Joab said, Why have you a desire to go, my son, seeing that you will get no reward for your news?


simplify: And the barbarians showed us no common kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us all, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.

And the simple people living there were uncommonly kind to us, for they made a fire for us, and took us in, because it was raining and cold.


rate difficulty: Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.

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


rate difficulty: Of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch; they are unclean unto you.

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


rate difficulty: And if thou say in thy heart, How shall we know the word which Jehovah hath not spoken?

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


rate difficulty: So Esau was full of hate for Jacob because of his father's blessing; and he said in his heart, The days of weeping for my father are near; then I will put my brother Jacob to death.


rate difficulty: for they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, and have mingled the holy seed with the peoples of the lands; and the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this unfaithfulness.

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


simplify: We know that whosoever is begotten of God sinneth not; but he that was begotten of God keepeth himself, and the evil one toucheth him not.

We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.


simplify: And Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

And Cain went away from before the face of the Lord, and made his living-place in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.


rate difficulty: And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And Zeruiah had three sons: Abishai and Joab and Asahel.

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


simplify: And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not say that he would not be a prophet of good but of evil?


simplify: According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee: only the Lord thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses.

As we gave attention to Moses in all things, so we will give attention to you: and may the Lord your God be with you as he was with Moses.


simplify: And Jesus, having come to the parts of Caesarea Philippi, was asking his disciples, saying, `Who do men say me to be--the Son of Man?'

On coming into the neighborhood of Caesarea Philippi, Jesus asked his disciples this question — “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”


rate difficulty: And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.

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


rate difficulty: And he shall offer thereof his offering, even an offering made by fire unto the Lord; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians.

And made the wheels of their war-carriages stiff, so that they had hard work driving them: so the Egyptians said, Let us go in flight from before the face of Israel, for the Lord is fighting for them against the Egyptians.


simplify: And the Lord shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the Lord, and perform it.

And the Lord will give the knowledge of himself to Egypt, and the Egyptians will give honour to the Lord in that day; they will give him worship with offerings and meal offerings, and will take an oath to the Lord and give effect to it.


rate difficulty: And he shall offer of the sacrifice of peace-offerings an offering made by fire unto Jehovah; the fat thereof, the fat tail entire, he shall take away hard by the backbone; and the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,

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


simplify: and Peter having gone without, wept bitterly.


rate difficulty: Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O Lord, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.


simplify: Now the men did diligently observe whether any thing would come from him, and did hastily catch it: and they said, Thy brother Ben–hadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Ben–hadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.

Now the men took it as a sign, and quickly took up his words; and they said, Ben-hadad is your brother. Then he said, Go and get him. So Ben-hadad came out to him and he made him get up into his carriage.


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

But Solomon did not put the children of Israel to forced work; they were the men of war, his servants, his captains, and his chiefs, captains of his war-carriages and of his horsemen.


simplify: to the space above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure.

And there was a roof over the doorway and as far as the inner house, and to the outside and on the wall all round, inside and outside.


simplify: neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questionings, rather than a dispensation of God which is in faith; so do I now.

Or to give attention to stories and long lists of generations, from which come questionings and doubts, in place of God's ordered way of life which is in faith;


simplify: And Gideon came to the Jordan, andpassed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing.

Then Gideon came to Jordan and went over it with his three hundred, overcome with weariness and in need of food.


rate difficulty: And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be as the place of Topheth, defiled, all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of the heavens, and have poured out drink-offerings unto othergods.

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


rate difficulty: And straightway he constrained his disciples to enter into the boat, and to go before him unto the other side to Bethsaida, while he himself sendeth the multitude away.

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


rate difficulty: even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, wherewith to overlay the walls of the houses;

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


simplify: And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son.

And the salvation of that day was changed to sorrow for all the people: for it was said to the people, The king is in bitter grief for his son.


rate difficulty: And Elijah took the child down from his room into the house and gave him to his mother and said to her, See, your son is living.

