rate difficulty: Jetur, Naphish, and Kedmah: those are the sons of Ishmael.

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rate difficulty: Cursed is he by whom the blind are turned out of the way. And let all the people say, So be it.

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


simplify: And Elijah said, As Jehovah of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself unto him to-day.

And Elijah said, By the life of the Lord of armies, whose servant I am, I will certainly let him see me today.


rate difficulty: But she had taken them up to the roof, and secreted them under the stalks of flax, which she had laid out on the roof.

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


simplify: And now, O Lord God, thou art that God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:

And now, O Lord God, you are God and your words are true and you have said you will give your servant this good thing;


simplify: Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty with his fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the king said, Come down quickly.

Then the king sent another captain of fifty with his fifty men; and he said to Elijah, O man of God, the king says, Come down quickly.


simplify: Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest.

A discussion arose among the disciples as to which of them was the greatest;


simplify: Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

Judah has been acting falsely, and a disgusting thing has been done in Jerusalem; for Judah has made unclean the holy place of the Lord which is dear to him, and has taken as his wife the daughter of a strange god.


simplify: Then, indeed, the assemblies throughout all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria, had peace, being built up, and, going on in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

And so it came about that the church, throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria, enjoyed peace and became firmly established; and, ordering its life by respect for the Lord and the help of the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.


rate difficulty: And another of his disciples said to him, `Sir, permit me first to depart and to bury my father;'

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simplify: that ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of Jehovah’s passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.

Then you will say, This is the offering of the Lord's Passover; for he went over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he sent death on the Egyptians, and kept our families safe. And the people gave worship with bent heads.


rate difficulty: that ye may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses turneth back unto Jehovah, and saith, `Oh this people hath sinned a great sin, that they make to themselves a god of gold;

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


simplify: How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

How long am I to put up with this evil people and their outcries against me? The words which they say against me have come to my ears.


rate difficulty: And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit the Lord hath shewed me that he shall surely die.

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


rate difficulty: And the bases of the court round about, and the bases of the gate of the court, and all the pegs of the tabernacle, and all the pegs of the court round about.

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


simplify: And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.

He took into the house of God all the things which his father had made holy and those which he himself had made holy, silver and gold and vessels.


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

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


simplify: And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one that worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened to give heed unto the things which were spoken by Paul.

And a certain woman named Lydia, a trader in purple cloth of the town of Thyatira, and a God-fearing woman, gave ear to us: whose heart the Lord made open to give attention to the things which Paul was saying.


simplify: Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

Then the devil left him alone, and angels came and helped him.


simplify: And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.

And they said to him, Where is Sarah your wife? And he said, She is in the tent.


simplify: But much more the members of the body which seem to be more infirm are necessary,

No! Those parts of the body that seem naturally the weaker are indispensable;


simplify: The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from Jehovah, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.

The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord has said about Edom: We have had word from the Lord, and a representative has been sent among the nations, saying, Up! and let us make war against her.


rate difficulty: It is simpler for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a man who has much money to come into the kingdom of God.

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


simplify: and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from whence came the Philistines), and Caphtorim.

And the Pathrusim and the Casluhim and the Caphtorim (from whom came the Philistines).


simplify: Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou also be like unto him.

Do not give to the foolish man a foolish answer, or you will be like him.


simplify: The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together, they are come up upon my neck; he hath made my strength to fail: The Lord hath delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.


rate difficulty: And Mikloth begat Shimeam. And they also dwelt with their brethren at Jerusalem, over against their brethren.

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


rate difficulty: And ye, stay not, pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities; for Jehovah yourGod has given them into your hand.

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


simplify: and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

Anyone who fails to provide for their own relations, and especially for those under their own roof, has disowned the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.


simplify: Of the children of Manasseh, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

The generations of the sons of Manasseh were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;


rate difficulty: And the sons of Issachar were Tola and Puah, Jashub and Shimron, four.

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


simplify: The hungry He did fill with good, And the rich He sent away empty,

the hungry he loads with gifts, and the rich he sends empty away.


simplify: Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

Go then, and make disciples of all the nations, giving them baptism in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit:


simplify: And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the Lord for the issue of her uncleanness.

To be offered by the priest, one for a sin-offering and one for a burned offering; and the priest will take away her sin before the Lord on account of her unclean condition.


simplify: if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

So that our spirits may not be unclothed.


simplify: And we, having finished the course, from Tyre came down to Ptolemais, and having saluted the brethren, we remained one day with them;

After we had made the run from Tyre, we landed at Ptolemais, and exchanged greetings with the followers there, and spent a day with them.


rate difficulty: And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

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


rate difficulty: And these things were some of you; but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of ourGod.

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


rate difficulty: and Jehovah hath turned back his blood on his own head, who hath fallen on two men more righteous and better than he, and slayeth them with the sword, --and my father David knew not--Abner son of Ner, head of the host of Israel, and Amasa son of Jether, head of the host of Judah;

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


rate difficulty: And I, — I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; how then art thou turned into the degenerate shoots of a strange vine unto me?

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


rate difficulty: [that] they made war with Bera the king of Sodom, and with Birsha the king of Gomorrah, Shinab the king of Admah, and Shemeber the king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.

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


simplify: And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjath–jearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah:

And the south part is from the farthest point of Kiriath-jearim, and the line goes out to the west to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah:


simplify: According to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work.

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


simplify: And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

The number of his army was forty-six thousand, five hundred.


simplify: And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city.

