rate difficulty: No sin-offering, the blood of which is taken into the Tent of meeting, to take away sin in the holy place, may be used for food: it is to be burned with fire.

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


simplify: Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.

Now it came about that, after hearing all the words, they said to one another in fear, We will certainly give the king an account of all these words.


rate difficulty: the wisdom and the knowledge is given to thee, and riches and wealth and honour I give to thee, that there hath not been so to the kings who <FI>are<Fi> before thee, and after thee it is not so.'

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


simplify: And coming to us, and taking Paul’s girdle, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, Thus saith the Holy Spirit, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.

And he came to us, and took the band of Paul's clothing, and putting it round his feet and hands, said, The Holy Spirit says these words, So will the Jews do to the man who is the owner of this band, and they will give him up into the hands of the Gentiles.


rate difficulty: of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brethren eighty;

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


rate difficulty: and sent them to proclaim the kingdom ofGod and to heal the sick.

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


simplify: But, The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.

But, By the living Lord, who took the children of Israel up out of the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had sent them: and I will take them back again to their land which I gave to their fathers.


rate difficulty: Up! go down to the potter's house, and there I will let my words come to your ears.


rate difficulty: Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem goeth up.

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


simplify: Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

Whether, then, it was I or whether it was they, this we proclaim, and this you believed.


rate difficulty: And he looked round about to see her who had done this.


simplify: The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,

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


simplify: Also for the sons of Aaron the priests, that were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every city, there were men that were mentioned by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogy among the Levites.

And as for the sons of Aaron, the priests, living in the country on the outskirts of their towns, every different town there were men, marked out by name, to give their part of the goods to all the males among the priests, and to all who were listed among the Levites.


simplify: And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.

And Achish in answer said, It is true that in my eyes you are good, like an angel of God: but still, the rulers of the Philistines have said, He is not to go up with us to the fight.


rate difficulty: Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be ye valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.

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


simplify: Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven,

By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,


rate difficulty: And it came to pass when he came into the neighbourhood of Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the wayside begging.

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


simplify: Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;

And they said to the men of Benjamin, Go into the vine-gardens, waiting there secretly,


rate difficulty: Damascus dealt with thee because of the multitude of thy handiworks, by reason of the abundance of all substance, with wine of Helbon, and white wool.

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


rate difficulty: a nation--fierce of countenance--which accepteth not the face of the aged, and the young doth not favour;

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


rate difficulty: Thy two breasts are like two fawns That are twins of a roe, Which feed among the lilies.

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


simplify: Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

Servants, do what is ordered by those who are your natural masters, having respect and fear for them, with all your heart, as to Christ;


simplify: and having come, it findeth <FI>it<Fi> swept and adorned;

but, on coming there, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order.


simplify: And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.

And God said that his seed would be living in a strange land, and that they would make them servants, and be cruel to them for four hundred years.


rate difficulty: Seek ye Jehovah, while He is found, Call ye Him, while He is near,

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


rate difficulty: For I give witness of them that they have a strong desire for God, but not with knowledge.

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


rate difficulty: And he took with him Peter and James and John, and grief and great trouble came on him.

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


simplify: David smote also Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his dominion at the River.

And David overcame Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, when he went to make his power seen by the River.


simplify: And the Lord appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.

And the Lord was seen in the Tent in a pillar of cloud resting by the door of the Tent.


simplify: God, my rock, in him will I take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge; My saviour, thou savest me from violence.

My God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my safe place; my saviour, who keeps me safe from the violent man.


simplify: And when the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

And the Lord, seeing that they had made themselves low, said to Shemaiah, They have made themselves low: I will not send destruction on them, but in a short time I will give them salvation, and will not let loose my wrath on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.


simplify: which some professing have erred concerning the faith.  Grace be with you.

Through which some, who gave their minds to it, have been turned away from the faith. Grace be with you.


simplify: Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:

Or if I send a sword against that land, and say, Sword, go through the land, cutting off from it man and beast:


simplify: Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:

Then take care that you are not turned away from the Lord your God and from keeping his orders and decisions and laws which I give you this day:


rate difficulty: Therefore thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thou art exalted in stature, and he hath set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

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


simplify: And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

And, if anyone gives but a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because they are a disciple, I tell you that they will assuredly not lose their reward.”


