rate difficulty: And the people said unto Joshua, Jehovah ourGod will we serve, and to his voice will we hearken.

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rate difficulty: And by his side the men of Jericho were building. And after them, Zaccur, the son of Imri.

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

They seized on these words and discussed with one another what this ‘rising from the dead’ meant.


simplify: And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

And those who belong to Jesus, the Christ, have already crucified their earthly nature, with its passions and its cravings.


rate difficulty: Truly you had no word of them, no knowledge of them; no news of them in the past had come to your ears; because I saw how false was your behaviour, and that your heart was turned against me from your earliest days.

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rate difficulty: Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even unto the greatest, came near,

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simplify: So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

So pulling Jeremiah up with the cords they got him out of the water-hole: and Jeremiah was kept in the place of the armed watchmen.


rate difficulty: Is it possible for the skin of the Ethiopian to be changed, or the markings on the leopard? Then it might be possible for you to do good, who have been trained to do evil.


rate difficulty: And the people rejoice because of their offering willingly, for with a perfect heart they have offered willingly to Jehovah; and also David the king hath rejoiced--great joy.

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simplify: And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

And he is the head of the body, the church: the starting point of all things, the first to come again from the dead; so that in all things he might have the chief place.


rate difficulty: She put her hand to the tent-pin, And her right hand to the workmen's hammer; And she smote Sisera, she struck through his head, Shattered and pierced through his temples.


simplify: And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Pallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.

And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi;


simplify: At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drove the Jews from Elath; and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there, unto this day.

At that time the king of Edom got Elath back for Edom, and sent the Jews out of Elath; and the Edomites came back to Elath where they are living to this day.


simplify: But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Judah.


simplify: She hath done what she could; she hath anointed my body beforehand for the burying.

She has done what she was able: she has put oil on my body to make it ready for its last resting-place.


simplify: And I do all things for the gospel’s sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.

And I do all things for the cause of the good news, so that I may have a part in it.


rate difficulty: `Ye do not try Jehovah your God as ye tried in Massah;

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simplify: And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.

And if a man has sex relations with a beast, let him be put to death, and let the beast be put to destruction.


simplify: These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

These are the families of the sons of Noah, in the order of their generations and their nations: from these came all the nations of the earth after the great flow of waters.


rate difficulty: And as he is sitting at the mount of the Olives, over-against the temple, Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, were questioning him by himself,

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rate difficulty: When he went out about five, he found some others standing there, and said to them ‘Why have you been standing here all day long, doing nothing?’

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


simplify: and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.

And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.


simplify: Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the Lord: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the Lord.

Ho, ho! go in flight from the land of the north, says the Lord: for I have sent you far and wide to the four winds of heaven, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: For if Abraham got righteousness by works, he has reason for pride; but not before God.

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rate difficulty: For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him; I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on backslidingly in the way of his heart.

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


rate difficulty: the three and twentieth to Delaiah, the four and twentieth to Maaziah.

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simplify: wherein was written, It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel; for which cause thou art building the wall: and thou wouldest be their king, according to these words.

And in it these words were recorded: It is said among the nations, and Geshem says so, that you and the Jews are hoping to make yourselves free from the king's authority; and that this is why you are building the wall: and they say that it is your purpose to be their king;


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Samuel, How long will you go on sorrowing for Saul, seeing that I have put him from his place as king over Israel? Take oil in your vessel and go; I will send you to Jesse, the Beth-lehemite: for I have got a king for myself among his sons.


rate difficulty: And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of Jehovah; come down, fetch it up to you.

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rate difficulty: the mystery which [has been] hidden from ages and from generations, but has now been made manifest to his saints;

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rate difficulty: Their dead bodies will lie in the streets of the great city, which is mystically spoken of as ‘Sodom’ and ‘Egypt,’ where their Master was crucified.


simplify: Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as Jehovah commanded Moses and the children of Israel, that came forth out of the land of Egypt.

Let all the people of twenty years old and over be numbered, as the Lord has given orders to Moses and the children of Israel who have come out of Egypt.


simplify: Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.

However, some of Asher and Manasseh and Zebulun put away their pride and came to Jerusalem.


simplify: All this, said David, the Lord made me understand in writing by his hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern.

All this, said David, the design for all these things, has been made dear to me in writing by the hand of the Lord.


rate difficulty: And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is an unclean thing: it shall not be accepted.

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


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?

And the Lord said to Moses, How long will you go against my orders and my laws?


rate difficulty: and shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter’s vessel, that cannot be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, till there be no place to bury.

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simplify: For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many.

For with fire and sword will the Lord come, judging all the earth, and his sword will be on all flesh: and great numbers will be put to death by him.


rate difficulty: You blind ones: which is greater, the offering, or the altar which makes the offering holy?


rate difficulty: There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

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rate difficulty: And he saith to me, `Thou mayest not seal the words of the prophecy of this scroll, because the time is nigh;

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Brothers, keep us in mind in your prayers.


rate difficulty: And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;

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simplify: Only in Jehovah, it is said of me, is righteousness and strength; even to him shall men come; and all they that were incensed against him shall be put to shame.

Only in the Lord will Jacob overcome and be strong: together all those who were angry with him will be put to shame and come to destruction.


simplify: Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.

I could wish that you would tolerate a little folly in me! But indeed you do tolerate me.


simplify: A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, And a rod for the back of fools.

A whip for the horse, a mouth-bit for the ass, and a rod for the back of the foolish.


rate difficulty: subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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simplify: And I put a ring upon thy nose, and ear-rings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy head.

