rate difficulty: And Moses stretcheth out his hand towards the sea, and the sea turneth back, at the turning of the morning, to its perennial flow, and the Egyptians are fleeing at its coming, and Jehovah shaketh off the Egyptians in the midst of the sea,

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


simplify: And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.

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


simplify: Now therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.

For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.


rate difficulty: And Moses heareth the people weeping by its families, each at the opening of his tent, and the anger of Jehovah burneth exceedingly, and in the eyes of Moses <FI>it is<Fi> evil.

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


rate difficulty: And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the Lord, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the Lord remembered her.

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


rate difficulty: who bringeth forth chariot and horse, army and power — they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched as tow:

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


rate difficulty: Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon.

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


simplify: Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

Having been put to death with him in baptism, by which you came to life again with him, through faith in the working of God, who made him come back from the dead.


rate difficulty: For who hath stood in the counsel of Jehovah, And seeth and heareth His word? Who hath regarded My word, and hearkeneth?

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


simplify: For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.

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


simplify: And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

And those of Judah who are still living will again take root in the earth and give fruit.


rate difficulty: that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, `Himself took our infirmities, and the sicknesses he did bear.'

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


rate difficulty: We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.

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


rate difficulty: And from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, two towns.

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


simplify: He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.

he casts down princes from their thrones, and the humble he uplifts,


simplify: Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

In former generations it was not made known to humanity, as fully as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to the apostles and prophets among Christ’s people —


simplify: And Moses laid up the rods before Jehovah in the tent of the testimony.

And Moses put the rods before the Lord in the Tent of witness.


simplify: But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.

Jesus, however, turning around and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter. “Out of my sight, Satan!”he exclaimed. “For you look at things, not as God does, but as people do.”


rate difficulty: `And from the fig-tree learn ye the simile: when the branch may already become tender, and may put forth the leaves, ye know that nigh is the summer;


simplify: And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.

And when he saw the nose-ring and the ornaments on his sister's hands, and when she gave him word of what the man had said to her, then he went out to the man who was waiting with the camels by the water-spring.


rate difficulty: For Herod had taken John and put him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.

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


rate difficulty: It was only yesterday you came to us; why then am I to make you go up and down with us? for I have to go where I may; go back then, and take your countrymen with you, and may the Lord's mercy and good faith be with you.

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


simplify: And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.

And to give you help, take one man from every tribe, the head of his father's house.


simplify: But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.

But he, turning to Peter, said, Get out of my way, Satan: you are a danger to me because your mind is not on the things of God, but on the things of men.


rate difficulty: The beauty of young men is their strength, And the honour of old men is grey hairs.

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


rate difficulty: But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.

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


rate difficulty: And some of the Pharisees among the people said to him, Master, make your disciples be quiet.

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


simplify: And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.

But Ehud had got away while they were waiting and had gone past the stone images and got away to Seirah.


simplify: One shall say, I am Jehovah’s; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto Jehovah, and surname himself by the name of Israel.

One will say, I am the Lord's; and another will give himself the name, Jacob; another will put a mark on his hand, I am the Lord's, and another will take the name of Israel for himself.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper country came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples:

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


simplify: And they departed from Zalmonah, and pitched in Punon.

And they went on from Zalmonah, and put up their tents in Punon.


simplify: Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.

Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure.


simplify: And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister, nor of thy father’s sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.

And you may not have sex connection with your mother's sister or your father's sister, for they are his near relations: their sin will be on them.


simplify: Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he answered, Here am I.

Then Eli said, Samuel, my son. And Samuel answering said, Here am I.


rate difficulty: You are the Lord, even you only; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens with all their armies, the earth and all things in it, the seas and everything in them; and you keep them from destruction: and the armies of heaven are your worshippers.

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


simplify: A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

A time for undoing and a time for stitching; a time for keeping quiet and a time for talk;


simplify: Then said Absalom, If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go with us. And the king said unto him, Why should he go with thee?

Then Absalom said, If you will not go, then let my brother Amnon go with us. And the king said to him, Is there any reason for him to go with you?


simplify: and he carried me away to a wilderness in the Spirit, and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-coloured beast, full of names of evil-speaking, having seven heads and ten horns,

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


rate difficulty: And there was no deliverer, for it was far from Zidon, and they had nothing to do with [any] man; and it [lay] in the valley that is by Beth-rehob. And they built the city and dwelt therein.

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


rate difficulty: Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf.

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


simplify: Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.

In your mercy you went before the people whom you have made yours; guiding them in your strength to your holy place.


simplify: And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?

And Jesus said, Were there not ten men who were made clean? where are the nine?


rate difficulty: And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto Jehovah, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.

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


simplify: but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, shall be wrath and indignation,

But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath,


rate difficulty: And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

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


rate difficulty: Thou shalt not revile a deaf person, and thou shalt not put a stumbling-block before a blind one; but thou shalt fear thyGod: I am Jehovah.

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


simplify: And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judea: for thus it is written by the prophet,

And they said to him, In Beth-lehem of Judaea; for so it is said in the writings of the prophet,


simplify: For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

For God is my witness, how my love goes out to you all in the loving mercies of Christ Jesus.


simplify: And if a man have no one to redeem it, and he be waxed rich and find sufficient to redeem it;

And if he has no one to get it back for him, and later he himself gets wealth and has enough money to get it back;


simplify: Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.

It is Timothy, then, whom I hope to send, as soon as ever I can foresee how it will go with me.


simplify: for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. And when he heard him, he was much perplexed; and he heard him gladly.