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


rate difficulty: All [this] have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a righteous [man] that perisheth by his righteousness, and there is a wicked [man] that prolongeth [his days] by his wickedness.

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


rate difficulty: And David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David begat more sons and daughters.

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


simplify: Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:

You have heard that it was said — ‘You must not commit adultery.’


simplify: and let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast showed kindness unto my master.

Now, may the girl to whom I say, Let down your vessel and give me a drink, and who says in answer, Here is a drink for you and let me give water to your camels: may she be the one marked out by you for your servant Isaac: so may I be certain that you have been good to my master Abraham.


rate difficulty: Lo, I am watching over them for evil, and not for good, and consumed have been all the men of Judah who <FI>are<Fi> in the land of Egypt, by sword and by famine, till their consumption.

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


simplify: And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the Lord.

And you are to give, morning by morning, a meal offering with it, a sixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of oil dropped on the best meal; a meal offering offered to the Lord at all times by an eternal order.


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

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


simplify: He who is having an ear--let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies.'

Let those who have ears hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.”


simplify: And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.

and, noticing a solitary fig tree by the roadside, he went up to it, but found nothing on it but leaves. So he said to it: “Never again will fruit be gathered off you.” And suddenly the fruit tree withered up.


simplify: For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep.

For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are still living at the coming of the Lord, will not go before those who are sleeping.


rate difficulty: and every creature that is in the heaven, and in the earth, and under the earth, and the things that are upon the sea, and the all things in them, heard I saying, `To Him who is sitting upon the throne, and to the Lamb, <FI>is<Fi> the blessing, and the honour, and the glory, and the might--to the ages of the ages!'

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


simplify: Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.

Make a move now, and go on your way into the hill-country of the Amorites and the places near it, in the Arabah and the hill-country and in the lowlands and in the South and by the seaside, all the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.


simplify: And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them; and he departed.

And burning with wrath against them, the Lord went away.


rate difficulty: Then King Solomon took an oath by the Lord, saying, May God's punishment be on me if Adonijah does not give payment for these words with his life.

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


simplify: And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

And every man who takes part in the sports has self-control in all things. Now they do it to get a crown which is of this world, but we for an eternal crown.


simplify: And Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor did question him, saying, `Art thou the king of the Jews!' And Jesus said to him, `Thou sayest.'

Meanwhile Jesus was brought before the Roman Governor. “Are you the king of the Jews?” asked the Governor. “It is true,” answered Jesus.


rate difficulty: and the Spirit of Jehovah is upon him, and he judgeth Israel, and goeth out to battle, and Jehovah giveth unto his hand Chushan-Rishathaim king of Aram, and strong is his hand against Chushan-Rishathaim;

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


rate difficulty: David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed.

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


simplify: If thou art the Christ, tell us. But he said unto them, If I tell you, ye will not believe:

If you are the Christ, say so. But he said, If I say so you will not have belief;


simplify: For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.

for the people were following in a mass, shouting out: “Kill him!”


simplify: And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

And weeping for joy, Jacob gave Rachel a kiss.


simplify: Ye mountains of Gilboa, Let there be no dew nor rain upon you, neither fields of offerings: For there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away, The shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.

O mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain on you, you fields of death: for there the arms of the strong have been shamed, the arms of Saul, as if he had not been marked with the holy oil.


rate difficulty: But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto othergods.

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


rate difficulty: Then the glory of the Lord departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims.

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


rate difficulty: For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.

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


rate difficulty: Wisdom <FI>is<Fi> high for a fool, In the gate he openeth not his mouth.

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


rate difficulty: Treating evil the barren <FI>who<Fi> beareth not, And <FI>to<Fi> the widow he doth no good,

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


simplify: Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

Do not you know that you are God’s Temple, and that God’s Spirit has his home in you?


simplify: And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

and then a widow, until she had reached the age of eighty-four. She never left the Temple Courts, but, fasting and praying, worshiped God night and day.


rate difficulty: And he setteth the golden altar in the tent of meeting, before the vail,


rate difficulty: And if a son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon him: but if not, it shall turn to you again.

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


rate difficulty: By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.


rate difficulty: What is it then? a multitude must necessarily come together, for they will hear that thou art come.