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


simplify: And there came a fear on all: and they glorified God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God hath visited his people.

And fear came on all, and they gave praise to God, saying, A great prophet is among us: and, God has given thought to his people.


simplify: According to all that I show thee, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the furniture thereof, even so shall ye make it.

Make the House and everything in it from the designs which I will give you.


simplify: Be diligent in these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy progress may be manifest unto all.

Have a care for these things; give yourself to them with all your heart, so that all may see how you go forward.


simplify: Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

Blessed the man whom the Lord will never regard as sinful!’


simplify: And he changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.

So changing his behaviour before them, he made it seem as if he was off his head, hammering on the doors of the town, and letting the water from his mouth go down his chin.


rate difficulty: And so I say to you, She will have forgiveness for her sins which are great in number, because of her great love: but he who has small need of forgiveness gives little love.

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


rate difficulty: So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.

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


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches;

This is the word of the Lord: Let not the wise man take pride in his wisdom, or the strong man in his strength, or the man of wealth in his wealth:


simplify: He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.

He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches.


rate difficulty: On sons of Asshur she hath doted, Governors and prefects, Neighbouring ones--clothed in perfection, Horsemen, riding on horses, Desirable young men all of them.

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


simplify: and this to them <FI>is<Fi> the covenant from Me, when I may take away their sins.'

And they will see the fulfillment of my covenant, when I have taken away their sins.’


rate difficulty: And his master saw that the Lord was with him, making everything he did go well.


simplify: The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.

The work of the upright gives life: the increase of the evil-doer is a cause of sin.


rate difficulty: A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

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


rate difficulty: And she gave the child the name of Ichabod, saying, The glory has gone from Israel: because the ark of God was taken and because of her father-in-law and her husband.


rate difficulty: Then the prophet took up the body of the man of God and put it on the ass and took it back; and he came to the town to put the body to rest with weeping.


rate difficulty: For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.

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


rate difficulty: For then I will give the people a clean language, so that they may all make prayer to the Lord and be his servants with one mind.


simplify: Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvellous works among all nations.

Make clear his glory to the nations, and his wonders to all the peoples.


rate difficulty: he that doeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. To this end was the Son of God manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

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


simplify: And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father’s house.

And the king said, Do as he has said and make an attack on him there, and put his body into the earth; so that you may take away from me and from my family the blood of one put to death by Joab without cause.


simplify: And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.

When the Lamb broke the second seal, I heard the second Creature crying — ‘Come.’


rate difficulty: And he spake unto them this simile, saying,

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


simplify: The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.

The heaven is high and the earth is deep, and the hearts of kings may not be searched out.


rate difficulty: Whatever your lips have said, see that you do it; for you gave your word freely to the Lord your God.


rate difficulty: Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding.

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


simplify: And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein, and sanctified them.

And Moses took the holy oil and put it on the House and on all the things in it, to make them holy.


rate difficulty: And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.


rate difficulty: And Micaiah saith, `Lo, thou dost see in that day, that thou dost enter into the innermost chamber to be hidden.'

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


rate difficulty: Going on a little further, he threw himself on his face in prayer. “My Father,” he said, “if it is possible, let me be spared this cup; only, not as I will, but as you will.”

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


rate difficulty: These are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.

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


rate difficulty: And he commanded them saying, This is the thing which ye shall do: a third part of you, that come in on the sabbath, shall be keepers of the watch of the king's house;

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


rate difficulty: and saith unto me, Lo, I am making thee fruitful, and have multiplied thee, and given thee for an assembly of peoples, and given this land to thy seed after thee, a possession age-during.

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


simplify: At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.

And at Tehaphnehes the day will become dark, when the yoke of Egypt is broken there, and the pride of her power comes to an end: as for her, she will be covered with a cloud, and her daughters will be taken away prisoners.


simplify: For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened.

for they had not understood about the loaves, their minds being slow to learn.


simplify: Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, His wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,

Keep in mind the great works which he has done; his wonders, and the decisions of his mouth;


simplify: Yea, he loveth the people; All his saints are in thy hand: And they sat down at thy feet; Every oneshall receive of thy words.