For Herod was in fear of John, being conscious that he was an upright and holy man, and kept him safe. And hearing him, he was much troubled; and he gave ear to him gladly.


rate difficulty: And Jacob went on to Succoth, where he made a house for himself and put up tents for his cattle: for this reason the place was named Succoth.

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


rate difficulty: And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

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


simplify: And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.

And Jabez was honoured more than his brothers; but his mother had given him the name Jabez, saying, Because I gave birth to him with sorrow.


simplify: I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I have gotten me great wisdom above all that were before me in Jerusalem; yea, my heart hath had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

I said to my heart, See, I have become great and am increased in wisdom more than any who were before me in Jerusalem--yes, my heart has seen much wisdom and knowledge.


simplify: For I delivered unto you first of all that which also I received: that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

For I gave to you first of all what was handed down to me, how Christ underwent death for our sins, as it says in the Writings;


rate difficulty: They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.

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


simplify: Thou shalt therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command thee this day, to do them.

So keep the orders and the laws and the decisions which I give you today and do them.


simplify: But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?

But the man, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus: “And who is my neighbor?”


simplify: The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.

What the daughters of Zelophehad say is right: certainly you are to give them a heritage among their father's brothers: and let the property which would have been their father's go to them.


rate difficulty: See, here is my daughter, a virgin, and his servant-wife: I will send them out for you to take them and do with them whatever you will. But do no such thing of shame to this man.

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


rate difficulty: I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.

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


simplify: The heave-thigh and the wave-breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave-offering before Jehovah: and it shall be thine, and thy sons’ with thee, as a portion for ever; as Jehovah hath commanded.

Let them take the breast which is waved and the leg which is lifted up on high, with the fat of the burned offering, to be waved for a wave offering before the Lord; and this will be for you and for your sons with you, for a right for ever, as the Lord has given orders.


simplify: But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I forbare to come unto Corinth.

But God is my witness that it was in pity for you that I did not come to Corinth at that time.


rate difficulty: And in the morning the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


simplify: And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, `If the Son thou art of God, cast thyself down hence,

The devil next led him into Jerusalem, and, placing him on the parapet of the Temple, said: “If you are God’s Son throw yourself down from here,


simplify: And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with brass.

And make rods for the altar, of hard wood, plated with brass.


simplify: which is the first command with a promise, `That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live a long time upon the land.'

‘So that you may prosper and have a long life on earth.’


rate difficulty: Behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah’s house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women shall say, Thy familiar friends have set thee on, and have prevailed over thee: now that thy feet are sunk in the mire, they are turned away back.

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


simplify: `Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungering, and we nourished? or thirsting, and we gave to drink?

Then the righteous will answer ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you? Or thirsty, and give you a drink?


rate difficulty: Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.

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


rate difficulty: and when the sun was risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

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


rate difficulty: The men of Michmas, a hundred twenty and two.


simplify: Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens;


rate difficulty: Now while they were doing so, and I was untouched, I went down on my face, and crying out, I said, Ah, Lord! will you give all the rest of Israel to destruction in letting loose your wrath on Jerusalem?

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


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


rate difficulty: In the twenty-seventh year of Asa, king of Judah, Zimri was king for seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were attacking Gibbethon in the land of the Philistines.


rate difficulty: behold, they reward us, in coming to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to possess.

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


rate difficulty: And when it was evening he came with the twelve.


rate difficulty: My beloved put in his hand by the holeof the door, And my heart was moved for him.


simplify: And Shamsherai, and Shehariah, and Athaliah,

And Shamsherai and Shehariah and Athaliah


rate difficulty: And David is dancing with all strength before Jehovah, and David is girded with a linen ephod,

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


rate difficulty: Then the tribe of Naphtali, with Ahira, the son of Enan, as their chief.


simplify: It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:

It was also said — ‘Let anyone who divorces his wife serve her with a notice of separation.’


simplify: Lest thou learn his ways, And get a snare to thy soul.

For fear of learning his ways and making a net ready for your soul.


simplify: And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have in my hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.

But the servant said in answer, I have here a fourth part of a shekel of silver: I will give that to the man of God, and he will give us directions about our way.


rate difficulty: to bring in Vashti the queen before the king, with a royal crown, to shew the peoples and the heads her beauty, for she <FI>is<Fi> of good appearance,

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


simplify: And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.

And the men of Israel, turning again against the children of Benjamin, put to the sword without mercy all the towns and the cattle and everything there was, burning every town which came into their hands.


simplify: But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

But if he is not able to get it back for himself, then it will be kept by him who gave a price for it, till the year of Jubilee; and in that year it will go back to its first owner and he will have his property again.


rate difficulty: And, awaking from his wine, Noah saw what his youngest son had done to him, and he said,

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


simplify: and having opened his mouth, he was teaching them, saying:


rate difficulty: In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth;

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


simplify: But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

still, if you should marry, that is not wrong; nor, if a young woman marries, is that wrong. But those who marry will have much trouble to bear, and my wish is to spare you.


rate difficulty: A second time the owner sent some servants, a larger number than before, and the tenants treated them in the same way.

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


simplify: Thus Paul went out from among them.


rate difficulty: Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the Lord, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.

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


simplify: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;


simplify: And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.

And he said to her, You have forgiveness for your sins.


simplify: This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:

My loved ones, this is now my second letter to you, and in this as in the first, I am attempting to keep your true minds awake;


simplify: I robbed other churches, taking wages of them that I might minister unto you;

I took money from other churches as payment for my work, so that I might be your servant;


simplify: And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying,

And he said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who himself gave his word to David my father, and with his strong hand has made his word come true, saying,


rate difficulty: And thy palate as the good wine--'Flowing to my beloved in uprightness, Strengthening the lips of the aged!