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


rate difficulty: according to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.


simplify: The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

The last enemy to be overthrown is death;


simplify: All these were the sons of Heman the king’s seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

All these were sons of Heman, the king's seer in the words of God. And to make great his power God gave Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.


simplify: he offered for his oblation one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering;

He gave one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering;


simplify: And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.

The whole church and all who heard of these events were appalled.


rate difficulty: But this thou hast, that thou hatest the works of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate.

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


rate difficulty: and this I say, that no one may beguile you in enticing words,

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


rate difficulty: And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the Lord:

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


simplify: And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination; it shall not be accepted:

If any of it is used for food on the third day, it is a disgusting thing and will not be pleasing to the Lord.


simplify: For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.

(For the Pharisees, and indeed all strict Jews, will not eat without first scrupulously washing their hands, holding in this to the traditions of their ancestors.


simplify: And he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.

And he said to me, Solomon your son will be the builder of my house and the open spaces round it; for I have taken him to be my son, and I will be his father.


rate difficulty: At this the high priest was roused to action, and he and all his supporters (who formed the party of the Sadducees), moved by jealousy,

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


simplify: Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the Lord’s house should be built.

These are the words of the Lord of armies: These people say, The time has not come for building the Lord's house.


rate difficulty: And I saw, and lo, a Lamb having stood upon the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty-four thousands, having the name of his Father written upon their foreheads;

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


simplify: Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Ho! everyone in need, come to the waters, and he who has no strength, let him get food: come, get bread without money; wine and milk without price.


rate difficulty: Behold, a day of Jehovah cometh, when thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.


simplify: but to go shod with sandals: and, said he, put not on two coats.

They were to go with common shoes on their feet, and not to take two coats.


simplify: These are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and that returned unto Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his city;

These are the people of the divisions of the kingdom, among those who had been made prisoners by Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and taken away by him, who went back to Jerusalem and Judah, every one to his town;


simplify: But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

But it was my decision for myself, not to come again to you with sorrow.


rate difficulty: See, I will take my place before you on the rock in Horeb; and when you give the rock a blow, water will come out of it, and the people will have drink. And Moses did so before the eyes of the chiefs of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: `Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel: Go, and thou hast spoken unto Zedekiah king of Judah, and hast said unto him, Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he hath burned it with fire,

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


simplify: When Jesus came into the coasts of Cesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?

Now when Jesus had come into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he said, questioning his disciples, Who do men say that the Son of man is?


simplify: Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father’s household, home unto thee.

If, when we come into the land, you put this cord of bright red thread in the window from which you let us down; and get your father and mother and your brothers and all your family into the house;


rate difficulty: And I have appointed on the world evil, And on the wicked their iniquity, And have caused to cease the excellency of the proud, And the excellency of the terrible I make low.

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


simplify: whom we proclaim, warning every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus,

This is the Christ whom we proclaim, warning everyone, and instructing everyone, with all the wisdom that we possess, in the hope of bringing everyone into God’s presence perfected by union with Christ.


rate difficulty: and light of a lamp may not shine at all in thee any more; and voice of bridegroom and of bride may not be heard at all in thee any more; because thy merchants were the great ones of the earth, because in thy sorcery were all the nations led astray,

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


simplify: Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

But then, Hezekiah, in sorrow for what he had done, put away his pride; and he and all Jerusalem made themselves low, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come on them in Hezekiah's life-time.


rate difficulty: House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

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


simplify: then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he shall not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.

Then my agreement with my servant David may be broken, so that he no longer has a son to take his place on the seat of the kingdom; and my agreement with the Levites, the priests, my servants.


simplify: Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea grew more and more tempestuous.

And they said to him, What are we to do to you so that the sea may become calm for us? For the sea was getting rougher and rougher.


rate difficulty: And he said to him, `Man, who set me a judge or a divider over you?'

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


rate difficulty: 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.

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


rate difficulty: Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.

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


simplify: And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not.

There they offered him drugged wine; but Jesus refused it.


simplify: And as for thee, son of man, the children of thy people talk of thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from Jehovah.

And as for you, son of man, the children of your people are talking together about you by the walls and in the doorways of the houses, saying to one another, Come now, give ear to the word which comes from the Lord.


simplify: For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

For it is my desire, my brothers, that you may keep in mind how all our fathers were under the cloud, and they all went through the sea;


rate difficulty: And the Lord said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

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


rate difficulty: Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set.