And he took in hand the building of the town all round, starting from the Millo; and Joab put the rest of the town in order.


rate difficulty: and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that his fathers did.

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


simplify: for this cause ought the woman to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.

For this reason it is right for the woman to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.


rate difficulty: Remember now, O Jehovah, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.


simplify: And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.

Last of all, he appeared even to me, who am, as it were, the abortion.


rate difficulty: Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

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


rate difficulty: Now therefore why make ye trial of God, that ye should put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

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


rate difficulty: And they are pairs beneath, and together they are pairs above its head unto the one ring; so is it for them both, they are for the two corners.

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


simplify: But I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

But with you I will make an agreement; and you will come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.


simplify: And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the Lord hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king.

And Samuel said to all the people, Do you see the man of the Lord's selection, how there is no other like him among all the people? And all the people with loud cries said, Long life to the king!


simplify: Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.

The person, however, who is being instructed in the message ought always to share their blessings with their teacher.


simplify: And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.

And went after the man of God, and came up with him while he was seated under an oak-tree. And he said to him, Are you the man of God who came from Judah? And he said, I am.


rate difficulty: And I will make your towns waste and send destruction on your holy places; I will take no pleasure in the smell of your sweet perfumes;

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


rate difficulty: and your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and the goings out thereof shall be southward of Kadesh-barnea; and it shall go forth to Hazar-addar, and pass along to Azmon;


simplify: Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

Since, therefore, you have cast off what is false, ‘you must every one of you speak the truth to your neighbors.’ For we are united to one another like the parts of a body.


rate difficulty: And their father gave them great gifts, of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram, because he was the first-born.

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


rate difficulty: there is not found in thee one causing his son and his daughter to pass over into fire, a user of divinations, an observer of clouds, and an enchanter, and a sorcerer,

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


simplify: Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.


rate difficulty: He who puts his faith in wealth will come to nothing; but the upright man will be full of growth like the green leaf.


rate difficulty: And when the children of Ammon saw the flight of the Aramaeans, they themselves went in flight from Abishai, his brother, and came into the town. Then Joab came back to Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And the good things of the fruits of the sun, and the good things of the growth of the moons,


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


rate difficulty: A lamentation it <FI>is<Fi> , and they have lamented her, Daughters of the nations do lament her, For Egypt, and for all her multitude, they lament her, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'

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


rate difficulty: And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king’s house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.


simplify: And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Shallum,

And Ahitub was the father of Zadok, and Zadok was the father of Shallum,


rate difficulty: But he is a Jew who is a secret one, whose circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.


simplify: Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts;

And I have sent him to you for this very purpose, so that you may have news of how we are, and so that he may give your hearts comfort;


rate difficulty: And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, a place of drought like the wilderness.


rate difficulty: is puffed up with conceit, not really knowing anything, but having a morbid craving for discussions and arguments. Such things only give rise to envy, quarreling, recriminations, base suspicions,

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.

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


simplify: When ye transgress the covenant of Jehovah your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them; then will the anger of Jehovah be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.

If the agreement of the Lord your God, which was given to you by his orders, is broken, and you become the servants of other gods and give them worship, then the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, and you will quickly be cut off from the good land which he has given you.


simplify: Who knoweth not in all these, That the hand of Jehovah hath wrought this,

Who does not see by all these that the hand of the Lord has done this?


simplify: Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.

Then Shaphan the scribe said to the king, Hilkiah the priest has given me a book; and he made a start at reading some of it to the king.


simplify: And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:

And he gave them their orders, saying, Go and take up your position secretly at the back of the town: do not go very far away, and let all of you be ready:


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel said to Moses, Truly, destruction has come on us; an evil fate has overtaken us all.


simplify: And Naarah bare him Ahuzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.

And Naarah had Ahuzzam by him, and Hepher and Temeni and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.


simplify: And the famine was sore in the land.

Now the land was in bitter need of food.


simplify: Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen of them: else ye have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.

Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.


rate difficulty: And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;

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


rate difficulty: Behold, I will answer thee, in this thou art not just; For God is greater than man.

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


rate difficulty: All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were threescore and six;

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


rate difficulty: Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for my holy name, which ye have profaned among the nations whither ye went.

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


simplify: Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.

So I will do my best to enable you, at any time after my departure, to call these truths to mind.


rate difficulty: These men have the power to close the heavens, so that ‘no rain may fall’ during the time that they are teaching; and they have power ‘to turn the streams into blood, and to smite the land with any curse,’ whenever they will.

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


rate difficulty: If he set his heart upon himself, Ifhe gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;

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


simplify: Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

For this reason, from this time forward we have knowledge of no man after the flesh: even if we have had knowledge of Christ after the flesh, we have no longer any such knowledge.


simplify: And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their food under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

And Adoni-zedek said, Seventy kings, whose thumbs and great toes had been cut off, got broken meat under my table: as I have done, so has God done to me in full. And they took him to Jerusalem, and he came to his end there.


simplify: And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.

And again Leah became with child, and she gave Jacob a sixth son.


rate difficulty: And Joshua cometh, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and they fall on them;

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


simplify: And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put it upon a bar.

All these they are to put in a leather cover, and put it on the frame.


simplify: but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him to the ark; for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: and he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her in unto him into the ark.