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


simplify: And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.

As Paul and Barnabas were leaving the synagogue, the people begged for a repetition of this teaching on the next Sabbath.


simplify: And the Lord said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Let your rod be stretched out over the dust of the earth so that it may become insects through all the land of Egypt.


rate difficulty: And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?

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


simplify: And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you.

And Samuel said to all Israel, You see that I have given ear to everything you said to me, and have made a king over you.


rate difficulty: You will be cursed in the town and cursed in the field.

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


rate difficulty: Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; and thou shalt fear thyGod.

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


simplify: and a tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen lambs;

And a separate tenth part for every one of the fourteen lambs;


rate difficulty: and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness--indignation and wrath,

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


simplify: For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

For death has come up into our windows, forcing its way into our great houses; cutting off the children in the streets and the young men in the wide places.


simplify: And behold, forthwith three men stood before the house in which we were, having been sent from Cæsarea unto me.

And at that minute, three men, sent from Caesarea, came to the house where we were.


simplify: Then rose up the heads of fathers’housesof Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, even all whose spirit God had stirred to go up to build the house of Jehovah which is in Jerusalem.

Then the heads of families of Judah and Benjamin, with the priests and the Levites, got ready, even all those whose spirits were moved by God to go up and take in hand the building of the Lord's house in Jerusalem.


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

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


simplify: Yea, they have not been planted; yea, they have not been sown; yea, their stock hath not taken root in the earth: moreover he bloweth upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.

They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.


simplify: I am Jehovah, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.

I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Maker of Israel, your King.


rate difficulty: And the younger had a son and gave him the name Ben-ammi: from him come the children of Ammon to this day.

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


simplify: And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of thy God: I am Jehovah.

And do not take an oath in my name falsely, putting shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.


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

Say then to the children of Israel, I am Yahweh, and I will take you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians, and make you safe from their power, and will make you free by the strength of my arm after great punishments.


simplify: And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

Indeed, we have this command from God — ‘Those who love God must also love each other.’


simplify: Among the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even among the Hebronites, according to the generations of his fathers. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valour at Jazer of Gilead.

Of the Hebronites, Jerijah was the chief of all the Hebronites, in their generations by families. In the fortieth year of the rule of David a search was made, and able men were seen among them at Jazer of Gilead.


rate difficulty: There are three [things] which have a stately step, and four are comely in going:


simplify: And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him:

One young man did indeed follow him, wrapped only in a linen sheet. They tried to arrest him;


rate difficulty: This is the oblation that ye shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of wheat; and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of barley;

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


simplify: And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.

And when Tamar had news that her father-in-law was going up to Timnah to the wool-cutting,


rate difficulty: Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.

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


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

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


simplify: Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth:


rate difficulty: and Resen, between Nineveh and Calah: this is the great city.

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rate difficulty: The two and twentieth to Giddalti, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

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


simplify: Then said Saul unto his armor-bearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith, lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me. But his armor-bearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell upon it.

Then Saul said to the servant who had the care of his arms, Take your sword and put it through me, before these men without circumcision come and make sport of me. But his servant, full of fear, would not do so. Then Saul took out his sword, falling on it himself.


simplify: For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.

Truly, if we had not let the time go by, we might have come back again by now.


simplify: And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.

And while he was doing it, some was dropped by the wayside, and the birds came and took it for food.


simplify: And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man’s money in his sack’s mouth.

Then he gave orders to the servant who was over his house, saying, Put as much food into the men's bags as will go into them, and put every man's money in the mouth of his bag;


rate difficulty: And the altar was broken and the burned waste on it overturned; this was the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: So they went on increasing the power of the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, strong for three years; and for three years they went in the ways of David and Solomon.

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


rate difficulty: Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.

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


simplify: As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

As my hand has come on the kingdoms of the images, whose pictured images were more in number than those of Jerusalem and Samaria;


rate difficulty: And certain women who had been made free from evil spirits and diseases, Mary named Magdalene, from whom seven evil spirits had gone out,

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


simplify: For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

For you have kept the laws of Omri and all the works of the family of Ahab, and you have been guided by their designs: so that I might make you a cause of wonder and your people a cause of hisses; and the shame of my people will be on you.


rate difficulty: for the name of God because of you is evil spoken of among the nations, according as it hath been written.

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


simplify: Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be even given thee to the half of the kingdom.

Then the king said, What is your desire, Queen Esther, and what is your request? I will give it to you, even to the half of my kingdom.


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

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


simplify: And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

And I will make her chiefs and her wise men, her rulers and her captains and her men of war, overcome with wine; their sleep will be an eternal sleep without awaking, says the King; the Lord of armies is his name.


rate difficulty: Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:

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


rate difficulty: For he is sent into the net by his own feet, and he walketh on the meshes;

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


rate difficulty: And they rise early in the morning on the morrow, and lo, Dagon is fallen on its face to the earth, before the ark of Jehovah, and the head of Dagon, and the two palms of its hands are cut off at the threshold, only the fishy part hath been left to him;

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


rate difficulty: And these will be waved by the priest, with the bread of the first-fruits, for a wave offering to the Lord, with the two lambs: they will be holy to the Lord for the priest.


simplify: And Rephah was his son, also 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;


rate difficulty: So shall it be in the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the righteous,

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


simplify: and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.