All his holy ones are at his hand; they go at his feet; they are lifted up on his wings.


rate difficulty: Being, however, unable to get him near to Jesus, owing to the crowd, they removed the roofing above Jesus; and, when they had made an opening, they let down the mat on which the paralyzed man was lying.

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


rate difficulty: Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

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


rate difficulty: Against him roar do young lions, They have given forth their voice, And make his land become a desolation, His cities have been burnt without inhabitant.

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


rate difficulty: Beware of those ‘dogs’! Beware of those mischievous workers! Beware of the men who mutilate themselves!

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


rate difficulty: Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

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


simplify: In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.


simplify: And Saul’s servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be the king’s son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?

And Saul's servants said these things to David. And David said, Does it seem to you a small thing to be the king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, of no great name?


simplify: This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: he shall be brought unto the priest:

This is the law of the leper on the day when he is made clean: he is to be taken to the priest;


simplify: they gave him to drink vinegar mixed with gall, and having tasted, he would not drink.

they gave him some wine to drink which had been mixed with gall; but after tasting it, Jesus refused to drink it.


simplify: thou shalt die in peace; and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings that were before thee, so shall they make a burning for thee; and they shall lament thee, saying, Ah Lord! for I have spoken the word, saith Jehovah.

You will come to your end in peace; and such burnings as they made for your fathers, the earlier kings before you, will be made for you; and they will be weeping for you and saying, Ah lord! for I have said the word, says the Lord.


simplify: wherefore also in another <FI>place<Fi> he saith, Thou shalt not give Thy kind One to see corruption,

And, therefore, in another Psalm it is said —  ‘You will not give up the Holy One to undergo corruption.’


simplify: And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.

Now the years of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five.


simplify: and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and whatsoever shall be done with them: therein shall they serve.

And the hangings for the open space round the House and the altar, and the curtain for its doorway, with the cords and all the things used for them; whatever is necessary for these, they are to do.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make settings of gold,

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


rate difficulty: And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with them:

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


simplify: Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.

Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for fifty-two years; his mother's name was Jechiliah of Jerusalem.


simplify: And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.

And I sent them in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries: I was their judge, rewarding them for their way and their acts.


simplify: I give thanks to my God--more than you all with tongues speaking--

Thank God, I use the gift of ‘tongues’ more than any of you.


simplify: and he that regarded not the word of Jehovah left his servants and his cattle in the field.

And he who gave no attention to the word of the Lord, kept his servants and his cattle in the field.


simplify: His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

His heart is as strong as a stone, hard as the lower crushing-stone.


rate difficulty: For mine eyes are upon all their ways; they are not concealed from my face, neither is their iniquity hidden from before mine eyes.

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


simplify: And he said unto them that stood by, Take from him the pound, and give it to him that hath ten pounds.

Take away from him the ten pounds,’ he said to those standing by, ‘and give them to the one who has the hundred.’


rate difficulty: And Jonathan said to his young servant who had his arms, Come, let us go over to the armies of these men who have no circumcision: it may be that the Lord will give us help, for there is no limit to his power; the Lord is able to give salvation by a great army or by a small band.

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


simplify: Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places.


rate difficulty: Then the servant said, Peace be with you: have no fear: your God, even the God of your father, has put wealth in your bags for you: I had your money. Then he let Simeon come out to them.


rate difficulty: And when they had been a long while without taking food, Paul then standing up in the midst of them said, Ye ought, O men, to have hearkened to me, and not have made sail from Crete and have gained this disaster and loss.

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


simplify: The foreigners shall submit themselves unto me: As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me.