But the dove saw no resting-place for her foot, and came back to the ark, for the waters were still over all the earth; and he put out his hand, and took her into the ark.


rate difficulty: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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


rate difficulty: And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.


rate difficulty: And he wrote on the tables, as the first writing, the ten words which Jehovah spoke unto you on the mountain, from the midst of the fire, on the day of the assembly, and Jehovah gave them unto me.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: But we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which [is] ofGod, that we may know the things which have been freely given to us ofGod:

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


simplify: And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.

And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee; for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.

And the Lord said to Samuel, Give ear to the voice of the people and what they say to you: they have not been turned away from you, but they have been turned away from me, not desiring me to be king over them.


simplify: Therefore speak I to them in parables; because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them.


rate difficulty: I made for me gardens and paradises, and I planted in them trees of every fruit.

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


simplify: On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their hosts: and the prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.

On the west side will be the flag of the children of Ephraim, with Elishama, the son of Ammihud, as their chief.


simplify: And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.

Now there was a young man living in Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah and a Levite, who was not a townsman of the place.


simplify: For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

For Christ sent me, not to give baptism, but to be a preacher of the good news: not with wise words, for fear that the cross of Christ might be made of no value.


rate difficulty: yea, he hath caused her to drink the water, and it hath come to pass, if she hath been defiled, and doth commit a trespass against her husband, that the waters which cause the curse have gone into her for bitter things, and her belly hath swelled, and her thigh hath fallen, and the woman hath become an execration in the midst of her people.

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


simplify: Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.


simplify: And having heard of a rising again of the dead, some, indeed, were mocking, but others said, `We will hear thee again concerning this;'

On hearing of a resurrection of the dead, some began jeering, but others said that they wanted to hear what he had to say about that another time.


rate difficulty: My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou heapest up mine iniquity.

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


rate difficulty: All people will give way before you: for the Lord your God will put the fear of you on all the land through which you go, as he has said.


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.

And the Lord said to Aaron, You will have no heritage in their land, or any part among them; I am your part and your heritage among the children of Israel.


simplify: And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

And about the ninth hour Jesus gave a loud cry, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is, My God, my God, why are you turned away from me?


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

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


simplify: And Saul’s uncle said unto him and to his servant, Whither went ye? And he said, To seek the asses; and when we saw that they were not found, we came to Samuel.

And Saul's father's brother said to him and his servant, Where have you been? And he said, Searching for the asses: and when we saw no sign of them, we came to Samuel.


rate difficulty: willing to be teachers of law, not understanding either the things they say, nor concerning what they asseverate,

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


rate difficulty: And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother unto her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

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


rate difficulty: ye did condemn--ye did murder the righteous one, he doth not resist you.

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


rate difficulty: and having cast him outside of the vineyard, they killed <FI>him<Fi> ; what, then, shall the owner of the vineyard do to them?


rate difficulty: For he overcame the Jews in public discussion, making clear from the holy Writings that the Christ was Jesus.

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


rate difficulty: And the sin of these young men was very great before the Lord; for they gave no honour to the Lord's offerings.


simplify: If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

If a man sees a young virgin, who has not given her word to be married to anyone, and he takes her by force and has connection with her, and discovery is made of it;


rate difficulty: But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me; they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

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


simplify: To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:


simplify: Saying, Go ye into the village over against you; in the which at your entering ye shall find a colt tied, whereon yet never man sat: loose him, and bring him hither.

“Go to the village facing us,”he said, “and, when you get there, you will find a foal tethered, which no one has yet ridden; untie it and lead it here.


simplify: Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

Take twelve men from the people, a man for every tribe,


simplify: And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house:

and a person on the house-top must not go down, or go in to get anything out of their house:


simplify: And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.

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


rate difficulty: to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all those calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place--both theirs and ours:

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


rate difficulty: For you, friends, began to follow the example of the churches of God in Judea which are in union with Jesus Christ; you, in your turn, suffering at the hands of your fellow citizens, in the same way as those churches did at the hands of of their people —

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


simplify: (The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)

May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times greater in number than you are, and give you his blessing as he has said!


rate difficulty: All the nails used for the House and the open space round it were of brass.

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


simplify: When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

A newly married man will not have to go out with the army or undertake any business, but may be free for one year, living in his house for the comfort of his wife.


rate difficulty: and doth put on him the coat, and doth gird him with the girdle, and doth clothe him with the upper robe, and doth put on him the ephod, and doth gird him with the girdle of the ephod, and doth bind <FI>it<Fi> to him with it,

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


simplify: And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing.


simplify: Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word.

But those who had gone in flight went everywhere preaching the word.


simplify: And he said unto them, What counsel give ye, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke that thy father did put upon us lighter?

And he said to them, What is your opinion? What answer are we to give to this people who have said to me, Make less the weight of the yoke which your father put on us?


simplify: And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

And when the men who were sent by John had gone away, he said to the people, about John, What did you go out into the waste land to see? a tall stem moving in the wind?


rate difficulty: And the king said, Fetch me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.

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


simplify: Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and caused him to ride through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honor.

Then Haman took the robes and the horse, and dressing Mordecai in the robes, he made him go on horseback through the streets of the town, crying out before him, So let it be done to the man whom the king has delight in honouring.


simplify: And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.

And his mother said, Let the curse be on me, my son: only do as I say, and go and get them for me.


simplify: Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words.

Who has given knowledge of it from the first, so that we may be certain of it? and from the start, so that we may say, His word is true? There is no one who gives news, or says anything, or who gives ear to your words.


simplify: Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.

Then Darius the king gave an order and a search was made in the house of the records, where the things of value were stored up in Babylon.


simplify: One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.