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


rate difficulty: and a servant of the Lord should never quarrel. They ought, on the contrary, to be courteous to everyone, skillful teachers, and forbearing.

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


simplify: Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses.

So they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to make their strength less by the weight of their work. And they made store-towns for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.


rate difficulty: Now the husband was a long time in coming, and they all went to sleep.

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


simplify: So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.

So he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood.


simplify: And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

Then Jacob took a stone and put it up as a pillar.


rate difficulty: `And it hath become a charge to you, until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole assembly of the company of Israel have slaughtered it between the evenings;

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


simplify: Arise, let us be going: behold, he that betrayeth me is at hand.

Get up, let us be going; see, he who gives me up is near.


rate difficulty: The kings of the earth set themselves in array, And the rulers were gathered together, Against the Lord, and against his Anointed:

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


simplify: For she said, If I touch but his garments, I shall be made whole.

For she said, If I may only put my hand on his robe, I will be made well.


rate difficulty: I have known a man in Christ, fourteen years ago--whether in the body I have not known, whether out of the body I have not known, God hath known--such an one being caught away unto the third heaven;

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


rate difficulty: What--dost thou boast thyself in valleys? Flowed hath thy valley, O backsliding daughter, Who is trusting in her treasures: Who doth come in unto me?

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


simplify: And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court.

And under these rooms was the way in from the east side, as one goes into them from the outer square at the head of the outer wall.


rate difficulty: And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

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


simplify: he who is saying, in the light he is, and his brother is hating, in the darkness he is till now;

The person who says that they are in the light, and yet hates others, is in the darkness even now.


simplify: Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.

The man to whom I refer has been sufficiently punished by the penalty inflicted by the majority of you;


simplify: for which things’ sake cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience:

Because of which the wrath of God comes on those who go against his orders;


rate difficulty: Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.

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


simplify: Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.

Fourteen years afterwards I went up to Jerusalem again with Barnabas, and I took Titus also with me.


simplify: And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.

And Balaam said to Balak, Make me here seven altars and get ready seven oxen and seven male sheep.


rate difficulty: For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness.

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


rate difficulty: and ye have taken them for inheritance to your sons after you, to occupy <FI>for<Fi> a possession; to the age ye lay service upon them, but upon your brethren, the sons of Israel, one with another, thou dost not rule over him with rigour.

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


simplify: They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans.

So they, having given their witness and made clear the word of the Lord, went back to Jerusalem, giving the good news on their way in a number of the small towns of Samaria.


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his minister Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the Tent.

And the Lord had talk with Moses face to face, as a man may have talk with his friend. And when Moses came back to the tents, his servant, the young man Joshua, the son of Nun, did not come away from the Tent.


simplify: Thou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast sinned against thy soul.

You have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul.


simplify: For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;

For God is my witness, whose servant I am in spirit in the good news of his Son, that you are at all times in my memory and in my prayers,


rate difficulty: And the princes said unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; that none may know where ye are.

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


simplify: For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:

There are, indeed, many unruly persons — great talkers who deceive themselves, principally converts from Judaism,


simplify: And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

And orders were given them not to put them to death, but to give them great pain for five months: and their pain was as the pain from the wound of a scorpion.


rate difficulty: So as to set on the dust a defence, And on a rock of the valleys a covering.

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


simplify: But thou, son of man, behold, they shall lay bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them:

But see, O son of man, I will put bands on you, prisoning you in them, and you will not go out among them:


simplify: For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but to do that which is good is not.

For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.


rate difficulty: There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.

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


simplify: Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? behold, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.

See, the Lord God is my helper; who will give a decision against me? truly, all of them will become old like a robe; they will be food for the worm.


simplify: Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.

Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.


simplify: and Beth-peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth,

And Beth-peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth;


rate difficulty: Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,

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


rate difficulty: Who is she, looking down as the morning light, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, who is to be feared like an army with flags?

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


rate difficulty: except for his kin, that is near unto him, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,

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


simplify: of these things be careful; in these things be, that thy advancement may be manifest in all things;

Practice these things, devote yourself to them, so that your progress may be plain to everyone.


simplify: And God is able to make all grace abound unto you; that ye, having always all sufficiency in everything, may abound unto every good work:

And God is able to give you all grace in full measure; so that ever having enough of all things, you may be full of every good work:


simplify: And when they came unto the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.