Men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority: from the time when my name comes to their ears, they will be ruled by me.


rate difficulty: To whom therefore shall I liken the men of this generation, and to whom are they like?


rate difficulty: This evil people, that refuse to hear my words, that walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is profitable for nothing.

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


rate difficulty: At the front of the length <FI>is<Fi> a hundred cubits <FI>at<Fi> the north opening, and the breadth fifty cubits.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses gaveinheritance unto the half-tribe of Manasseh: and it was for the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass afterwards that he went through [the country] city by city, and village by village, preaching and announcing the glad tidings of the kingdom ofGod; and the twelve [were] with him,

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


simplify: Notwithstanding the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.

But still the heat of the Lord's wrath was not turned back from Judah, because of all Manasseh had done in moving him to wrath.


rate difficulty: if an <FI>unknown<Fi> tongue any one do speak, by two, or at the most, by three, and in turn, and let one interpret;

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


rate difficulty: The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chambers without, was five cubits, as also what was left free along the building of the side-chambers that pertained to the house.

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


rate difficulty: And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: For in his seeing his children, The work of My hand, in his midst, They sanctify My name, And have sanctified the Holy One of Jacob, And the God of Israel they declare fearful.


rate difficulty: As far as the good news is in question, they are cut off from God on account of you, but as far as the selection is in question, they are loved on account of the fathers.

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


rate difficulty: and all the women whose heart hath lifted them up in wisdom, have spun the goats' <FI>hair<Fi> .


rate difficulty: and, owing to the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.


rate difficulty: Out of the part of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon; for the portion of the children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had inheritance in the midst of their inheritance.


simplify: and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ;

but holding the truth in a spirit of love, we will grow into complete union with him who is our head — Christ himself.


rate difficulty: And in the place where it was said to them — “You are not my people”, they will be called sons of the living God.’

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


simplify: And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.

Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old at the time of his death in Mount Hor.


simplify: Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years.


simplify: Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.

And let your face be turned to where Jerusalem is shut in, with your arm uncovered, and be a prophet against it.


simplify: And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth–lehem–judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.

And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem-judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and were there for some time.


rate difficulty: Nevertheless Haman refrained himself, and went home; and he sent and fetched his friends and Zeresh his wife.

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


simplify: Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.

And he would not let him, but said to him, Go to your house, to your friends, and give them news of the great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you.


simplify: I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.

I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers; then was I in his eyes as one to whom good chance had come.


rate difficulty: Therefore Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shethar-boznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, who are beyond the river, be ye far from thence:

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


rate difficulty: And she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:

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


simplify: But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.

But praise be to God, who puts the same care for you into the heart of Titus.


rate difficulty: Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

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


simplify: and evening having come, his disciples came to him, saying, `The place is desolate, and the hour hath now past, let away the multitudes that, having gone to the villages, they may buy to themselves food.'

In the evening the disciples came up to him, and said: “This is a lonely spot, and the day is now far advanced; send the crowds away so that they can to the villages, and buy themselves food.”


simplify: And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods;

Then the people in answer said, Never will we give up the Lord to be the servants of other gods;


simplify: Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:

And the Lord said, You had pity on the vine, for which you did no work and for the growth of which you were not responsible; which came up in a night and came to an end in a night;


simplify: And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

And Solomon had four thousand boxed-off spaces for horses for his carriages, and twelve thousand horsemen.


rate difficulty: Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die.

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


simplify: And David danced before Jehovah with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.

And David, clothed in a linen ephod, was dancing before the Lord with all his strength.


rate difficulty: I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

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


simplify: Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

Give no belief to false words: because there will first be a falling away from the faith, and the revelation of the man of sin, the son of destruction,


rate difficulty: But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.

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


simplify: But he charged them, and commanded them to tell this to no man;

But he gave them special orders, not to say this to any man;


rate difficulty: The portion of Jacob is not like them; for it is he that hath formed all things: and [Israel] is the rod of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.