The law and the rule are to be the same for you and for those from other lands living with you.


rate difficulty: As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it.

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


rate difficulty: Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even unto heaven.

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


rate difficulty: Yea, come in have many peoples, and mighty nations, To seek Jehovah of Hosts in Jerusalem, And to appease the face of Jehovah.

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


simplify: These were the courses of the doorkeepers; of the sons of the Korahites, and of the sons of Merari.

These were the divisions of door-keepers, of the sons of the Korahites and of the sons of Merari.


simplify: Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the Lord? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.

Then King Zedekiah sent and got him out: and the king, questioning him secretly in his house, said, Is there any word from the Lord? And Jeremiah said, There is. Then he said, You will be given up into the hands of the king of Babylon.


rate difficulty: For burned as a fire hath wickedness, Brier and thorn it devoureth, And it kindleth in thickets of the forest, And they lift themselves up, an exaltation of smoke!

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


rate difficulty: And the king saith to me (and the queen is sitting near him), `How long is thy journey? and when dost thou return?' and it is good before the king, and he sendeth me away, and I set to him a time.

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


simplify: and the scribes who <FI>are<Fi> from Jerusalem having come down, said--`He hath Beelzeboul,' and--`By the ruler of the demons he doth cast out the demons.'

The teachers of the law, who had come down from Jerusalem, said: “He has Beelzebul in him! He he drives the demons out by the help of their chief.”


rate difficulty: Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: Hosah had thirteen sons and brothers.

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


rate difficulty: and her brother saith--her mother also--`Let the young person abide with us a week or ten days, afterwards doth she go.'

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


simplify: Jehovah alone did lead him, And there was no foreign god with him.

So the Lord only was his guide, no other god was with him.


rate difficulty: (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)

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


rate difficulty: Or again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net which was cast into the sea, and caught fish of all kinds.

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


simplify: And thou shalt till the land for him, thou, and thy sons, and thy servants; and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master’s son may have bread to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master’s son shall eat bread alway at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

And you and your sons and your servants are to take care of the land for him, and get in the fruit of it, so that your master's son may have food: but Mephibosheth, your master's son, will have a place at my table at all times. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.


simplify: By the breath of God they perish, And by the blast of his anger are they consumed.

By the breath of God destruction takes them, and by the wind of his wrath they are cut off.


simplify: Thy two breasts are like two fawns That are twins of a roe.

Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth.


rate difficulty: For so the Lord said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

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


rate difficulty: and will make an offering by fire unto Jehovah, a burnt-offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a freewill-offering, or in your set feasts, to make a sweet savor unto Jehovah, of the herd, or of the flock;

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


rate difficulty: As I live, saith the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;

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


rate difficulty: Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.

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


simplify: And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:

And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron, Let no man make himself unclean for the dead among his people;


rate difficulty: and this was done thrice, and again was the vessel received up to the heaven.

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


simplify: and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.

Now these things happened as warnings to us, to teach us not to long for evil things as our forefathers longed.


simplify: They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves


simplify: How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! Yea, to get understanding is rather to be chosen than silver.

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


simplify: And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.

And answering him, she said, O my brother, do not put shame on me; it is not right for such a thing to be done in Israel: do not this evil thing.


simplify: To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.

Who then seems to you to be my equal? says the Holy One.


rate difficulty: Give diligence to come shortly unto me:

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


rate difficulty: `Execute the vengeance of the sons of Israel against the Midianites--afterwards thou art gathered unto thy people.'

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


simplify: Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

Without natural love, bitter haters, saying evil of others, violent and uncontrolled, hating all good,


rate difficulty: yea, they send and take Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and give him unto Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, to carry him home, and he dwelleth in the midst of the people.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in.

Will make a circle round the king, every man being armed; and whoever comes inside your lines is to be put to death; keep with the king, when he goes out and when he comes in.


simplify: I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?

You say you have a design and strength for war, but these are only words: now to whom are you looking for support, that you have gone against my authority?


simplify: Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, which they hallow unto me, and that they profane not my holy name: I am Jehovah.

Give orders to Aaron and to his sons to keep themselves separate from the holy things of the children of Israel which they give to me, and not to make my holy name common: I am the Lord,


rate difficulty: He that hears you hears me; and he that rejects you rejects me; and he that rejects me rejects him that sent me.


simplify: Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; Why then are ye become altogether vain?

Truly, you have all seen it yourselves; why then have you become completely foolish?


simplify: And Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,

And Rephah was his son, and Resheph; his son was Telah, and his son was Tahan;


simplify: See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

Take great care, then, how you live — not unwisely but wisely,


simplify: Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.

Only you may put to death animals, such as the gazelle or the roe, for your food in any of your towns, at the desire of your soul, in keeping with the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may take of it.


simplify: `But I have against thee a few things: That thou dost suffer the woman Jezebel, who is calling herself a prophetess, to teach, and to lead astray, my servants to commit whoredom, and idol-sacrifices to eat;

Yet I have this against you — You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who declares that she is a Prophetess, and misleads my servants by her teaching, until they commit licentious acts and eat idol-offerings.


simplify: And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord.

And Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer, went to King Jehoshaphat and said to him, Is it right for you to go to the help of evil-doers, loving the haters of the Lord? because of this, the wrath of the Lord has come on you.


simplify: The children of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites:

The sons of Gad by their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites:


simplify: They say unto him, Cesar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Cesar the things which are Cesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.

They say to him, Caesar's. Then he said to them, Give to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to God the things which are God's.


simplify: And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.