May God, who inspires our hope, grant you perfect happiness and peace in your faith, until you are filled with this hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.


simplify: And if the priest shall come in, and look, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plastered; then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.

And if the priest comes in, and sees that the disease is not increased after the new paste has been put on the house, then the priest will say that the house is clean, because the disease is gone.


rate difficulty: they, being aware of it, fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the surrounding country,

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


simplify: not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

Giving no attention to the fictions of the Jews and the rules of men who have no true knowledge.


simplify: But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.

But that servant went out, and meeting one of the other servants, who was in debt to him for one hundred pence, he took him by the throat, saying, Make payment of your debt.


simplify: Wherefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you:

For which reason I was frequently kept from coming to you:


rate difficulty: For all of my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?

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


simplify: Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the Lord.

Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And Saul came to the town of Amalek, and took up his position in the valley secretly.

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


simplify: But should we say, From men—they feared the people: for all verily held John to be a prophet.

But if we say, From men--they were in fear of the people, because all took John to be truly a prophet.


rate difficulty: to whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were ministering these, which now were told to you (through those who did proclaim good news to you,) in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, to which things messengers do desire to bend looking.

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


simplify: O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

You children of snakes! How can you, evil as you are, say anything good? For what fills the heart will rise to the lips.


rate difficulty: and there appeared to them divided tongues, as it were of fire; it sat also upon each one of them,

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


rate difficulty: and God taketh away the substance of your father, and doth give to me.

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


simplify: The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,

The head-bands, and the arm-chains, and the worked bands, and the perfume-boxes, and the jewels with secret powers,


rate difficulty: And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?

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


simplify: And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

And some of the children of Israel went up, with some of the priests and the Levites and the music-makers and the door-keepers and the Nethinim, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.


rate difficulty: How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants? And thou reliest upon Egypt for chariots and for horsemen!

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


simplify: And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.

And he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt: go down there and get grain for us, so that life and not death may be ours.


simplify: Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.

‘I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses trembled, and did not dare to look.


simplify: And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of Jehovah were come up out of the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet were lifted up unto the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned unto their place, and went over all its banks, as aforetime.

And when the priests who took up the ark of the Lord's agreement came up out of Jordan and their feet came out on to dry land, the waters of Jordan went back to their place, overflowing its edges as before.


simplify: in wisdom walk ye toward those without, the time forestalling;

Show tact in your behavior to the outside world, making the most of every opportunity.


simplify: And it shall come to pass in the day of Jehovah’s sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king’s sons, and all such as are clothed with foreign apparel.

And it will come about in the day of the Lord's offering, that I will send punishment on the rulers and the king's sons and all who are clothed in robes from strange lands.


simplify: Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

Women are to be serious in behaviour, saying no evil of others, controlling themselves, true in all things.


rate difficulty: and others fell upon the rocky places where they had not much earth, and immediately they sprang up out of [the ground] because of not having [any] depth of earth,

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


rate difficulty: I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord God.

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


rate difficulty: Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Jehovah?


rate difficulty: but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we waxed bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God in much conflict.

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


rate difficulty: Share hardships with me, as a true soldier of Christ Jesus.

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


simplify: And the courses of the sons of Aaron were these. The sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

Now the divisions into which the sons of Aaron were grouped were these: the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.


simplify: But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,

All their actions are done to attract attention. They widen their phylacteries, and increase the size of their tassels,


simplify: And those by the way side are they that have heard; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.

Those by the side of the road are those who have given hearing; then the Evil One comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not have faith and get salvation.


simplify: the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest—

The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:


simplify: This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

This is the town which was full of joy, living without fear of danger, saying in her heart, I am, and there is no other: how has she been made waste, a place for beasts to take their rest in! everyone who goes by her will make hisses, waving his hand.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.

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


simplify: Apply thy heart unto instruction, And thine ears to the words of knowledge.

Give your heart to teaching, and your ears to the words of knowledge.


simplify: For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

For Gaza will be given up and Ashkelon will become waste: they will send Ashdod out in the middle of the day, and Ekron will be uprooted.


rate difficulty: — and Jehovah delivered to me the two tables of stone written with the finger ofGod; and on them [was written] according to all the words which Jehovah spoke with you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.

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


simplify: Or what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek diligently until she find it?

Or what woman, having ten bits of silver, if one bit has gone from her hands, will not get a light, and go through her house, searching with care till she sees it?


simplify: As he is yet speaking, there come from the chief of the synagogue's <FI>house, certain<Fi> , saying--`Thy daughter did die, why still dost thou harass the Teacher?'

Before he had finished speaking, some people from the house of the synagogue leader came and said: “Your daughter is dead! Why should you trouble the teacher further?”


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, after his burying him, that he speaketh unto his sons, saying, `At my death--ye have buried me in the burying-place in which the man of God is buried; near his bones place my bones;

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


rate difficulty: And the brightness is as the light, He hath rays out of His hand, And there--the hiding of His strength.

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


simplify: and he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

And he had two wives, one named Hannah and the other Peninnah: and Peninnah was the mother of children, but Hannah had no children.


rate difficulty: But there was a certain man named Simon, who in the past had been a wonder-worker and a cause of surprise to the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was a great man:

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


simplify: And they journeyed from Almon-diblathaim, and encamped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.

And from Almon-diblathaim they went on, and put up their tents in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.


simplify: but the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became subject to taskwork.

For the Amorites would go on living in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim; but the children of Joseph became stronger than they, and put them to forced work.


simplify: And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

And why do you take note of the grain of dust in your brother's eye, but take no note of the bit of wood which is in your eye?


simplify: And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.