And when they came to the grain-floor of Chidon, Uzza put out his hand to keep the ark in its place, for the oxen were slipping.


simplify: leave there thy gift before the altar, and go--first be reconciled to thy brother, and then having come bring thy gift.

leave your gift there, before the altar, go and be reconciled to them, first, then come and present your gift.


rate difficulty: And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun:

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


rate difficulty: and the word of the Lord was spread abroad through all the region.


simplify: For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

It is better that you should suffer, if that should be God’s will, for doing right, than for doing wrong.


rate difficulty: And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.


rate difficulty: And I will send it out, says the Lord of armies, and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of him who takes a false oath by my name: and it will be in his house, causing its complete destruction, with its woodwork and its stones.


simplify: He shall dwell on high; his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.

He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.


rate difficulty: Lo, I pray thee, I have opened my mouth, My tongue hath spoken in the palate.

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


simplify: But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire.


simplify: For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

Hushai said further, You have knowledge of your father and his men, that they are men of war, and that their feelings are bitter, like those of a bear in the field whose young ones have been taken from her: and your father is a man of war, and will not take his night's rest with the people;


rate difficulty: Thus saith the Lord God; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.

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


rate difficulty: And Rehoboam went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman. And Abijam his son became king in his place.

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


rate difficulty: Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.

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


rate difficulty: insomuch that unto the sick were carried away from his body handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out.

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


simplify: (Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hid it;

(The things which wise men have got from their fathers, and have not kept secret from us;


rate difficulty: The words of a wise man's mouth are sweet to all, but the lips of a foolish man are his destruction.

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


rate difficulty: These two things are befallen thee, who shall bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort thee?

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


rate difficulty: then having fasted, and having prayed, and having laid the hands on them, they sent <FI>them<Fi> away.

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


rate difficulty: Pridegoethbefore destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.

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


rate difficulty: And thus said Shimei as he cursed: Away, away, thou man of blood and man of Belial!

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


simplify: those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.

Forty-five thousand, six hundred and fifty of the tribe of Gad were numbered.


simplify: Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Jehovah, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.

Now it is my purpose to make an agreement with the Lord, the God of Israel, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from us.


rate difficulty: Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother.


simplify: For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

For we will not make comparison of ourselves with some of those who say good things about themselves: but these, measuring themselves by themselves, and making comparison of themselves with themselves, are not wise.


simplify: For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.

For I give witness of him that he has undergone much trouble for you and for those in Laodicea and in Hierapolis.


rate difficulty: How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

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


rate difficulty: For law works wrath; but where no law is neither [is there] transgression.


rate difficulty: then he shall confess his sin which he hath done: and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him in respect of whom he hath been guilty.

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


simplify: And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

And he went up and down among the lions and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.


simplify: Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.

For this cause the Lord took away from Israel head and tail, high and low, in one day.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah plagueth the people, because they made the calf which Aaron made.

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


rate difficulty: The guide to life you put to death! But God raised him from the dead — and of that we are ourselves witnesses.

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


simplify: And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judea which were in Christ:

And the churches of Judaea which were in Christ still had no knowledge of my face or person:


simplify: If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.

If a man is taken in the act of going in to a married woman, the two of them, the man as well as the woman, are to be put to death: so you are to put away the evil from Israel.


rate difficulty: and he hath taken the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and hath dipped them in the blood of the slaughtered bird, and in the running water, and hath sprinkled upon the house seven times.

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


rate difficulty: Then the king said to me, What is your desire? So I made prayer to the God of heaven.


rate difficulty: So in the half light they got up to go to the tents of Aram; but when they came to the outer line of tents, there was no one there.

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


rate difficulty: A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.


simplify: But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts.

“What did you go out into the wilderness to look at? A reed waving in the wind? If not, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in rich clothing? Why, those who are accustomed to fine clothes and luxury live in royal palaces.


simplify: The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.

The earth is shaking with the noise of their fall; their cry is sounding in the Red Sea.


simplify: But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,

But there were certain of the scribes seated there, and reasoning in their hearts,


simplify: Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

Now when she saw that her hope was made foolish and gone, she took another of her little ones and made him into a young lion.


simplify: The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.