But, when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the Treasurer saw no more of him; for he continued his journey with a joyful heart.


rate difficulty: The fifth Shephatiah, by Abital; the sixth Ithream, by Eglah his wife.

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


rate difficulty: Because John had said to him, It is not right for you to have her.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto him, `Go, descend, then thou hast come up, thou, and Aaron with thee; and the priests and the people do not break through, to come up unto Jehovah, lest He break forth upon them.'

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


rate difficulty: Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

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


rate difficulty: Lord, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see: let them see ... yes, your haters will be burned up in the fire.


rate difficulty: And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

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


rate difficulty: And he said, Blessed be thou of the Lord, my daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.

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


simplify: Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.

Then Sihon came out against us with all his people, to make an attack on us at Jahaz.


rate difficulty: and Jattir and its suburbs, and Eshtemoa and its suburbs,


simplify: And the east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the north border, unto the east sea shall ye measure. This is the east side.

And the east side will be from Hazar-enon, which is between Hauran and Damascus; and between Gilead and the land of Israel the Jordan will be the limit, to the east sea, to Tamar. This is the east side.


simplify: And he knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, because of the noise of his roaring.

And he sent destruction on their widows and made waste their towns; and the land and everything in it became waste because of the loud sound of his voice.


simplify: And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou didst utter a curse, and didst also speak it in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be my son of Jehovah.

And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver which were taken from you, about which you took an oath and said in my hearing, I have given this silver to the Lord from my hand for myself, to make a pictured image and a metal image: see, I have the silver, for I took it: so now I will give it back to you. And his mother said, May the blessing of the Lord be on my son.


rate difficulty: So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the Lord have spoken it.

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


simplify: And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Entreat now the favor of Jehovah thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God entreated Jehovah, and the king’s hand was restored him again, and became as it was before.

Then the king made answer and said to the man of God, Make a prayer now for the grace of the Lord your God, and for me, that my hand may be made well. And in answer to the prayer of the man of God, the king's hand was made well again, as it was before.


simplify: Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.

while they stand at a distance, horrified at her torture, and cry — ‘Alas! Alas! Great city! Mighty city of Babylon! In a single hour your judgment fell.


simplify: He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that followeth after vain persons is void of understanding.

He who does work on his land will not be short of bread; but he who goes after foolish men is without sense.


simplify: And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.

And the king, hearing the words of the law, took his robe in his hands, violently parting it as a sign of his grief.


simplify: Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men of whom I know not whence they are?

Am I to take my bread and my wine and the meat I have got ready for my wool-cutters and give it to men coming from I have no idea where?


rate difficulty: For what have I [to do] with judging those outside also? ye, do not ye judge them that are within?

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


simplify: And in the fourth watch of the night he came unto them, walking upon the sea.

And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea.


simplify: These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,

And these are unclean to you among things which go low down on the earth; the weasel and the mouse and the great lizard, and animals of that sort;


rate difficulty: But king Solomon loved many foreign women, besides the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, Hittites;

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


rate difficulty: And the children of the captivity held the passover upon the fourteenth of the first month.

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


simplify: The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness.

The writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, after he had been ill, and had got better from his disease.


rate difficulty: And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils.

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


rate difficulty: and if indeed the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it; and if it be not worthy, let your peace turn back to you.

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


simplify: Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me;

Their bitter words have come to your ears, O Lord, and all their designs against me;


rate difficulty: And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and Adoniram was over the levy.

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


simplify: And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

And Solomon's horses came out of Egypt; the king's traders got them from Kue at a price.


simplify: And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.

Now after a time the stream became dry, because there was no rain in the land.


simplify: And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;

By taking as her lover another man, and keeps it secret so that her husband has no knowledge of it, and there is no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act;


simplify: So Hilkiah, and they whom the kinghad commanded, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they spake to her to that effect.

So Hilkiah, and those whom the king sent, went to Huldah the woman prophet, the wife of Shallum, the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, the keeper of the robes (now she was living in Jerusalem, in the second part of the town); and they had talk with her about this thing.


simplify: Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day.

Son of man, put down in writing this very day: The king of Babylon let loose the weight of his attack against Jerusalem on this very day.


simplify: And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

And so they may get themselves free from the net of the Evil One, being made the prisoners of the Lord's servant, for the purpose of God.


simplify: 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.

And time went on, and after two years, his inside falling out because of the disease, he came to his death in cruel pain. And his people made no burning for him like the burning made for his fathers.


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

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


rate difficulty: Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not recorded in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the words of Ahijah the prophet of Shiloh, and in the visions of Iddo the seer about Jeroboam, the son of Nebat?

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


rate difficulty: And of the sons of Harim, Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,


simplify: And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.

And the men of Israel and of Judah got up, and gave a cry, and went after the Philistines as far as Gath and the town doors of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines were falling down by the road from Shaaraim all the way to Gath and Ekron.


simplify: And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

But God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the boy and Hagar his mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to you, because it is from Isaac that your seed will take its name.


simplify: and when they were come over against Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia; and the Spirit of Jesus suffered them not;

And having come to Mysia, they made an attempt to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not let them;


rate difficulty: Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?

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


rate difficulty: And they shall come against thee with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples; they shall set themselves against thee with buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will commit the judgment unto them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses said to all the meeting of the children of Israel, This is the order which the Lord has given:


simplify: And the woman said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat:

And the woman said, We may take of the fruit of the trees in the garden:


simplify: and they shall answer, Because they forsook Jehovah their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath Jehovah brought all this evil upon them.