And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.


rate difficulty: So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over Jordan.


rate difficulty: Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves.


rate difficulty: And there shall be no leaven seen with thee in all thy borders seven days; neither shall any of the flesh, which thou sacrificest the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.

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


simplify: And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.

And Samuel was judge of Israel all the days of his life.


simplify: And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.

They were full of pride and did what was disgusting to me: and so I took them away as you have seen.


rate difficulty: There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

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


simplify: And Samuel told all the words of Jehovah unto the people that asked of him a king.

And Samuel said all these words of the Lord to the people who were desiring a king.


simplify: He feedeth on ashes; a deceived heart hath turned him aside; and he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.


simplify: And the kine took the straight way by the way to Beth-shemesh; they went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Beth-shemesh.

And the cows took the straight way, by the road to Beth-shemesh; they went by the highway, not turning to the right or to the left, and the sound of their voices was clear on the road; and the lords of the Philistines went after them as far as the edge of Beth-shemesh.


rate difficulty: When thou hast ended purging it, thou shalt present a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish;

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


rate difficulty: For as indeed ye [also] once have not believed inGod, but now have been objects of mercy through the unbelief of these;

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


simplify: Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:

Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the purpose of God, and Timothy the brother, to the church of God which is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia:


simplify: And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord God.

And Egypt will no longer be the hope of the children of Israel, causing sin to come to mind when their eyes are turned to them: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.


simplify: And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?

And he said to them, Which of you, whose ox or ass has got into a water-hole, will not straight away get him out on the Sabbath?


rate difficulty: Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.

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


simplify: And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them away from the city unto the highways.

And the children of Benjamin said, They are giving way before us as at first. But the children of Israel said, Let us go in flight and get them away from the town, into the highways.


simplify: And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the house.

And this you are to do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who is in error and for the feeble-minded: you are to make the house free from sin.


rate difficulty: And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left: if harm befall him by the way in which ye go, then will ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.

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


simplify: Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?

Or those eighteen men at Siloam on whom the tower fell, killing them all, do you suppose that they were worse offenders than any other inhabitants of Jerusalem?


rate difficulty: And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, `The days of the years of my sojournings <FI>are<Fi> an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.'

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


simplify: 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.

And the captains of hundreds did as Jehoiada the priest gave them orders; every one took with him his men, those who came in and those who went out on the Sabbath, and they came in to Jehoiada the priest.


rate difficulty: And Ummah and Aphek and Rehob; twenty-two towns with their unwalled places.

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


simplify: Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;

Son of man, give a word to the children of your people, and say to them, When I make the sword come on a land, if the people of the land take a man from among their number and make him their watchman:


simplify: And he sent yet a third: and him also they wounded, and cast him forth.

And he sent a third, and they gave him wounds and put him out.


simplify: She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: And happy is every one that retaineth her.

She is a tree of life to all who take her in their hands, and happy is everyone who keeps her.


rate difficulty: And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?

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


simplify: And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

And most of the brothers in the Lord, taking heart because of my chains, are all the stronger to give the word of God without fear.


rate difficulty: And he said to him, Go in peace. And he went from him some distance.


rate difficulty: Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?

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


simplify: And he said to them, `Because of this every scribe having been discipled in regard to the reign of the heavens, is like to a man, a householder, who doth bring forth out of his treasure things new and old.'

Then he added: “So every teacher of the law, who has received instruction about the kingdom of heaven, is like a householder who produces from his stores things both new and old.”


simplify: And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:

And Methuselah was a hundred and eighty-seven years old when he became the father of Lamech:


simplify: For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

For the Lord God is my helper; I will not be put to shame: so I have made my face like a rock, and I am certain that he will give me my right.


simplify: For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

Outside will be the filthy, the sorcerers, the impure, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who love the false and live it.’


simplify: He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

He put up the higher doorway of the house of the Lord, and did much building on the wall of the Ophel.


simplify: Thus did Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the Levites: according unto all that Jehovah commanded Moses touching the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.

All these things Moses and Aaron and the children of Israel did to the Levites; as the Lord gave orders to Moses about the Levites, so the children of Israel did.


simplify: Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.

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


simplify: All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.

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


simplify: And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.

Say to Archippus, See that you do the work which the Lord has given you to do.


simplify: And thine eyes shall not pity; life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Have no pity; let life be given for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.


simplify: Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.

Give ear to the word of the Lord, O you nations, and give news of it in the sea-lands far away, and say, He who has sent Israel wandering will get him together and will keep him as a keeper does his flock.


simplify: See now that I, even I, am he, And there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; And there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

See now, I myself am he; there is no other god but me: giver of death and life, wounding and making well: and no one has power to make you free from my hand.


rate difficulty: And the Levites and all Judah 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 them that were to go forth on the sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest did not liberate the divisions.

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simplify: Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of Jehovah. Curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof, Because they came not to the help of Jehovah, To the help of Jehovah against the mighty.

A curse, a curse on Meroz! said the angel of the Lord. A bitter curse on her townspeople! Because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord among the strong ones.


simplify: If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and he come and swear before thine altar in this house;

If a man does wrong to his neighbour, and has to take an oath, and comes before your altar to take his oath in this house:


rate difficulty: The land mourneth, it languisheth; Lebanon is ashamed, is withered; the Sharon is become as a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped.

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

And came to him and put clean linen round his wounds, with oil and wine; and he put him on his beast and took him to a house and took care of him.


rate difficulty: In that day come doth the escaped one to thee. To cause the ears to hear.