And I put a ring in your nose and ear-rings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.


simplify: and Azor begat Sadok, and Sadok begat Achim, and Achim begat Eliud,

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


rate difficulty: And at the top of the base there was a round vessel, half a cubit high;


rate difficulty: And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that Jehovah had given him in commandment unto them;

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simplify: So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

And he bore me away in a trance to a lonely place, and I saw a woman seated on a scarlet Beast, which was covered with blasphemous names; it had seven heads and ten horns.


rate difficulty: (And Jehoahaz besought Jehovah, and Jehovah hearkened to him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them.

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


simplify: And Adonijah feared because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

And Adonijah himself was full of fear because of Solomon; and he got up and went to the altar, and put his hands on its horns.


rate difficulty: And now, let me tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trodden under foot;

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


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

After satisfying their hunger, they further lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea.


simplify: Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,

Now the beasts taken, in addition to what the fighting-men took for themselves, were six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,


rate difficulty: Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.


rate difficulty: And it hath been, as I watched over them to pluck up, And to break down, and to throw down, And to destroy, and to afflict; So do I watch over them to build, and to plant, An affirmation of Jehovah.

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


simplify: And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.

And I will give it into the hands of men from strange lands who will take it by force, and to the evil-doers of the earth to have for themselves; and they will make it unholy.


simplify: And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.

And they kept watch on him, and sent out secret representatives, who were acting the part of good men, in order that they might get something from his words, on account of which they might give him up to the government and into the power of the ruler.


simplify: And when the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy things, because it is his bread.

And when the sun has gone down he will be clean; and after that he may take part in the holy food, because it is his bread.


simplify: With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:

Give your service heartily and cheerfully, as working for the Master and not for people;


simplify: The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

The word about the Beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and grief, the land of the she-lion and the voice of the lion, of the snake and the burning winged snake, they take their wealth on the backs of young asses, and their stores on camels, to a people in whom is no profit.


simplify: saying to them, `Men, I perceive that with hurt, and much damage, not only of the lading and of the ship, but also of our lives--the voyage is about to be;'

“My friends,” he said, “I see that this voyage will be attended with injury and much damage, not only to the cargo and the ship, but to our own lives also.”


rate difficulty: And they were taken over to Shechem, and put to rest in the place which Abraham got for a price in silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

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rate difficulty: Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitations; spare not: lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.

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simplify: `Happy they whose lawless acts were forgiven, and whose sins were covered;

‘Blessed are those whose wrong-doings have been forgiven and over whose sins a veil has been drawn!


rate difficulty: Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and fellow-captives, who are of note among the apostles; who were also in Christ before me.

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


simplify: Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

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


rate difficulty: and they may yet come to a sober mind, and escape from the devil's net, when captured by the Lord’s servant to do the will of God.


simplify: And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkoam: and Rekem begat Shammai.

And Shema was the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam, and Rekem was the father of Shammai.


simplify: Jehovah hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the house of Jehovah, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in the stocks and in shackles.

The Lord has made you priest in place of Jehoiada the priest, to be an overseer in the house of the Lord for every man who is off his head and is acting as a prophet, to put such men in prison and in chains.


rate difficulty: Jesus says to them, Have ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which they that builded rejected, this has become the corner-stone: this is of [the] Lord, and it is wonderful in our eyes?

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rate difficulty: And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah and send him back to Amon, the ruler of the town, and to Joash, the king's son;

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simplify: But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

But he was full of the Holy Spirit, and looking up to heaven, he saw the glory of God and Jesus at the right hand of God.


rate difficulty: With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,

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rate difficulty: Then Hilkijah spoke and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of Jehovah. And Hilkijah gave the book to Shaphan.

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


rate difficulty: Every one that passeth among those that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give the heave-offering of Jehovah.

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simplify: And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.

They got horses for Solomon from Egypt and from every land.


rate difficulty: And Moses said to him, When I go out of the city, I will spread out my hands to Jehovah: the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail; that thou mayest know that the earth is Jehovah's.

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


simplify: Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?

For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.


rate difficulty: and Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim,

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simplify: So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

So these three men gave no more answers to Job, because he seemed to himself to be right.


rate difficulty: And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

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


simplify: Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

Why did you keep quiet among the sheep, hearing nothing but the watchers piping to the flocks?


rate difficulty: As it is not possible for the army of heaven to be numbered, or the sand of the sea measured, so will I make the seed of my servant David, and the Levites my servants.

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rate difficulty: or in enmity he hath smitten him with his hand, and he dieth; the smiter is certainly put to death; he <FI>is<Fi> a murderer; the redeemer of blood doth put the murderer to death in his coming against him.

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


rate difficulty: There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.


rate difficulty: The great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the Lord: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.

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


simplify: The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.

He who is slow in his work does not go in search of food; but the ready worker gets much wealth.


simplify: He couched, he lay down as a lion, And as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Blessed be every one that blesseth thee, And cursed be every one that curseth thee.

He took his sleep stretched out like a lion, and like a she-lion: by whom will his rest be broken? May a blessing be on everyone who gives you blessing, and a curse on everyone by whom you are cursed.


rate difficulty: and, some, indeed, were believing the things spoken, and some were not believing.

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simplify: In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

In a second, in the shutting of an eye, at the sound of the last horn: for at that sound the dead will come again, free for ever from the power of death, and we will be changed.


rate difficulty: Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for the father of a multitude of nations have I made thee.

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


simplify: But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.

And when you are taken and given up to be judged, do not be troubled about what to say: but whatever is given to you in that hour, say: because it is not you who say it, but the Holy Spirit.


simplify: And they said, The Lord hath need of him.

And they said, The Lord has need of him.


simplify: By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.