And their answer will be, Because they were turned away from the Lord their God, who took their fathers out of the land of Egypt; they took for themselves other gods and gave them worship and became their servants: that is why the Lord has sent all this evil on them.


simplify: The increase of his house shall depart; His goodsshall flow away in the day of his wrath.

The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.


simplify: But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go shew these things unto James, and to the brethren. And he departed, and went into another place.

Peter signed to them with his hand to be silent, and then told them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison, adding: “Tell James and the others all this.” Then he left the house, and went away to another place.


simplify: And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.

And he made ornaments of apples; and two lines of apples all round over the network, covering the crowns of the pillars, the two crowns in the same way.


rate difficulty: the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Salmai,

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rate difficulty: And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

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simplify: Say ye of the righteous, that it shall be well with him; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.


simplify: But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.

But their minds were slow to learn. Indeed, to this very day, at the public reading of the old covenant, the same veil remains ; only for those who are in union with Christ does it pass away.


rate difficulty: There is no remembrance of the former generations; neither shall there be any remembrance of the latter generations that are to come, among those that shall come after.

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rate difficulty: Why are you lifted up in pride on account of your valleys, your flowing valley, O daughter ever turning away? who puts her faith in her wealth, saying, Who will come against me?

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rate difficulty: And as Lydda was nigh unto Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men unto him, entreating him, Delay not to come on unto us.

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


rate difficulty: They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.


rate difficulty: For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

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


simplify: because they said, `He hath an unclean spirit.'

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


rate difficulty: Of Heman; the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth.

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


rate difficulty: And they that heard it said, Then who can be saved?

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


rate difficulty: And his father went down to the woman, and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.


rate difficulty: `And of the possession of the city ye give five thousand of breadth, and of length five and twenty thousand, over-against the heave-offering of the holy <FI>portion<Fi> : to all the house of Israel it is.

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


simplify: Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. And she besought him that he would cast forth the demon out of her daughter.

Now the woman was a Greek, a Syro-phoenician by birth: and she made a request to him that he would send the evil spirit out of her daughter.


simplify: Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin,

Since, then, Christ suffered in body, arm yourselves with the same resolve as he; for he who has suffered in body has ceased to sin,


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

And they were wandering in every direction because there was no keeper: and they became food for all the beasts of the field.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass when Moses entered into the tent, the pillar of cloud descended, and stood at the entrance of the tent, and [Jehovah] talked with Moses.

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


simplify: The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?

The sinners in Zion are full of fear; the haters of God are shaking with wonder. Who among us may keep his place before the burning fire? who among us may see the eternal burnings?


simplify: And the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah, when I stretch forth my hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.

And the Egyptians will see that I am the Lord, when my hand is stretched out over Egypt, and I take the children of Israel out from among them.


simplify: Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous; Destroy not his resting-place:

Do not keep a secret watch, O evil-doer, against the fields of the upright man, or send destruction on his resting-place:


rate difficulty: Then the king’s servants, which were in the king’s gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king’s commandment?

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto Moses and unto Aaron, `Take to you the fulness of your hands <FI>of<Fi> soot of a furnace, and Moses hath sprinkled it towards the heavens, before the eyes of Pharaoh,

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


simplify: But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.

But they gave no attention to his words and went to the top of the mountain, though Moses and the ark of the Lord's agreement did not go out of the tent-circle.


simplify: And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord.

Now the king, and all Israel with him, were making offerings before the Lord.


rate difficulty: And Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.

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


simplify: Unto the rest of the Levites, the sons of Merari, were given, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its suburbs, Tabor with its suburbs;

To the rest of the Levites, the sons of Merari, were given, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its outskirts, Tabor with its outskirts;


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

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


rate difficulty: how thatGod was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their offences; and putting in us the word of that reconciliation.


simplify: Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

To the woman he said, Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your master.


simplify: Even from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baal–gad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.

From Mount Halak, which goes up to Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon: and all their kings he overcame and put to death.


rate difficulty: let no man beguile you in any wise: for it will not be, except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,

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rate difficulty: And the captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they took every man his men, those that were to come in on the sabbath, with those that were to go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.

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


rate difficulty: Jesus went into the Temple Courts and began to drive out those who were selling,


simplify: And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and Seraiah begat Joab, the father of the valley of Charashim; for they were craftsmen.

And Meonothai was the father of Ophrah; and Seraiah was the father of Joab, the father of Ge-harashim; they were expert workmen.


simplify: that thy kindness may be in secret, and thy Father who is seeing in secret Himself shall reward thee manifestly.

so that your charity may be secret; and your Father, who sees what is in secret, will reward you.


simplify: And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from beyond Jordan.

He was followed by large crowds from Galilee, the district of the Ten Towns, Jerusalem, Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.


simplify: And they of the circumcision that believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Spirit.

And the Jews of the faith, who had come with Peter, were full of wonder, because the Holy Spirit was given to the Gentiles,


simplify: If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

If her father will not give her to him on any account, he will have to give the regular payment for virgins.


simplify: And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:

And the face of the earth will be covered with them, so that you will not be able to see the earth: and they will be the destruction of everything which up to now has not been damaged, everything which was not crushed by the ice-storm, and every tree still living in your fields.


simplify: Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.

Now after a number of years I came to give help and offerings to my nation:


simplify: And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him.

So, when Peter entered the city, Cornelius met him, and, throwing himself at Peter’s feet, bowed to the ground.


rate difficulty: And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying, What do you see? And I said, I see a boiling pot, and its face is from the north.