The tents of the Gershonites are to be placed at the back of the House, to the west.


rate difficulty: Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, Who clothed you in scarlet delicately, Who put ornaments of gold upon your apparel.

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


simplify: The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; How much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind!

The offering of evil-doers is disgusting: how much more when they give it with an evil purpose!


simplify: And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came near to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that Jehovah will take away thy master from thy head to-day? And he answered, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.

And at Jericho the sons of the prophets came up to Elisha and said to him, Has it been made clear to you that the Lord is going to take away your master from over you today? And he said in answer, Yes, I have knowledge of it: say no more.


simplify: And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.

Then the king got up in the night and said to his servants, This is my idea of what the Aramaeans have done to us. They have knowledge that we are without food; and so they have gone out of their tents, and are waiting secretly in the open country, saying, When they come out of the town, we will take them living and get into the town.


simplify: Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.

Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and put his army in position against Thebez and took it.


rate difficulty: And Abimelech, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phichol the captain of his host, went to him from Gerar.

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


rate difficulty: And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon and its suburbs, Geba and its suburbs,


simplify: And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings upon the four corners that were in the four feet thereof.

And he made four gold rings, and put the rings at the angles of its four feet.


simplify: And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

And Jehoash, king of Israel, made Amaziah, king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, son of Ahaziah, prisoner at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and had the wall of Jerusalem pulled down from the doorway of Ephraim to the door in the angle, four hundred cubits.


rate difficulty: And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Uzzah; andGod smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark ofGod.

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


rate difficulty: Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:

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


simplify: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

and the real circumcision is the circumcision of the heart, a spiritual and not a literal thing. Such a person wins praise from God, though not from people.


simplify: Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.


rate difficulty: And Abner saith to him, `Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and seize for thee one of the youths, and take to thee his armour;' and Asahel hath not been willing to turn aside from after him.

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


simplify: Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

Surely, friends, you know (for I am speaking to people who know what law means) that law has power over a person only as long as they lives.


simplify: (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:)

(But one tribe will be his, because of my servant David, and because of Jerusalem, the town which, out of all the tribes of Israel, I have made mine,)


rate difficulty: but ye <FI>are<Fi> not so, but he who is greater among you--let him be as the younger; and he who is leading, as he who is ministering;


rate difficulty: “From others,” answered Peter. “Well then,” continued Jesus, “their sons go free.

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


simplify: yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest she wear me out by her continual coming.

Because this widow is a trouble to me, I will give her her right; for if not, I will be completely tired out by her frequent coming.


simplify: And the Lord said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.

And the Lord had not said that the name of Israel was to be taken away from the earth; but he gave them a saviour in Jeroboam, the son of Joash.


rate difficulty: I have indeed trained, I have strengthened their arms, but they imagine mischief against me.

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


rate difficulty: I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.

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


rate difficulty: while Paul chose Silas for his companion and, after he had been committed by the followers to the gracious care of the Lord,

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


simplify: And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.

Then they made another water-hole, and there was a fight about that, so he gave it the name of Sitnah.


simplify: All the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their meat offering: and the kids of the goats for sin offering twelve.

All the oxen, for the burned offering were twelve, the male sheep twelve, the he-lambs of the first year twelve, with their meal offering; and the males of the goats for sin-offering twelve;


simplify: But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

But if the Spirit of him who made Jesus come again from the dead is in you, he who made Christ Jesus come again from the dead will in the same way, through his Spirit which is in you, give life to your bodies which now are under the power of death.


rate difficulty: Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

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


rate difficulty: and having gone through those parts, and having exhorted them with many words, he came to Greece;

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


simplify: And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

Now the Philistines had come, and had gone out in every direction in the valley of Rephaim.


rate difficulty: for, though I am conscious of nothing against myself, that does not prove me innocent. It is the Lord who is my judge.


simplify: But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him.


rate difficulty: Whoso is walking righteously, And is speaking uprightly, Kicking against gain of oppressions, Shaking his hands from taking hold on a bribe, Stopping his ear from hearing of blood, And shutting his eyes from looking on evil,

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


simplify: At that season Jesus went on the sabbath day through the grainfields; and his disciples were hungry and began to pluck ears and to eat.