Through me chiefs have authority, and the noble ones are judging in righteousness.


simplify: And thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with thine arm 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 David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

And David took these words to heart, fearing Achish, the king of Gath.


rate difficulty: Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?


rate difficulty: and will cut him off, and his portion with the hypocrites will appoint; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

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


simplify: And having come to the house, he suffered no one to go in, except Peter, and James, and John, and the father of the child, and the mother;

When he reached the house, he did not allow anyone to go in with him, except Peter, John, and James, and the child’s father and mother.


rate difficulty: 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.

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


simplify: Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.

May the sin of this people have forgiveness, in the measure of your great mercy, as you have had mercy on them from Egypt up till now.


rate difficulty: A rich man is wise in his own eyes, And the intelligent poor searcheth him.


simplify: And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.

And you will be hated by all men because of my name: but he who is strong to the end will have salvation.


rate difficulty: And they praised God for my sake.

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


simplify: And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou say unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou speak unto them, My little finger is thicker than my father’s loins.

And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us; will you make it less? say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;


simplify: Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.

And I went to the house of Shemaiah, the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us have a meeting in the house of God, inside the Temple, and let the doors be shut: for they will come to put you to death; truly, in the night they will come to put you to death.


simplify: And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Set on the caldron, set it on, and also pour water into it:

And make a comparison for this uncontrolled people, and say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Put on the cooking-pot, put it on the fire and put water in it:


simplify: For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.

For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.


simplify: Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.

Will he be angry for ever? will he keep his wrath to the end? These things you have said, and have done evil and have had your way.


rate difficulty: And when the argument became very violent, the chief captain, fearing that Paul would be pulled in two by them, gave orders to the armed men to take him by force from among them, and take him into the army building.

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rate difficulty: and the house of Judah I pity, and have saved them by Jehovah their God, and do not save them by bow, and by sword, and by battle, by horses, and by horsemen.'

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rate difficulty: And all the small places round these towns, as far as Baalath-beer, the high place of the South. These were their living-places, and they have lists of their generations.

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rate difficulty: For the purposes of their hearts are destruction, and their lips are talking of trouble.

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


rate difficulty: And I have pity on My holy name, That the house of Israel have polluted among nations whither they have gone in.

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rate difficulty: And if ye say to me, We rely upon Jehovah ourGod: is it not he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

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


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.

The Lord has said, Let this man be recorded as having no children, a man who will not do well in all his life: for no man of his seed will do well, seated on the seat of the kingdom of David and ruling again in Judah.


simplify: The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

Its rooms, its uprights, and its covered way had the same measures, and its covered way had windows all round: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.


rate difficulty: Hast thou made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is terrible.

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


rate difficulty: And he is to go out to the altar which is before the Lord and make it free from sin; and he is to take some of the blood of the ox and the blood of the goat and put it on the horns of the altar and round it;

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


rate difficulty: Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.


simplify: And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.

And Herod, with his soldiers, treated Jesus with scorn; he mocked him by throwing a gorgeous robe around him, and then sent him back to Pilate.


simplify: He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.

He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.


simplify: The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

May the violent things done to me, and my downfall, come on Babylon, the daughter of Zion will say; and, May my blood be on the people of Chaldaea, Jerusalem will say.


rate difficulty: And I said, Lord, how long? And he said, Until the cities be wasted, without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land become an utter desolation,

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


simplify: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:

And on my men-servants and my women-servants I will send my Spirit, and they will be prophets.


simplify: Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.

Keep in mind, O my God, for my good, all I have done for this people.


rate difficulty: And their brothers who did the work of the house, eight hundred and twenty-two; and Adaiah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah,


rate difficulty: Let everything you do be done in a loving spirit.

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


simplify: The fear of Jehovah is a fountain of life, That one may depart from the snares of death.

The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, by which one may be turned from the nets of death.


rate difficulty: And all the people saw [it], and they fell on their faces and said, Jehovah, he isGod! Jehovah, he isGod!


rate difficulty: While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the beginning of the dust of the world.


simplify: And Jehovah passed by before him, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth;

And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith;


rate difficulty: The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.


simplify: These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

Six things are hated by the Lord; seven things are disgusting to him:


simplify: And Jesus said to him, `Verily I say to thee, that to-day, this night, before a cock shall crow twice, thrice thou shalt deny me.'

“I tell you,”answered Jesus, “that you yourself today — yes, this very night — before the cock crows twice, will disown me three times.”


rate difficulty: And Samuel saith, `As thy sword bereaved women--so is thy mother bereaved above women;' and Samuel heweth Agag in pieces before Jehovah in Gilgal.

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


rate difficulty: And Rabshakeh saith unto them, `Say ye, I pray you, unto Hezekiah, `Thus said the great king, the king of Asshur, What <FI>is<Fi> this confidence in which thou hast confided?

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And Josiah gave for the children of the people a heave-offering of the flocks, lambs and goats, all for the passover-offerings, for all that were present — to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's substance.

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


simplify: O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, The heritage of our fathers is nothing but deceit, even false things in which there is no profit.


rate difficulty: Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

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


simplify: Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.

Many, however, of those who had heard the apostles’ message became believers in Christ, the number of the men alone amounting to about five thousand.


rate difficulty: And he arose and took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt;


rate difficulty: In his boughs made a nest hath every fowl of the heavens, And under his branches brought forth hath every beast of the field, And in his shade dwell do all great nations.

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


simplify: and they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and both were advanced in their days.

But they had no child, Elizabeth being barren; and both of them were advanced in years.


rate difficulty: And Jesus called unto him his disciples, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat: and I would not send them away fasting, lest haply they faint on the way.