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


simplify: And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:

All other things living and moving in the water, in the sea or in the rivers, are a disgusting thing to you;


rate difficulty: And the king saith to her, `What--to thee?' and she saith, `Truly a widow woman <FI>am<Fi> I, and my husband dieth,

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


rate difficulty: And the land which was waste will be farmed, in place of being a waste in the eyes of everyone who went by.

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


simplify: Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it.


rate difficulty: `And it hath been, in his hearing the words of this oath, and he hath blessed himself in his heart, saying, I have peace, though in the stubbornness of my heart I go on, in order to end the fulness with the thirst.

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


simplify: and we indeed righteously, for things worthy of what we did we receive back, but this one did nothing out of place;'

And we justly so, for we are only reaping our deserts, but this man has not done anything wrong.


simplify: In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;


simplify: For I have set my face upon this city for evil, and not for good, saith Jehovah: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

For my face is turned to this town for evil and not for good, says the Lord: it will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will have it burned with fire.


simplify: Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.


simplify: And in that day shall ye say, Praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.

And in that day you will say, Give praise to the Lord, let his name be honoured, give word of his doings among the peoples, say that his name is lifted up.


simplify: And into whatsoever city or village ye shall enter, search out who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go forth.

And into whatever town or small place you go, make search there for someone who is respected, and make his house your resting-place till you go away.


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

So their blood will be on the head of Joab, and on the head of his seed for ever; but for David and his seed and his family and the seat of his kingdom, there will be peace for ever from the Lord.


simplify: Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins for their clothing.


rate difficulty: Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:

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


rate difficulty: And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.

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


simplify: But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy.

But while they were sailing he went to sleep: and a storm of wind came down on the sea, and the boat became full of water and they were in danger.


rate difficulty: When your right hand was stretched out, the mouth of the earth was open for them.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass after the plague, that the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,

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


rate difficulty: In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.


simplify: And every lodge was one reed long, and one reed broad; and the space between the lodges was five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed.

And the watchmen's rooms were one rod long and one rod wide; and the space between the rooms was five cubits; the doorstep of the doorway, by the covered way of the doorway inside, was one rod.


rate difficulty: And Leah again conceived, and bore Jacob a sixth son;

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


rate difficulty: I gave you your place with the winged one; I put you on the mountain of God; you went up and down among the stones of fire.


rate difficulty: Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:


simplify: All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were an hundred thousand and eight thousand and an hundred, throughout their armies. And they shall go forward in the third rank.

The number of all the armies of Ephraim was a hundred and eight thousand, one hundred. They go forward third.


simplify: and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety--God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!

Yes, and confessedly wonderful are the deep truths of our religion; for —  ‘He was revealed in our nature, Pronounced righteous in spirit, Seen by angels, Proclaimed among the Gentiles, Believed on in the world, Taken up into glory.’


rate difficulty: And it came about that while Peter was going through all parts of the country he came to the saints who were living at Lydda.

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


simplify: And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven.


simplify: but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;

on the contrary, first to those at Damascus and Jerusalem, and then through the whole of Judea, and to the Gentiles as well, I began to preach repentance and conversion to God, and a life befitting that repentance.


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

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


simplify: and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the nations to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify, and the third day he will rise again.'

and give him up to the Gentiles for them to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify; and on the third day he will rise.”


rate difficulty: Blessed is that bondman whom his lord [on] coming shall find doing thus;

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


rate difficulty: And My holy name I make known in the midst of My people Israel, And I pollute not My holy name any more, And known have the nations that I, Jehovah, the Holy One, <FI>am<Fi> in Israel.

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


rate difficulty: I have spoken unto thee in thine ease, Thou hast said, `I do not hearken,' This <FI>is<Fi> thy way from thy youth, For thou hast not hearkened to My voice.

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


rate difficulty: Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;

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


rate difficulty: Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.