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


rate difficulty: Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

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


rate difficulty: And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:

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simplify: He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.

the hungry he loads with gifts, and the rich he sends empty away.


simplify: Thou didst also take thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest for thee images of men, and didst play the harlot with them;

And you took the fair jewels, my silver and gold which I had given to you, and made for yourself male images, acting like a loose woman with them;


simplify: And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.

Go on living with us, and the country will be open to you; do trade and get property there.


rate difficulty: The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,


simplify: a land which Jehovah thy God careth for: the eyes of Jehovah thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.

A land cared for by the Lord your God: the eyes of the Lord your God are on it at all times from one end of the year to the other.


simplify: and out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war; and five men of them that saw the king’s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe, the captain of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the city.

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


rate difficulty: And I send unto you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying: Turn back, I pray you, each from his evil way, and amend your doings, yea, ye do not walk after other gods, to serve them, and dwell ye on the ground that I have given to you and to your fathers; and ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto Me.

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


simplify: Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou wast wroth, and we sinned: in them have we been of long time; and shall we be saved?

Will you not have mercy on him who takes pleasure in doing righteousness, even on those who keep in mind your ways? Truly you were angry, and we went on doing evil, and sinning against you in the past.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt take the breast of Aaron’s ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave-offering before Jehovah: and it shall be thy portion.

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


simplify: For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

For though your people, O Israel, are as the sand of the sea, only a small number will come back: for the destruction is fixed, overflowing in righteousness.


rate difficulty: And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.


rate difficulty: He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.


simplify: Consider what I say; for the Lord shall give thee understanding in all things.

Give thought to what I say; for the Lord will give you wisdom in all things.


rate difficulty: And the second choir went in the opposite direction upon the wall, and I after them, and the half of the people, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even to the broad wall;

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


simplify: Therefore shalt thou give a parting gift to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing unto the kings of Israel.

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


simplify: Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.

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


simplify: And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.

All the nails used for the House and the open space round it were of brass.


simplify: Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.


simplify: And thou, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and say thou, A sword, a sword is drawn, for the slaughter it is furbished, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning;

And you, son of man, say as a prophet, This is what the Lord has said about the children of Ammon and about their shame: Say, A sword, even a sword let loose, polished for death, to make it shining so that it may be like a flame:


rate difficulty: And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves; because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

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


simplify: The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all an hundred thirty and nine.

The children of the door-keepers: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, a hundred and thirty-nine.


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.


simplify: And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.

And the king said, Say nothing more about these things. I say, Let there be a division of the land between Ziba and you.


simplify: Now therefore, O Jehovah our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art Jehovah, even thou only.

But now, O Lord our God, give us salvation from his hand, so that it may be clear to all the kingdoms of the earth that you, and you only, are the Lord.


rate difficulty: from mount Hor ye mark out to go in to Hamath, and the outgoings of the border have been to Zedad;

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


rate difficulty: Behold,God will not cast off a perfect man, neither will he take evil-doers by the hand.

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


rate difficulty: Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.

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


simplify: And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.

And as we had not seen the sun or stars for a long time, and a great storm was on us, all hope of salvation was gone.


rate difficulty: For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.


rate difficulty: And they also, if they continue not in their unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.

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


rate difficulty: Because thou art sent by the king, and by his seven counsellors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thyGod which is in thy hand;

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


rate difficulty: And they have been eight boards, and their sockets of silver <FI>are<Fi> sixteen sockets, two sockets under the one board, and two sockets under another board.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And the king went forth, and all the people after him, and tarried in a place that was far off.


simplify: So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.

And Jesus, being moved with pity, put his fingers on their eyes: and straight away they were able to see, and went after him.


rate difficulty: I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

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


simplify: At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of Jehovah, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.

At that time Jerusalem will be named the seat of the Lord's kingdom; and all the nations will come together to it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem: and no longer will their steps be guided by the purposes of their evil hearts.


simplify: But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.


simplify: and fearing lest on rough places we may fall, out of the stern having cast four anchors, they were wishing day to come.

Then, as they were afraid of our being driven on some rocky coast, they let go four anchors from the stern, and longed for daylight.


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

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


rate difficulty: But they said to him, Where wilt thou that we prepare [it]?

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


rate difficulty: And also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it, and let her glean, and rebuke her not.


rate difficulty: But twenty-four thousand of them had come to their death by the disease.


rate difficulty: When they had got into the boat, the wind dropped.


rate difficulty: In the manner of men I speak, because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as ye did present your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness--to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to the righteousness--t sanctification,

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


rate difficulty: And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray unto Jehovah for it; for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.

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


rate difficulty: And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

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


rate difficulty: And that you may keep in mind all my orders and do them and be holy to your God.


rate difficulty: I went down to the bases of the mountains; as for the earth, her walls were about me for ever: but you have taken up my life from the underworld, O Lord my God.


rate difficulty: O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will set thy stones in fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

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


rate difficulty: and that no one should be able to buy or sell save he that had the mark, the name of the beast, or the number of its name.

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


simplify: Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations.

To the children of the east I have given her for a heritage, as well as the children of Ammon, so that there may be no memory of her among the nations:


rate difficulty: and stedfast is the Lord, who shall establish you, and shall guard <FI>you<Fi> from the evil;

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


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

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 12 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,

And you will be certain that I am the Lord by my opening the resting-places of your dead and making you come up out of your resting-places, O my people.


rate difficulty: But now complete the doing also; that as there was the readiness to will, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.


simplify: Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.