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rate difficulty: What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

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rate difficulty: And then the coast turneth westward to Aznoth–tabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising.

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rate difficulty: For scripture says — ‘“As surely as I live,” says the Lord, “every knee will bend before me; and every tongue will make acknowledgment to God.”’

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rate difficulty: And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.

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rate difficulty: the three of the cities ye give beyond the Jordan, and the three of the cities ye give in the land of Canaan; cities of refuge they are.


rate difficulty: Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causeth a father to rejoice, And a foolish son <FI>is<Fi> an affliction to his mother.

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rate difficulty: And the wind, lifting me up, took me in the visions of God into Chaldaea, to those who had been taken away as prisoners. So the vision which I had seen went away from me.


simplify: And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon;

And the son of Ram was Amminadab; and the son of Amminadab was Nahshon; and the son of Nahshon was Salmon;


simplify: He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.

He whose rod was on the peoples with an unending wrath, ruling the nations in passion, with an uncontrolled rule.


rate difficulty: and Isaac turneth back, and diggeth the wells of water which they digged in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines do stop after the death of Abraham, and he calleth to them names according to the names which his father called them.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah appointed a set time, saying, To-morrow will Jehovah do this thing in the land.

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simplify: All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince in Israel.

All the people are to give this offering to the ruler.


simplify: For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down.

For this cause I am writing these things while I am away, so that there may be need for me, when I am present, to make use of sharp measures, by the authority which the Lord has given me for building up and not for destruction.


simplify: Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.

And truly I say to you, Wherever the good news goes out through all the earth, what this woman has done will be talked of in memory of her.


rate difficulty: Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer-hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.

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rate difficulty: Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense.


simplify: And, behold, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou Son of David.

And two blind men seated by the wayside, when they had the news that Jesus was going by, gave a loud cry, saying, Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us.


rate difficulty: You, then, must become perfect — as your heavenly Father is perfect.


simplify: And Jesus went out thence, and withdrew into the parts of Tyre and Sidon.

And Jesus went away from there into the country of Tyre and Sidon.


simplify: And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

If a man takes a virgin, who has not given her word to another man, and has connection with her, he will have to give a bride-price for her to be his wife.


simplify: Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

Do not give what is sacred to dogs; they will turn and maul you. Do not throw your pearls before pigs; they will trample them underfoot.


rate difficulty: And neither thus did their testimony agree.


simplify: Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?

Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?


simplify: for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

For our sake God made Christ, who was innocent of sin, one with our sinfulness, so that in him we might be made one with the righteousness of God.


rate difficulty: If no one welcomes you, or listens to what you say, as you leave that house or that town, shake off its dust from your feet.

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rate difficulty: Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.

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


simplify: `And the lord said unto the servant, Go forth to the ways and hedges, and constrain to come in, that my house may be filled;

‘Go out,’ the master said, ‘into the roads and hedgerows, and make people come in, so that my house may be filled;


simplify: Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,

Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, The prayer you have made to me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, has come to my ears.


rate difficulty: See, for Jehovah hath given you the sabbath; therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread for two days. Abide every man in his place: let no man go from his place on the seventh day.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be said, The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

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simplify: Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.

Send for the archers to come together against Babylon, all the bowmen; put up your tents against her on every side; let no one get away: give her the reward of her work; as she has done, so do to her: for she has been uplifted in pride against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.


simplify: A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.

A sword is on the Chaldaeans, says the Lord, and on the people of Babylon, and on her rulers and on her wise men.


simplify: For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.

Now it is hard for anyone to give his life even for an upright man, though it might be that for a good man someone would give his life.


rate difficulty: And the masters of Shechem set for him ambushes on the top of the hills, and rob every one who passeth over by them in the way, and it is declared to Abimelech.

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


simplify: The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.

A scholar is not above their teacher; yet every finished scholar will be like their teacher.


rate difficulty: And the chief priest, having rent his garments, saith, `What need have we yet of witnesses?

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simplify: And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.

And after three days they came across him in the Temple, seated among the wise men, giving ear to their words and putting questions to them.


rate difficulty: And I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.

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rate difficulty: And they made their father drink wine that night: and the first-born went in, and lay with her father; and he knew not when she lay down, nor when she arose.


simplify: Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith Jehovah: shall I that cause to bring forth shut the womb? saith thy God.

Will I by whom the birth was started, not make it complete? says the Lord. Will I who make children come to birth, let them be kept back? says your God.


rate difficulty: Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.

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


rate difficulty: The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.

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


simplify: Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of work: it is a sabbath unto Jehovah in all your dwellings.

On six days work may be done; but the seventh day is a special day of rest, a time for worship; you may do no sort of work: it is a Sabbath to the Lord wherever you may be living.


rate difficulty: But you will be given up even by your fathers and mothers, your brothers and relations and friends; and some of you will be put to death.

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rate difficulty: And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaare–oregim, a Beth–lehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.

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simplify: Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,

Then men will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he took them out of the land of Egypt:


simplify: Because that thou mayest understand, that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship.

Seeing that you are able to make certain of the fact that it is not more than twelve days from the time when I came up to Jerusalem for worship;


simplify: And after these things, Paul having departed out of Athens, came to Corinth,

On leaving Athens, Paul next went to Corinth.


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

We have found this man a public pest; he is one who stirs up disputes among our people all the world over, and is a ringleader of the Nazarene heretics.


rate difficulty: And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.


simplify: Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.

Now the men of Israel had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, Not one of us will give his daughter as a wife to Benjamin.


rate difficulty: On another occasion Jesus went in to a synagogue, where there was a man whose hand was withered.