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


simplify: And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:


simplify: confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to remain in the faith, and that through many tribulations it behoveth us to enter into the reign of God,

reassuring the minds of the disciples, urging them to remain true to the faith, and showing that it is only through many troubles that we can enter the kingdom of God.


rate difficulty: that hath withdrawn his hand from the poor, that hath not received interest nor increase, hath executed mine ordinances, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.

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


simplify: Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place.

And he put questions to the men of the place, saying, Where is the loose woman who was in Enaim by the wayside? And they said, There was no such woman there.


simplify: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

But, if our lives are lived in the light, as God himself is in the light, we have communion with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.


rate difficulty: Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.

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


rate difficulty: and he cometh nigh, and kisseth him, and he smelleth the fragrance of his garments, and blesseth him, and saith, `See, the fragrance of my son <FI>is<Fi> as the fragrance of a field which Jehovah hath blessed;

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


rate difficulty: Thou hast called up, as on the day of a set feast, my terrors on every side; and in the day of Jehovah's anger there was none that escaped or remained: those that I have nursed and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, in process of time, at the end of two years, that his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.

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


simplify: The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people.

On that day, the Jews came together in their towns through all the divisions of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, for the purpose of attacking all those who were attempting evil against them: and everyone had to give way before them, for the fear of them had come on all the peoples.


rate difficulty: And I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it round about, from the appearance of his loins and upward; and from the appearance of his loins and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness round about him.


simplify: The sons of Perez: Hezron, and Hamul.


rate difficulty: what think ye? They answered and said, He is worthy of death.

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


simplify: And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a robber, with swords and staves to seize me?

And Jesus said to them, Have you come out as against a thief, with swords and sticks to take me?


rate difficulty: Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

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


simplify: Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people.

and the priest of Zeus-beyond-the-Walls, accompanied by the crowd, brought bullocks and garlands to the gates, with the intention of offering sacrifices.


rate difficulty: Under him <FI>are<Fi> sharp points of clay, He spreadeth gold on the mire.

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


simplify: Many daughters have done worthily, But thou excellest them all.

Unnumbered women have done well, but you are better than all of them.


simplify: While the king sat at his table, My spikenard sent forth its fragrance.

While the king is seated at his table, my spices send out their perfume.


rate difficulty: and he also maketh tasteful things, and bringeth to his father, and saith to his father, `Let my father arise, and eat of his son's provision, so that thy soul doth bless me.'

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Go up, ye horses, and drive furiously, ye chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Phut that handle the shield, and the Ludim that handle the bow [and] bend it.

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


simplify: By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong.


simplify: Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

And he was angry with his three friends, because they had been unable to give him an answer, and had not made Job's sin clear.


rate difficulty: I have seen the Lord standing by the altar, and He saith: `Smite the knob, and the thresholds shake, And cut them off by the head--all of them, And their posterity with a sword I do slay, Not flee to them doth the fleer, Nor escape to them doth a fugitive.

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


simplify: So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

So Jehoiakim went to rest with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.


simplify: And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering.

And Lebanon is not enough to make a fire with, or all its cattle enough for a burned offering.


simplify: And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith.

He put the coat on him, making it tight with its band, and then the robe, and over it the ephod, with its band of needlework to keep it in place.


simplify: Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

And a burning light is not put under a vessel, but on its table; so that its rays may be shining on all who are in the house.


simplify: But Paul thought not good to take with them him who withdrew from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.

But Paul was of the opinion that it was not right to take with them one who had gone away from them in Pamphylia, and had not gone on with the work.


rate difficulty: And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.

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


rate difficulty: He put to the sword twelve thousand men of Edom in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela in war, naming it Joktheel, as it is to this day.

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


rate difficulty: Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winevat?

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


rate difficulty: These were they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses.

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


simplify: And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.

And then the giver of the feast will come to you and say, Give your place to this man; and you, with shame, will have to take the lowest seat.


simplify: And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the Lord.

And when Aaron saw this, he made an altar before it, and made a public statement, saying, Tomorrow there will be a feast to the Lord.


simplify: and the God of the peace <FI>be<Fi> with you all. Amen.

May God, the giver of peace, be with you all. Amen.


simplify: And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:

And on the eighth day let him take to the priest, at the door of the Tent of meeting, two doves or two young pigeons;


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

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


simplify: And Moses fled at this saying, and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons.

And at these words, Moses went in flight to the land of Midian, and was living there for a time, and had two sons.


rate difficulty: Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the high waves of the sea;

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


simplify: And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;

And if a man does damage to his neighbour, as he has done, so let it be done to him;


simplify: So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding;

So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;


simplify: And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

Whoever does not carry their own cross, and walk in my steps, can be no disciple of mine.


simplify: And from thence passeth on along on the east to Gittah–hepher, to Ittah–kazin, and goeth out to Remmon–methoar to Neah;

And from there it goes on east to Gath-hepher, to Eth-kazin; ending at Rimmon which goes as far as Neah;


rate difficulty: Then Amnon was full of hate for her, hating her with a hate greater than his earlier love for her. And he said to her, Get up and be gone.


simplify: Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.

The wise are troubled by the ways of the cruel, and the giving of money is the destruction of the heart.


simplify: The eye which saw him shall see him no more; Neither shall his place any more behold him.

The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him.


simplify: And Mary said unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?

And Mary said to the angel, How may this be, because I have had no knowledge of a man?


simplify: Whosoever it be that eateth any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.

Whoever takes any blood for food will be cut off from his people.


simplify: But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there some that hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.

But I have some things against you, because you have with you those who keep the teaching of Balaam, by whose suggestion Balak made the children of Israel go out of the right way, taking food which was offered to false gods, and going after the desires of the flesh.


simplify: John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from him who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits that are before his throne;

John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from him who is and was and is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his high seat;


simplify: The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.