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


rate difficulty: But do not take the measure of the space outside the house; because it has been given to the nations: and the holy town will be under their feet for forty-two months.


simplify: And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto him, and said, This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed:

When it grew late, his disciples came up to him, and said: “This is a lonely spot, and it is already late.


simplify: And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.

And Hiram sent the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold.


rate difficulty: for in my jealousy, in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Verily in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions, and they were with him.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass that I will do unto you as I thought to do unto them.

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


rate difficulty: and God both the Lord did raise, and us will raise up through His power.

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


simplify: Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these, that bringeth out their host by number; he calleth them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and for that he is strong in power, not one is lacking.

Let your eyes be lifted up on high, and see: who has made these? He who sends out their numbered army: who has knowledge of all their names: by whose great strength, because he is strong in power, all of them are in their places.


rate difficulty: And Ezra blessed Jehovah, the greatGod; and all the people answered, Amen, Amen! with lifting up of their hands; and they bowed their heads, and worshipped Jehovah with their faces to the ground.

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


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

So the children went in and took the land, and you overcame before them the people of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them up into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them whatever it was their pleasure to do.


rate difficulty: And said to them, Go back with much wealth to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver and gold and brass and iron, and with a very great store of clothing; give your brothers a part of the goods taken in the war.

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


simplify: Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.


rate difficulty: And this is the hope which he gave you, even eternal life.


rate difficulty: The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

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


rate difficulty: then thy heart be lifted up, and thou forget Jehovah thy God, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

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


rate difficulty: And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, and the gleaning of thy harvest thou shalt not gather.

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


simplify: But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly.

But if you want anything more, it will have to be settled in the regular Assembly.


rate difficulty: And Moses said to Joshua, Choose us men, and go out, fight with Amalek; to-morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff ofGod in my hand.

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


simplify: Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moresheth–gath: the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.

For this cause give a parting offering to Moresheth-gath: the daughter of Achzib will be a deceit to the king of Israel.


simplify: `Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom;

Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten bridesmaids who took their lamps and went out to meet the groom.


rate difficulty: and I have been more vile than this, and have been low in mine eyes, and with the handmaids whom thou hast spoken of, with them I am honoured.'

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


rate difficulty: The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.


rate difficulty: sons of Shephatiah, sons of Hattil, sons of Pochereth of Zebaim, sons of Amon.

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


simplify: In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.

In that day there will be a great weeping in Jerusalem, like the weeping of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddon.


simplify: But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord’s brother.

But of the other Apostles I saw only James, the Lord's brother.


rate difficulty: What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;

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


rate difficulty: And David fled from Naioth by Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what is mine iniquity, and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeks my life?

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


rate difficulty: This was said in reply to the charge that he had a foul spirit in him.


rate difficulty: And I said unto them, What is the high place whither ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.

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


simplify: Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.

And this was done by all the rulers and the people who had taken part in the agreement, and every one let his man-servant and his servant-girl go free, not to be used as servants any longer; they did so, and let them go.


simplify: And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab which was at Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark.

And Uzzah went by the side of the ark, while Ahio went before it.


simplify: Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Hast thou appealed unto Cesar? unto Cesar shalt thou go.

Then Festus, having had a discussion with the Jews, made answer, You have said, Let my cause come before Caesar; to Caesar you will go.


simplify: After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, another piece. After him repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against his chamber.

After him Hananiah, the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun, the sixth son of Zalaph, were making good another part. After him Meshullam, the son of Berechiah, made good the wall opposite his room.


simplify: And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.

And when the ark went forward Moses said, Come up, O Lord, and let the armies of those who are against you be broken, and let your haters go in flight before you.


simplify: Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.

Because he had frequently been prisoned in chains and iron bands, and the chains had been parted and the bands broken by him: and no man was strong enough to make him quiet.


simplify: Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife.

About the woman, then — at the resurrection, whose wife is she to be, all seven brothers having had her as their wife?”