At that time Jesus went through the fields on the Sabbath day; and his disciples, being in need of food, were taking the heads of grain.


rate difficulty: And Rachel said, I have had a great fight with my sister, and I have overcome her: and she gave the child the name Naphtali.

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


rate difficulty: all the oxen for the burnt-offering twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the he-lambs a year old twelve, and their meal-offering; and the males of the goats for a sin-offering twelve;

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


rate difficulty: Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto them: Behold, [it is] I, and I will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the Lord came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.

And when the ark of the agreement of the Lord came into the town of David, Michal, the daughter of Saul, looking out of the window, saw King David dancing and playing; and to her mind he seemed foolish.


rate difficulty: And his hosts, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.

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


rate difficulty: And he answered and said unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath food, let him do likewise.

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


simplify: but by equality: your abundance being a supply at this present time for their want, that their abundance also may become a supply for your want; that there may be equality:

But so that things may be equal; that from those things of which you have more than enough at the present time their need may be helped, and that if you are in any need they may be a help to you in the same way, making things equal.


rate difficulty: Yes, and all whose purpose is to be living in the knowledge of God in Christ Jesus, will be cruelly attacked.


simplify: because they obeyed not the voice of Jehovah their God, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it.

Because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord their God, but went against his agreement, even against everything ordered by Moses, the servant of the Lord, and they did not give ear to it or do it.


rate difficulty: Honour me doth the beast of the field, Dragons and daughters of an ostrich, For I have given in a wilderness waters, Floods in a desolate place, To give drink to My people--My chosen.

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


simplify: Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.

Now I am pleased to see that you keep me in memory in all things, and that you give attention to the teaching which was handed down from me to you.


simplify: Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they of Israel? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.


simplify: And it shall be, when ye are passed over the Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaster them with plaster.

And when you have gone over Jordan, you are to put up these stones, as I have said to you today, in Mount Ebal, and have them coated with building-paste.


rate difficulty: and it cometh to pass when Jacob hath seen Rachel, daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the flock of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob cometh nigh and rolleth the stone from off the mouth of the well, and watereth the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

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


simplify: And they were left, to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.

For the purpose of testing Israel by them, to see if they would give ear to the orders of the Lord, which he had given to their fathers by the hand of Moses.


rate difficulty: So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:

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


simplify: no wallet for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.

Take no bag for your journey and do not take two coats or shoes or a stick: for the workman has a right to his food.


simplify: And all the multitudes were amazed, and said, `Is this the Son of David?'

At this all the people were astounded. “Is it possible that this is the son of David?” they exclaimed.


simplify: I commend unto you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church that is at Cenchreæ:

It is my desire to say a good word for Phoebe, who is a servant of the church in Cenchreae:


simplify: And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.

And if the person is from one month to five years old, then the value for a male will be five shekels of silver, and for a female three shekels.


simplify: It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

It is in my power to do you damage: but the God of your father came to me this night, saying, Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob.


rate difficulty: And they took that which Micah had made, and the priest that he had had, and came upon Laish, upon a people quiet and secure; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burned the city with fire.

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


rate difficulty: `Because they have forsaken Me, and bow themselves to Ashtoreth, god<FI> dess<Fi> of the Zidonians, to Chemosh god of Moab, and to Milcom god of the sons of Ammon, and have not walked in My ways, to do that which <FI>is<Fi> right in Mine eyes, and My statutes and My judgments, like David his father.

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


simplify: Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:

What we are specially guarding against is that any fault should be found with us in regard to our administration of this charitable fund;


rate difficulty: For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

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


simplify: Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.

It is not that I am anxious for your gifts, but I am anxious to see the abundant return that will be placed to your account. I have enough of everything, and to spare.


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.


simplify: And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,


simplify: And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

And there were windows in it and in the covered way all round, like the other windows: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.


simplify: The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad.


simplify: What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?

What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours?


rate difficulty: His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the fury of the Almighty.

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


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?


rate difficulty: And Ben-Hadad sendeth unto him, and saith, `Thus do the gods to me, and thus do they add, if the dust of Samaria suffice for handfuls for all the people who <FI>are<Fi> at my feet.'

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


simplify: And from Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.