And the land, while she is without them, will keep her Sabbaths; and they will undergo the punishment of their sins, because they were turned away from my decisions and in their souls was hate for my laws.


rate difficulty: And opened have thy gates continually, By day and by night they are not shut, To bring unto thee the force of nations, Even their kings are led.

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


simplify: James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends words of love to the twelve tribes of the Jews living in all parts of the earth.


rate difficulty: Remember that thou magnify his work, Whereof men have sung.

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


simplify: And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.


rate difficulty: And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.

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


simplify: Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

All this, I tell you, will come home to the present generation.


rate difficulty: And thou, O tower of the flock, hill of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, yea, the first dominion shall come, — the kingdom to the daughter of Jerusalem.

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


simplify: According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.

Those who were numbered of them, the males from one month old and over, were eight thousand, six hundred, who were responsible for the care of the holy place.


rate difficulty: They handed him a piece of broiled fish,

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


rate difficulty: then will I distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation; and she shall be unto me as Ariel.

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


rate difficulty: Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

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


simplify: and this she was doing for many days, but Paul having been grieved, and having turned, said to the spirit, `I command thee, in the name of Jesus Christ, to come forth from her;' and it came forth the same hour.

She had been doing this for several days, when Paul, much vexed, turned and said to the spirit within her: “In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to leave her.” That very moment the spirit left her.


rate difficulty: And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that Jehovah has sent me to do all these deeds, for they are not out of my own heart:

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


simplify: Now it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before Jehovah.

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.


simplify: In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.

Wherever you may be when the horn is sounded, come here to us; our God will be fighting for us.


simplify: Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

Through all these forty years your clothing did not get old or your feet become tired.


rate difficulty: That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:

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


rate difficulty: And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.

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


rate difficulty: And they will not come near me to do the work of priests to me, or come near any of my holy things, or the things which are most holy: but their shame will be on them, and the punishment for the disgusting things which they have done.

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


simplify: And Jehovah answered and said unto his people, Behold, I will send you grain, and new wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations;

And the Lord made answer and said to his people, See, I will send you grain and wine and oil in full measure: and I will no longer let you be shamed among the nations:


rate difficulty: It was broken down--a city of emptiness, Shut hath been every house from entrance.

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


simplify: And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

And I heard a loud voice from the throne, which said — ‘See! The tent of God is set up among people. God will live among them, and they will be his Peoples, and God himself will be among them,


simplify: and through a window in a rope basket I was let down, through the wall, and fled out of his hands.

but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and so escaped his hands.


simplify: And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:

And the Lord said to Moses, Put out your hand and take it by the tail: (and he put out his hand and took a grip of it and it became a rod in his hand:)


rate difficulty: All this I have put to the test by wisdom; I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.

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


simplify: Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh.

Then the children of Ammon came together and put their army in position in Gilead. And the children of Israel came together and put their army in position in Mizpah.


rate difficulty: So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.

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


simplify: And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.

and the second took her, and died without family; and so did the third.


simplify: But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

but to those who have received the call, whether Jews or Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God!


simplify: And the rest said, Let be; let us see whether Elijah cometh to save him.

And the rest said, Let him be; let us see if Elijah will come to his help.


rate difficulty: Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, To hear the bleating of the flocks? In the divisions of Reuben there were great deliberations of heart!


simplify: Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;

For it is an act of righteousness on God's part to give trouble as their reward to those who are troubling you,


rate difficulty: What do ye at the day appointed? And at the day of Jehovah's festival?

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


simplify: And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother’s brethren, and spake with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,

Now Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, went to Shechem to his mother's family, and said to them and to all the family of his mother's father,


simplify: Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith Jehovah of hosts. Because of my house that lieth waste, while ye run every man to his own house.

You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his.


simplify: I became to the infirm as infirm, that the infirm I might gain; to all men I have become all things, that by all means I may save some.

To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people, so as at all costs to save some.


simplify: But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

For it was the man with power who had the land, and the man with an honoured name who was living in it.


rate difficulty: But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.


simplify: And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thy heart upon all that I shall show thee; for, to the intent that I may show them unto thee, art thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel.

And the man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes and give hearing with your ears, and take to heart everything I am going to let you see; for in order that I might let you see them, you have come here: and give an account of all you see to the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: Thus shall they know that I the Lord their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord God.

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


rate difficulty: Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to the Rab-shakeh, Please make use of the Aramaean language in talking to your servants, for we are used to it, and do not make use of the Jews' language in the hearing of the people on the wall.

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


simplify: for in the law of Moses it hath been written, `thou shalt not muzzle an ox treading out corn;' for the oxen doth God care?

For in the law of Moses it is said —  ‘You should not muzzle a bullock while it is treading out the grain.’  Is it the bullocks that God is thinking of?


rate difficulty: Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

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


simplify: Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

In this way love is made complete in us, so that we may be without fear on the day of judging, because as he is, so are we in this world.


rate difficulty: because of their wickedness that they have done, by provoking Me to anger, by going to make perfume, by serving other gods, that they knew not, they, ye, and your fathers.

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


rate difficulty: And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.

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


simplify: not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;

and may pay no attention to Jewish legends, or to the directions of those who turn their backs on the truth.


rate difficulty: For the way into the inmost room he made doors of olive-wood, the arch and the door supports forming a five-sided opening.

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


rate difficulty: Then I said unto them, What meaneth the high place whereunto ye go? So the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.

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


simplify: And he made a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

And he made the cover all of gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.


simplify: And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about.