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: If the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and in sight be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague seven days:

But if the mark on his skin is white, and does not seem to go deeper than the skin, and the hair on it is not turned white, then the priest will keep him shut up for seven days;


rate difficulty: Then in the audience of all the people he said unto his disciples,

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


rate difficulty: And Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth,

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


rate difficulty: And why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

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


simplify: (according as it hath been written--`For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,')

scripture says — ‘For your sake we are being killed all the day long, We are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.’


simplify: An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

An uncontrolled man is only looking for trouble, so a cruel servant will be sent against him.


rate difficulty: and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is ten baths, even a homer (for ten baths are a homer);

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


simplify: And we have more firm the prophetic word, to which we do well giving heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till day may dawn, and a morning star may arise--in your hearts;

And still stronger is the assurance that we have in the teaching of the prophets; to which you will do well to pay attention (as if it were a lamp shining in a gloomy place), until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.


rate difficulty: Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee.

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


simplify: and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.

And all the Arabah on the far side of Jordan to the east, as far as the sea of the Arabah under the slopes of Pisgah.


simplify: For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God take away life, but deviseth means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him.

For death comes to us all, and we are like water drained out on the earth, which it is not possible to take up again; and God will not take away the life of the man whose purpose is that he who has been sent away may not be completely cut off from him.


rate difficulty: Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.

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


rate difficulty: `But woe to you, the Pharisees, because ye tithe the mint, and the rue, and every herb, and ye pass by the judgment, and the love of God; these things it behoveth to do, and those not to be neglecting.

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


rate difficulty: See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.

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


simplify: `Ye, therefore, hear ye the simile of the sower:

Listen, then, yourselves to the parable of the sower.


simplify: This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate thereon day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

Let this book of the law be ever on your lips and in your thoughts day and night, so that you may keep with care everything in it; then a blessing will be on all your way, and you will do well.


simplify: And the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son,

And the sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eleadah his son, and Tahath his son,


rate difficulty: Overflow thy land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish: there is no more restraint.

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


simplify: And the way of peace have they not known:

And of the way of peace they have no knowledge:


rate difficulty: Then the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said unto him, I have given unto thy master’s son all that pertained to Saul and to all his house.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore Jehovah Elohim sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

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


simplify: And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and slew him with his own spear.

And he made an attack on an Egyptian, a tall man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a stick, and pulling the spear out of the hands of the Egyptian, put him to death with that same spear.


rate difficulty: Like a thorn which goes up into the hand of a man overcome by drink, so is a wise saying in the mouth of a foolish man.


simplify: And the Lord said unto Moses, Is the Lord’s hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.

And the Lord said to Moses, Has the Lord's hand become short? Now you will see if my word comes true for you or not.


rate difficulty: AndDavidmade him houses in the city of David; and he prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.

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


rate difficulty: And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river-side; and she saw the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it.


simplify: And David said unto Achish, If now I have found favor in thine eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?

Then David said to Achish, If now I have grace in your eyes, let me have a place in one of the smaller towns of your land, to be my living-place; for it is not right for your servant to be living with you in the king's town.


simplify: Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah?

And I said to the angel who was talking to me, Where are they taking the ephah?


rate difficulty: after he had smitten Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth [and] at Edrei.

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


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

But take care that this power of yours does not give cause for trouble to the feeble.


simplify: and having called, they were asking if Simon, who is surnamed Peter, doth lodge here?

and called out and asked if the Simon, who was also known as Peter, was lodging there.


rate difficulty: At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.


simplify: Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Do not let anyone defraud you of the reality by affecting delight in so-called ‘humility’ and angel-worship. Such a person busies themselves with their visions, and without reason are rendered conceited by their merely human intellect.


simplify: So Rab–shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

So the Rab-shakeh went back, and when he got there the king of Assyria was making war against Libnah, for it had come to his ears that he had gone away from Lachish.


rate difficulty: Her young ones it hath hardened without her, In vain <FI>is<Fi> her labour without fear.