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simplify: And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.

At the proper time he sent a servant to the tenants, so that they could give him a share of the produce of the vineyard. The tenants, however, beat him and sent him away empty-handed.


simplify: But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.

If the owner is with it, he will not have to make payment: if he gave money for the use of it, the loss is covered by the payment.


rate difficulty: And I sent the hornet before you, driving out the two kings of the Amorites before you, not with your sword and your bow.

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simplify: merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stone, and pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet; and all thyine wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble;

Gold, and silver, and stones of great price, and jewels, and delicate linen, and robes of purple and silk and red; and perfumed wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel made of fair wood, and of brass, and iron, and stone;


simplify: And it came to pass a long time after that the Lord had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old and stricken in age.

Now after a long time, when the Lord had given Israel rest from wars on every side, and Joshua was old and full of years,


rate difficulty: And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.

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rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto me, `Son of man, set thy heart, and see with thine eyes, and with thine ears hear, all that I am speaking with thee, of all the statutes of the house of Jehovah, and of all its laws; and thou hast set thy heart to the entrance of the house, with all the outlets of the sanctuary,

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rate difficulty: Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

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simplify: And he asked the scribes, What question ye with them?

“What are you arguing about with them?”Jesus asked.


rate difficulty: And the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, saying,

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


rate difficulty: A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.

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


rate difficulty: And the tribute to Jehovah of the sheep is six hundred five and seventy;

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simplify: The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

The beast which you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the great deep, and to go into destruction. And those who are on the earth, whose names have not been put in the book of life from the first, will be full of wonder when they see the beast, that he was, and is not, and still will be.


simplify: Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

A lover of training is a lover of knowledge; but a hater of teaching is like a beast.


rate difficulty: The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.


simplify: Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord

So, then, we are ever without fear, and though conscious that while we are in the body we are away from the Lord,


simplify: Three bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three bowls made like almonds in another branch, a knop and a flower: so throughout the six branches going out of the candlestick.

Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a flower on all the branches;


simplify: Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother,

From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God, and from Timothy, also a follower of the Lord.


simplify: But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;

There were, doubtless, many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the heavens were closed for three years and six months, and a severe famine prevailed throughout the country;


simplify: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

It is planted a natural body; it comes again as a body of the spirit. If there is a natural body, there is equally a body of the spirit.


simplify: And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were, Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.

And the sons of Ram, the oldest son of Jerahmeel, were Maaz and Jamin and Eker.


rate difficulty: Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delighteth: I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.


simplify: But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

But they gave no attention and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff so that they might not give ear and might not get teaching.


simplify: Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.

And for this, I tell you, her sins, many as they are, have been pardoned, because she has loved greatly; but one who has little pardoned him, loves but little.”


rate difficulty: so that we exhorted Titus, that, according as he did begin before, so also he may finish to you also this favour,

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rate difficulty: For other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

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


rate difficulty: And the battle increaseth on that day, and the king hath been caused to stand in the chariot, over-against Aram, and he dieth in the evening, and the blood of the wound runneth out unto the midst of the chariot,

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rate difficulty: `Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour--a false testimony.

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


rate difficulty: The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul; but it is abomination to the foolish to depart from evil.


rate difficulty: if this people go up to make sacrifices in the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem, then hath the heart of this people turned back unto their lord, unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they have slain me, and turned back unto Rehoboam king of Judah.'

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


rate difficulty: Wise design and good sense are mine; reason and strength are mine.


rate difficulty: While he was still talking, someone came from the house of the ruler of the Synagogue, saying, Your daughter is dead; do not go on troubling the Master.

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


rate difficulty: But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

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


simplify: And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things.

It was I, John, who heard and saw these things; and, when I heard and saw them, I prostrated myself in worship at the feet of the angel that showed them to me.


rate difficulty: And though they say, As Jehovah liveth; surely they swear falsely.

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


rate difficulty: and Moses lifteth up his hand, and smiteth the rock with his rod twice; and much water cometh out, and the company drink, also their beasts.

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


simplify: Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.

Truly, all those who make use of secret arts will be put to shame, and their words of power are only words of men: let them all come forward together; they will all be in fear and be put to shame.


rate difficulty: Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this; and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.


simplify: and the peace of God, that is surpassing all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

Then the peace of God, which is beyond all human understanding, will stand guard over your hearts and thoughts, through your union with Christ Jesus.


simplify: it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body; there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body;

As surely as there is a human body, there is also a spiritual body.


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

And get together another army like the one which came to destruction, horse for horse, and carriage for carriage; and let us make war on them in the lowlands, and certainly we will be stronger than they. And he gave ear to what they said, and did so.


rate difficulty: And the king Zedekiah commandeth, and they commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, also to give to him a cake of bread daily from the bakers' street, till the consumption of all the bread of the city, and Jeremiah dwelleth in the court of the prison.

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


rate difficulty: And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: yea, hear thou in heaven thy dwelling-place; and when thou hearest, forgive.

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rate difficulty: But if he is not able to get it back for himself, then it will be kept by him who gave a price for it, till the year of Jubilee; and in that year it will go back to its first owner and he will have his property again.

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


simplify: Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.

But the wine-servant did not keep Joseph in mind or give a thought to him.


simplify: But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

But what I tell you is this: love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you,


simplify: so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

Therefore, my dear friends, stand firm, unshaken, always diligent in the Lord’s work, for you know that, in union with him, your toil is not in vain.


rate difficulty: And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.


simplify: who for my life laid down their own necks; unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles:

Who for my life put their necks in danger; to whom not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are in debt:


rate difficulty: And as for you, the anointing which ye received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any one teach you; but as his anointing teacheth you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, ye abide in him.