Stretching from the wall of the towns a distance of a thousand cubits all round.


simplify: and I will give to thee the keys of the reign of the heavens, and whatever thou mayest bind upon the earth shall be having been bound in the heavens, and whatever thou mayest loose upon the earth shall be having been loosed in the heavens.'

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you forbid on earth will be held in heaven to be forbidden, and whatever you allow on earth will be held in heaven to be allowed.”


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said to Satan, Whence comest thou? And Satan answered Jehovah and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

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


rate difficulty: and God saith unto Abraham, `Let it not be wrong in thine eyes because of the youth, and because of thy handmaid: all that Sarah saith unto thee--hearken to her voice, for in Isaac is a seed called to thee.

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


simplify: And Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

Isaac made prayer to the Lord for his wife because she had no children; and the Lord gave ear to his prayer, and Rebekah became with child.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their hosts together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish said unto David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me in the host, thou and thy men.

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


rate difficulty: Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?

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


simplify: But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!

But is it truly possible that God may be housed with men on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place: how much less this house which I have made:


simplify: I say it not to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die together and live together.

It is not with the purpose of judging you that I say this: for I have said before that you are in our hearts for life and death together.


rate difficulty: And the woman saith unto him, `Lo, thou hast known that which Saul hath done, that he hath cut off those having familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land; and why art thou laying a snare for my soul--to put me to death?'

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And Jehovah magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and bestowed upon him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.

And the Lord made Solomon great in the eyes of all Israel, clothing him with glory and honour such as no other king in Israel had had before him.


simplify: The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying,

The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,


rate difficulty: By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come unto this city, saith Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And to the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: These things says the Son ofGod, he that has his eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet [are] like fine brass:

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


rate difficulty: And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers,

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


simplify: For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

For we all have to come before Christ to be judged; so that every one of us may get his reward for the things done in the body, good or bad.


simplify: He putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock; He overturneth the mountains by the roots.

Man puts out his hand on the hard rock, overturning mountains by the roots.


rate difficulty: And by the river, upon its bank, on the one side and on the other, shall grow all trees for food, whose leaf shall not fade, nor their fruit fail: it shall bring forth new fruit every month, for its waters issue out of the sanctuary; and the fruit thereof shall be for food, and the leaf thereof for medicine.

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


simplify: And as the sailors were seeking to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, under color as though they would lay out anchors from the foreship,

Then the sailors made attempts secretly to get away from the ship, letting down a boat as if they were about to put down hooks from the front of the ship;


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, in his being in one of the cities, that lo, a man full of leprosy, and having seen Jesus, having fallen on <FI>his<Fi> face, he besought him, saying, `Sir, if thou mayest will, thou art able to cleanse me;'

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


simplify: Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

But at that time, having no knowledge of God, you were servants to those who by right are no gods:


rate difficulty: Thy wealth and thy remnants, Thy merchandise, thy mariners, And thy pilots, strengtheners of thy breach, And the traders of thy merchandise, And all thy men of war, who <FI>are<Fi> in thee, And in all thine assembly that <FI>is<Fi> in thy midst, Fall into the heart of the seas in the day of thy fall,

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


rate difficulty: These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.


simplify: So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.

So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they got to work cutting down trees.


rate difficulty: And every daughter that possesseth an inheritance among the tribes of the children of Israel, shall be married to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every one the inheritance of his fathers,

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


rate difficulty: saying, The Son of man must be delivered up into the hands of sinners, and be crucified, and rise the third day.

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


simplify: So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

So death came to Hananiah the prophet the same year, in the seventh month.


rate difficulty: Because with your false words you have given pain to the heart of the upright man when I had not made him sad; in order to make strong the hands of the evil-doer so that he may not be turned from his evil way and get life:


simplify: And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?

Instead of saying ‘Prepare my dinner, and then make yourself ready and serve me while I am eating and drinking, and after that you will eat and drink yourself’?


simplify: And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

Ruling in the mountain of Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, as far as the limits of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, to the land of Sihon, king of Heshbon.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto me, `Again take to thee the instrument of a foolish shepherd.

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


rate difficulty: And let this fiftieth year be kept holy, and say publicly that everyone in the land is free from debt: it is the Jubilee, and every man may go back to his heritage and to his family.

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


rate difficulty: And he said to her, What is your desire? She says to him, Let my two sons be seated, the one at your right hand, and the other at your left, in your kingdom.

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


simplify: Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? And he said, Peaceably.

Then Adonijah, the son of Haggith, came to Bath-sheba, the mother of Solomon. And she said, Come you in peace? And he said, Yes, in peace.


rate difficulty: O ye inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the dove that maketh her nest over the mouth of the abyss.

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


rate difficulty: and ye have seen the breaches of the city of David, that they are many; and ye have gathered together the waters of the lower pool;

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


simplify: whom I found accused concerning questions of their law, and having no accusation worthy of death or bonds;

when I found that their charges were connected with questions of their own law, and that there was nothing alleged involving either death or imprisonment.


rate difficulty: And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

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


simplify: Surely there was not kept such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

Truly, such a Passover had not been kept in all the days of the judges of Israel or of the kings of Israel or the kings of Judah;


simplify: So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,

And Jacob went down to Egypt, and came to his end there, and so did our fathers;


simplify: Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?


simplify: Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?

Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you?


simplify: And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye a he-goat for a sin-offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without blemish, for a burnt-offering;

And say to the children of Israel: Take a he-goat for a sin-offering, and a young ox and a lamb, in their first year, without any mark on them, for a burned offering;


simplify: For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.

For by these he gives food to the peoples, and bread in full measure.


simplify: And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the store-houses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine was sore in the land of Egypt.