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


simplify: but declared both to them of Damascus first, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judæa, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

But I went about, first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, preaching a change of heart, so that they, being turned to God, might give, in their works, the fruits of a changed heart.


simplify: And the day was a preparation, and sabbath was approaching,

It was the Preparation day, and just before the Sabbath began.


simplify: Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.

Then I made protests to the chiefs, and said, Why has the house of God been given up? And I got them together and put them in their places.


simplify: Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


rate difficulty: So is it with the tongue. Small as it is, it is a great boaster. Think how tiny a spark may set the largest forest ablaze!

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


rate difficulty: And Micaiah saith, `Jehovah liveth; surely that which Jehovah saith unto me--it I speak.'

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


simplify: And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:

Not after, but before. And it was as a sign of this that he received the rite of circumcision — to show the righteousness due to the faith of an uncircumcised man — in order that he might be the father of all who have faith in God even when uncircumcised, so that they also may be regarded by God as righteous;


simplify: And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, The men of Jabesh-gilead were they that buried Saul.

And the men of Judah came there, and with the holy oil made David king over the people of Judah. And word came to David that it was the men of Jabesh-gilead who put Saul's body in its last resting-place.


simplify: And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

And Jotham went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body into the earth in the town of David; and Ahaz his son became king in his place.


rate difficulty: Why shouldest thou be as a man affrighted, as a mighty man that cannot save? Yet thou, O Jehovah, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.

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


simplify: I charge thee, before God, who is making all things alive, and of Christ Jesus, who did testify before Pontius Pilate the right profession,

I beg you, as in the sight of God, the source of all life, and of Christ Jesus who before Pontius Pilate made the great profession of faith —


rate difficulty: And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in that which is to come.

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


rate difficulty: And they got ready the things for Joseph before he came in the middle of the day: for word was given to them that they were to have a meal there.

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


simplify: He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.

He is to keep himself from wine and strong drink, and take no mixed wine or strong drink or any drink made from grapes, or any grapes, green or dry.


simplify: 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.

Then the Levite, the husband of the dead woman, said in answer, I came to Gibeah in the land of Benjamin, I and my servant-wife, for the purpose of stopping there for the night.


rate difficulty: But I say to you, It will be better for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judging, than for you.

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


simplify: Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

Do you forbid adultery, and yet commit adultery? Do you loathe idols, and yet plunder temples?


rate difficulty: As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.

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


rate difficulty: A witness of Belial scorneth judgment, and the mouth of the wicked swalloweth down iniquity.

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


simplify: And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.

and I also heard a voice saying to me — ‘Stand up, Peter, kill something and eat.’


simplify: I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.


simplify: Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?

Have I not the right to do as seems good to me in my house? or is your eye evil, because I am good?


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Moses,


simplify: So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.

And will not give to any of them the flesh of his children which will be his food because he has no other; in the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.


simplify: For I do not wish to see you now by the way; for I hope to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.

For it is not my desire to see you now, on my way; because it is my hope to be with you for some time, if that is the Lord's pleasure.


simplify: And when thou hast stayed three days, then thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.

And on the third day it will be specially noted, and you will go to the place where you took cover when the other business was in hand, waiting by the hill over there.


simplify: Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:

Again, you have heard that our ancestors were told — ‘Do not break your oaths, keep your vows to the Lord.’


simplify: `Beware! --ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens,

Beware of despising one of these little ones, for in heaven, I tell you, their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.


simplify: But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the Lord did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.

But have come back, and have taken food and water in this place where he said you were to take no food or water; your dead body will not be put to rest with your fathers.


rate difficulty: and Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,

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


simplify: Have ye not asked wayfaring men? And do ye not know their evidences,

Have you not put the question to the travellers, and do you not take note of their experience?


simplify: And in those days men shall seek death, and shall in no wise find it; and they shall desire to die, and death fleeth from them.

And in those days men will be hoping for death, and it will not come to them; and they will have a great desire for death, and death will go in flight from them.