Then Jesus, answering, said to her, O woman, great is your faith: let your desire be done. And her daughter was made well from that hour.


simplify: lo, I make of the synagogue of the Adversary those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but do lie; lo, I will make them that they may come and bow before thy feet, and may know that I loved thee.

Listen, I give some of the Congregation of Satan, the people who declare that they are God's people, though they are not, but are lying — I will make them ‘come and bow down at your feet,’ and they will learn that I loved you.


rate difficulty: and shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads; they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

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


rate difficulty: and let ours also learn to apply themselves to good works for necessary wants, that they may not be unfruitful.

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


rate difficulty: Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother’s children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.

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


rate difficulty: The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

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


rate difficulty: Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

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


rate difficulty: `And if not, from fear of <FI>this<Fi> thing we have done it, saying, Hereafter your sons do speak to ours sons, saying, What to you and to Jehovah God of Israel?

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


rate difficulty: but in case I should be delayed, I want you to know what your conduct ought to be in the Household of God, which is the church of the living God — the pillar and stay of the truth.

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


rate difficulty: Make yourself clean from the dust; up! and take the seat of your power, O Jerusalem: the bands of your neck are loose, O prisoned daughter of Zion.

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


rate difficulty: And the king of Israel called all the elders of the land and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this [man] seeks mischief; for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.

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


simplify: And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:

unlike Moses, who covered his face with a veil, to prevent the Israelites from gazing at the disappearance of what was passing away.


simplify: Then they understood that he did not say to take heed of the leaven of the bread, but of the teaching, of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Then they understood that he had told them to be on their guard, not against the leaven of bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.


rate difficulty: And they were bringing unto him little children, that he should touch them: and the disciples rebuked them.


simplify: The men of Beth-azmaveth, forty and two.


simplify: And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.

And it will come about that everyone who is still living, of all those nations who came against Jerusalem, will go up from year to year to give worship to the King, the Lord of armies, and to keep the feast of tents.


simplify: `And ye--ye are those who have remained with me in my temptations,

You are the men who have stood by me in my trials;


rate difficulty: And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.

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


rate difficulty: For perhaps he was therefore parted from thee for a season, that thou shouldest have him for ever;

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


rate difficulty: Righteous lips are the delight of kings; And they love him that speaketh right.


simplify: and the salutations in the market-places, and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

and to be greeted in the markets with respect, and to be called ‘Rabbi’ for everybody.


rate difficulty: And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months. And she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.


rate difficulty: `And it hath been, if thou dost not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God to observe to do all His commands, and His statutes, which I am commanding thee to-day, that all these revilings have come upon thee, and overtaken thee:

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


simplify: He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.

He took its measure on the four sides: and it had a wall all round, five hundred long and five hundred wide, separating what was holy from what was common.


rate difficulty: But year by year you and all your house are to take a meal of it before the Lord, in the place of his selection.

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


rate difficulty: In this manner shall Aaron come into the sanctuary: with a young bullock for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering.


rate difficulty: Then David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.


simplify: Be not afraid of sudden fear, Neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh:

Have no fear of sudden danger, or of the storm which will come on evil-doers:


simplify: Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up an ensign for the peoples.

Go through, go through the doors; make ready the way of the people; let the highway be lifted up; let the stones be taken away; let a flag be lifted up over the peoples.


simplify: And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house,

I never shrank from telling you anything that could be helpful to you, or from teaching you both in public and in private.


simplify: And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

So Hezekiah went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body into the higher part of the resting-places of the sons of David: and all Judah and the people of Jerusalem gave him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son became king in his place.


simplify: Now if we put the horses’ bridles into their mouths that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also.

Now if we put bits of iron into horses' mouths so that they may be guided by us, we have complete control of their bodies.


simplify: I baptized you in water; but he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

I have given you baptism with water, but he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit.


simplify: And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.

Then the five men who had gone to make a search through the land, went in and took the pictured image and the ephod and the family gods and the metal image; and the priest was by the doorway with the six hundred armed men.


simplify: Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

Because you kept in mind the story of my endurance, I will keep you in the hour of trial that is about to come on the whole world, the hour that will test all who are living on earth.


simplify: And Remeth, and En–gannim, and En–haddah, and Beth–pazzez;

And Remeth and En-gannim and En-haddah and Beth-pazzez;


simplify: And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

and said to them: “Scripture says ‘My house will be called a house of prayer’; but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”


rate difficulty: Then your south side shall be from the wilderness of Zin alongside of Edom, and your southern border shall be from the end of the salt sea eastward;

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


simplify: and when ye may hear of wars and reports of wars, be not troubled, for these behove to be, but the end <FI>is<Fi> not yet;

“And, when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed; such things must occur; but the end is not yet.


rate difficulty: And Jesus answering said unto him, `Simon, I have something to say to thee;' and he saith, `Teacher, say on.'

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


simplify: The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan.

The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth and Haziel and Haran, three; these were the heads of the families of Ladan.


simplify: Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him,

However, Saul (who is the same as Paul), full of the Holy Spirit, fixed his eyes on him and said:


simplify: And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.

as well as father of the circumcised — to those who are not only circumcised, but who also follow our father Abraham in that faith which he had while still uncircumcised.


rate difficulty: Goods for removal make for thee, O inhabitant, daughter of Egypt, For Noph becometh a desolation, And hath been burnt up, without inhabitant.

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