And everywhere on the earth they were short of food; then Joseph, opening all his store-houses, gave the people of Egypt grain for money; so great was the need of food in the land of Egypt.


simplify: and they were carried over unto Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver of the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

And they were taken over to Shechem, and put to rest in the place which Abraham got for a price in silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.


rate difficulty: And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.

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


simplify: I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

I give you orders, before God and Christ Jesus, who will be the judge of the living and the dead, and by his revelation and his kingdom;


simplify: And king Solomon sent by Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him, so that he died.

And King Solomon sent Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and he made an attack on him and put him to death.


rate difficulty: and they say, `A man, an Egyptian, hath delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also hath diligently drawn for us, and watereth the flock;'

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


rate difficulty: Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

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


rate difficulty: for he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.

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


simplify: That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:

Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:


rate difficulty: Come, and we sell him to the Ishmaelites, and our hands are not on him, for he <FI>is<Fi> our brother--our flesh;' and his brethren hearken.

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


simplify: `And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother;

If your brother or sister does wrong, go to them and convince them of their fault when you are both alone. If they listen to you, you have won them over.


rate difficulty: And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him: and when he was come near, he asked him,

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


simplify: And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the Lord, and sat before me.

Now it came about in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, that certain of the responsible men of Israel came to get directions from the Lord and were seated before me.


simplify: And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as beforetime.

Then Jonathan sent for David and gave him word of all these things. And Jonathan took David to Saul, who kept him by his side as in the past.


simplify: Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thine own name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

Shemaiah the Nehelamite sent a letter in his name to Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,


rate difficulty: If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

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


rate difficulty: But joy ye, and rejoice for ever, that I <FI>am<Fi> Creator, For, lo, I am creating Jerusalem a rejoicing, And her people a joy.

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


simplify: Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.

And the ruler is not to take the heritage of any of the people, driving them out of their property; he is to give a heritage to his sons out of the property which is his: so that my people may not be sent away from their property.


simplify: And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof:

And the Lord God sent a deep sleep on the man, and took one of the bones from his side while he was sleeping, joining up the flesh again in its place:


simplify: Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow in thy father’s house, till Shelah my son be grown up; for he said, Lest he also die, like his brethren. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.

Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Go back to your father's house and keep yourself as a widow till my son Shelah becomes a man: for he had in his mind the thought that death might come to him as it had come to his brothers. So Tamar went back to her father's house.


simplify: But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,

But when Herod was dead, an angel of the Lord came in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,


simplify: And he who did deliver him up did give them a sign, saying, `Whomsoever I will kiss, it is he: lay hold on him;'

Now the betrayer had arranged a signal with them. “The man whom I kiss,” he had said, “will be the one; arrest him.”


simplify: After these things I saw, and lo, a door opened in the heaven, and the first voice that I heard <FI>is<Fi> as of a trumpet speaking with me, saying, `Come up hither, and I will shew thee what it behoveth to come to pass after these things;'

After this, in my vision, I saw an open door in the heavens, and the first voice that I heard was like the blast of a trumpet speaking to me. It said — ‘Come up here and I will show you what must take place.’


simplify: When the sin, which they have sinned against it, is known, then the congregation shall offer a young bullock for the sin, and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation.

When the sin which they have done comes to light, then let all the people give an ox for a sin-offering, and take it before the Tent of meeting.


simplify: The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.

The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty.


simplify: So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations.

Their hands and feet are to be washed. so that they may be safe from death: this is an order to them for ever; to him and his seed from generation to generation.


simplify: For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.

One person’s faith permits of their eating food of all kinds, while another whose faith is weak eats only vegetable food.


rate difficulty: And straightway he constrained the disciples to enter into the boat, and to go before him unto the other side, till he should send the multitudes away.

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


rate difficulty: Be in debt for nothing, but to have love for one another: for he who has love for his neighbour has kept all the law.

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


rate difficulty: For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:

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


simplify: When Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before thee, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;

When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you;


rate difficulty: Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

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


simplify: He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

He took me out into a wide place; he was my saviour because he had delight in me.


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


simplify: And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.

And they made a decision to get with the silver the potter's field, as a place for the dead of other countries.


rate difficulty: And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.

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


rate difficulty: Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,

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


simplify: And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.

And when he had put it to rest, he said to his sons, When I am dead, then you are to put my body into the earth with the body of this man of God, and put me by his bones so that my bones may be kept safe with his bones.


rate difficulty: In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah reigned hath Elah son of Baasha over Israel in Tirzah, two years;

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


simplify: And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.

And they got to the end of all the men who were married to strange women by the first day of the first month.


rate difficulty: After these things I saw another angel coming down out of heaven, having great authority; and the earth was lightened with his glory.


rate difficulty: And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, was in his place before it,) and said, Am I still to go on with the fight against the children of Benjamin my brother, or am I to give it up? And the Lord said, Go on; for tomorrow I will give him into your hands.

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


rate difficulty: And when Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand about thee from morning unto even?

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


simplify: For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.


simplify: Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?

“Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins except God?”


rate difficulty: And we having gone before unto the ship, did sail to Assos, thence intending to take in Paul, for so he had arranged, intending himself to go on foot;

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


simplify: And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:

And Reu was thirty-two years old when he became the father of Serug:


simplify: Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, were seated on their seats of authority, dressed in their robes, by the doorway into Samaria; and all the prophets were acting as prophets before them.


simplify: but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

But the hairs of your head are all numbered.


rate difficulty: Jesse of David the King. David was the father of Solomon, whose mother was Uriah’s widow,

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


simplify: and Elienai, and Zillethai, and Eliel,


rate difficulty: Lo, I am giving in him a spirit, and he hath heard a report, and hath turned back unto his land, and I have caused him to fall by the sword in his land.'