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


rate difficulty: Get wisdom, get understanding; Forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth;

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


simplify: If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

If, in that very minute, that nation of which I was talking is turned away from its evil, my purpose of doing evil to them will be changed.


simplify: Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.

Eliel and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.


simplify: Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out.


rate difficulty: Then Jacob put his wives and his sons on camels;


rate difficulty: And all your builders will be made wise by the Lord; and great will be the peace of your children.

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


simplify: Thus saith the Lord of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.

This is what the Lord of armies has said: There will again be old men and old women seated in the open spaces of Jerusalem, every man with his stick in his hand because he is so old.


rate difficulty: but, when he felt the wind, he was frightened, and, beginning to sink, cried out: “Master! Save me!”

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


simplify: Then Paul called one of the centurions unto him, and said, Bring this young man unto the chief captain: for he hath a certain thing to tell him.

Paul called one of the Captains of the garrison and asked him to take the lad to the commanding officer, as he had something to tell him.


rate difficulty: For circumcision, indeed, doth profit, if law thou mayest practise, but if a transgressor of law thou mayest be, thy circumcision hath become uncircumcision.

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rate difficulty: And there shall be night no more; and they need no light of lamp, neither light of sun; for the Lord God shall give them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.


simplify: And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty’s sake.

And again he said to him, By chance there may be forty there. And he said, I will not do it if there are forty.


simplify: Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will perform that good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah.

See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will give effect to the good word which I have said about the people of Israel and the people of Judah.


simplify: And the chief of the synagogue answering--much displeased that on the sabbath Jesus healed--said to the multitude, `Six days there are in which it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> to be working; in these, then, coming, be healed, and not on the sabbath-day.'

But the synagogue leader, indignant that Jesus had worked the cure on the Sabbath, intervened and said to the people: “There are six days on which work ought to be done; come to be cured on one of those, and not on the Sabbath.”


rate difficulty: So Rebekah and her servant-women went with the man, seated on the camels; and so the servant took Rebekah and went on his way.


rate difficulty: The shield of his mighty ones is become red, Men of might <FI>are in<Fi> scarlet, With fiery torches <FI>is<Fi> the chariot in a day of his preparation, And the firs have been caused to tremble.

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


rate difficulty: And I have judged thee--judgments of adulteresses, And of women shedding blood, And have given thee blood, fury, and jealousy.

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


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

This was in fulfillment of what is said in the writings of the prophet Isaiah —  ‘The voice of one crying aloud in the wilderness: “Make ready the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight.


simplify: Salma the father of Beth–lehem, Hareph the father of Beth–gader.

Salma, the father of Beth-lehem, Hareph, the father of Beth-gader.


rate difficulty: Give my greeting to Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in the cause of Christ Jesus,

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


rate difficulty: As to the house that king Solomon hath built for Jehovah, sixty cubits <FI>is<Fi> its length, and twenty its breadth, and thirty cubits its height.

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


rate difficulty: Then are crucified with him two robbers, one on the right hand and one on the left.


simplify: Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.

Is the seed still in the store-house? have the vine and the fig-tree, the pomegranate and the olive-tree, still not given their fruit? from this day I will send my blessing on you.


simplify: And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

And the strong will be as food for the fire, and his work as a flame; and they will be burned together, with no one to put out the fire.


rate difficulty: The children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephisim,


rate difficulty: And the Angel of Jehovah stood in a hollow of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.

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


simplify: and having given thanks, he brake, and said, `Take ye, eat ye, this is my body, that for you is being broken; this do ye--to the remembrance of me.'

and, after saying the thanksgiving, broke it and said “This is my own body given on your behalf. Do this in memory of me.”


simplify: And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people departed.

And he said to them, Come to me again after three days. So the people went away.


simplify: And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Perceive ye not, that whatsoever from without goeth into the man, it cannot defile him;

And he said to them, Have even you so little wisdom? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside is not able to make him unclean,


rate difficulty: and he having put all forth without, and having taken hold of her hand, called, saying, `Child, arise;'

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


rate difficulty: Then the third angel emptied his bowl on the rivers and springs of water; and it turned to blood.

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


rate difficulty: This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.

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


simplify: Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,

Son of man, make clear to Jerusalem her disgusting ways,


simplify: Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;


rate difficulty: But Jehovah sent out a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.


simplify: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.

And being seen in form as a man, he took the lowest place, and let himself be put to death, even the death of the cross.


rate difficulty: For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

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


simplify: He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who refuses to believe will be condemned.


simplify: `Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad, for from the fruit is the tree known.

You must assume either that both tree and fruit are good, or that both tree and fruit are worthless; since it is by its fruits that a tree is known.


rate difficulty: Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?


simplify: And the border of the children of Reuben was the Jordan, and the border thereof. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and the villages thereof.

And the limit of the children of Reuben was the edge of Jordan. This was the heritage of the children of Reuben by their families, with its towns and its unwalled places.


simplify: But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

But he who, without knowledge, did things for which punishment is given, will get only a small number of blows. The man to whom much is given, will have to give much; if much is given into his care, of him more will be requested.


simplify: And the peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.

And there is no sound in the fields of peace, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.


simplify: this one, indeed, then, purchased a field out of the reward of unrighteousness, and falling headlong, burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed forth,

(This man had bought a piece of land with the price of his treachery; and, falling heavily, his body had burst open, and all his bowels protruded.