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


rate difficulty: If any one sin and act unfaithfully against Jehovah, and lie to his neighbour as to an entrusted thing or a deposit or [that in which] he hath robbed or wronged his neighbour,

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


rate difficulty: And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.


rate difficulty: and princes of Pharaoh see her, and praise her unto Pharaoh, and the woman is taken <FI>to<Fi> Pharaoh's house;

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


rate difficulty: Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 10 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And he shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in woollen or in linen, or anything of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.

And the clothing, or the wool or linen material, or anything of leather in which is the disease, is to be burned: for the disease is biting into it; let it be burned in the fire.


rate difficulty: She weepeth sore in the night, And her tear <FI>is<Fi> on her cheeks, There is no comforter for her out of all her lovers, All her friends dealt treacherously by her, They have been to her for enemies.

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


simplify: They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.

They have put up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, but I had no knowledge of it; they have made images of silver and gold, so that they may be cut off.


simplify: how that he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

How he was taken up into Paradise, and words came to his ears which may not be said, and which man is not able to say.


rate difficulty: The mighty men of Babylon have ceased to fight, they are sitting in the fortresses; their might hath failed, they are become as women: they have set her dwelling places on fire; her bars are broken.

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


rate difficulty: And they were laughing at him. But he, having sent them all out, took the father of the child and her mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was.

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


rate difficulty: A man shall be commended according to his wisdom; But he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

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


simplify: Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it without the camp, afar off from the camp; and he called it, The tent of meeting. And it came to pass, that every one that sought Jehovah went out unto the tent of meeting, which was without the camp.

Now it was Moses' way to put up the Tent of meeting outside the tent-circle, at some distance away; giving it the name of The Tent of meeting. And everyone desiring to make his prayer to the Lord went to the Tent of meeting outside the tent-circle.


simplify: And every day shalt thou offer the bullock of sin-offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou makest atonement for it; and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.

Every day an ox is to be offered as a sin-offering, to take away sins: and by this offering on it, you will make the altar clean from sin; and you are to put oil on it and make it holy.


rate difficulty: And hearing this, they had baptism in the name of the Lord Jesus.


simplify: For as the lightning cometh forth from the east, and is seen even unto the west; so shall be the coming of the Son of man.

Because as in a thunderstorm the bright light coming from the east is seen even in the west; so will be the coming of the Son of man.


rate difficulty: Now, if it is proclaimed of Christ that he has been raised from the dead, how is it that some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?

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


simplify: or, Who shall descend into the abyss? (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)

Or, Who will go down into the deep? (that is, to make Christ come again from the dead:)


rate difficulty: And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

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


simplify: And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.

A deep impression was made on everyone, and many wonders and signs were done at the hands of the apostles.


simplify: then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, whereof ye are afraid, shall follow hard after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.

Then it will come about that the sword, which is the cause of your fear, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and need of food, which you are fearing, will go after you there in Egypt; and there death will come to you.


rate difficulty: For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.

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


simplify: And the feast of the unleavened food was coming nigh, that is called Passover,

The feast of the unleavened bread, known as the Passover, was near.


rate difficulty: Now the men observed diligently, and hasted to catch whether it were his mind; 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.

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


simplify: A word fitly spoken Islikeapples of gold in network of silver.

A word at the right time is like apples of gold in a network of silver.


rate difficulty: Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, and of Og the king of Bashan; and [he was] the only superintendent that was in the land.


rate difficulty: What harmony can there be between Christ and Belial? Or what can those who accept the faith have in common with those who reject it?


simplify: If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.


rate difficulty: But why lookest thou on the mote that is in the eye of thy brother, but observest not the beam that is in thine eye?

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


rate difficulty: Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.

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


simplify: And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house:

And to Apphia, our sister, and to Archippus, our brother in God's army, and to the church in your house:


simplify: Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

Masters, give your servants what is right and equal, conscious that you have a Master in heaven.


rate difficulty: And Absalom set Amasa over the host instead of Joab; which Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Jithra the Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab's mother.

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


rate difficulty: And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now Jehovah hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

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


simplify: And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, Jehovah commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren: therefore according to the commandment of Jehovah he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.

And they came before Eleazar the priest, and Joshua, the son of Nun, and before the chiefs, saying, The Lord gave orders to Moses to give us a heritage among our brothers: so in agreement with the orders of the Lord he gave them a heritage among their father's brothers.


simplify: And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also.

When someone gives one of you a blow on the cheek, offer the other cheek as well; and, when anyone takes away your cloak, do not keep back your coat either.


simplify: that also the creation itself shall be set free from the servitude of the corruption to the liberty of the glory of the children of God;

yet not without the hope that some day Nature, also, will be set free from enslavement to decay, and will attain to the freedom which will mark the glory of the children of God.


simplify: And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.

When the Lamb broke the third seal, I heard the third Creature crying — ‘Come.’ And in my vision I saw ‘a black horse.’ Its rider held scales in his hand.


simplify: And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

and ‘a stumbling-block, and a rock which will prove a hindrance.’ They stumble because they do not accept the message. This was the fate destined for them.


simplify: For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.

So it was clear to Israel and to all the people on that day that the king was not responsible for the death of Abner, the son of Ner.


simplify: Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.


simplify: And this day will the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the deed of the queen say the like unto all the king’s princes. So will there arise much contempt and wrath.

And the wives of the captains of Persia and Media, hearing what the queen has done, will say the same to all the king's captains. So there will be much shame and wrath.


simplify: Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh?

Are you so foolish? having made a start in the Spirit, will you now be made complete in the flesh?


rate difficulty: for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;'

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