And from Tebah and Berothai, towns of Hadadezer, King David took a great store of brass.


rate difficulty: then the priest shall come in and look; and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean.

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


rate difficulty: Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: Also our couch is green.

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


rate difficulty: for He hath rent Israel from the house of David, and they make Jeroboam son of Nebat king, and Jeroboam driveth Israel from after Jehovah, and hath caused them to sin a great sin,


rate difficulty: And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.


rate difficulty: And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

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


rate difficulty: And there was the glory of the God of Israel coming from the way of the east: and his voice was like the sound of great waters, and the earth was shining with his glory.


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

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


rate difficulty: And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.


rate difficulty: for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,


simplify: And David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Beth-lehem.

At that time David had taken cover in the strong place, and an armed force of the Philistines was in Beth-lehem.


simplify: And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the apostles with him.

And when the time had come, he took his seat, and the Apostles with him.


rate difficulty: Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.

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


rate difficulty: and a bullock and a ram for a peace-offering, to sacrifice before Jehovah; and an oblation mingled with oil; for to-day Jehovah will appear to you.


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, on the morrow, that Moses saith unto the people, `Ye--ye have sinned a great sin, and now I go up unto Jehovah, if so be I atone for your sin.'

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


simplify: This is the inheritance of the children of Gad after their families, the cities, and their villages.

This is the heritage of the children of Gad by their families, with its towns and its unwalled places


rate difficulty: For by me do thy days multiply, And added to thee are years of life.

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


simplify: Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof alike.

It will be your food, like the gazelle and the roe; the unclean and the clean may take of it.


rate difficulty: And he spake to them many things in parables, saying, Behold, the sower went forth to sow;

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


rate difficulty: that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

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


simplify: Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.

Now when Laban overtook him, Jacob had put up his tent in the hill-country; and Laban and his brothers put up their tents in the hill-country of Gilead.


rate difficulty: this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like,

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


simplify: The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.

The same field which Abraham got from the children of Heth: there Abraham was put to rest with Sarah, his wife.


simplify: and ye--ye did become imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

And you yourselves began to follow, not only our example, but the Master’s also; and, in spite of much suffering, you welcomed the message with a joy inspired by the Holy Spirit,


simplify: and he brought near the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zerahites: and he brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man; and Zabdi was taken:

Then he made Judah come forward, and the family of the Zerahites was taken; and he made the family of the Zerahites come forward man by man; and Zabdi was taken;


rate difficulty: And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest.

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


rate difficulty: Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.

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


rate difficulty: And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How did the fig tree immediately wither away?

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


rate difficulty: And I pass over by thee, and I see thee, And lo, thy time <FI>is<Fi> a time of loves, And I spread My skirt over thee, And I cover thy nakedness, And I swear to thee, and come in to a covenant with thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And thou dost become Mine.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 10 | difficulty: hard


simplify: But if thou say unto me, We trust in Jehovah our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?

And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God; is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar?


simplify: And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and 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.”


simplify: And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.

And in them they put all the offerings and the tenths and the holy things, keeping nothing back, and over them was Conaniah the Levite, with Shimei his brother second to him.


rate difficulty: And all the people, answering together, said, Whatever the Lord has said we will do. And Moses took back to the Lord the words of the people.

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


simplify: When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

When I say, In my bed I will have comfort, there I will get rest from my disease;


rate difficulty: And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baal-Tamar; and the ambush of Israel rushed forth out of their place, out of the meadows of Geba.

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


simplify: And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.

And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.


rate difficulty: And a great multitude of the people, and of women who wailed and lamented him, followed him.


rate difficulty: Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt come unto the priests, the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall declare unto thee the sentence of judgment;

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


rate difficulty: The way of the just is uprightness: thou that art upright dost direct the path of the just.


rate difficulty: Talk no more so exceeding proudly; Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth; For Jehovah is a God of knowledge, And by him actions are weighed.


rate difficulty: And through covetousness, with well-turned words, will they make merchandise of you: for whom judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction slumbers not.


simplify: but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.

And Esau was hated, and I sent destruction on his mountains, and gave his heritage to the beasts of the waste land.


rate difficulty: And the priests, and the Levites, and [some] of the people, and the singers, and the doorkeepers, and the Nethinim dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

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


simplify: Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and peoples, which thou didst allot after their portions: so they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

And you gave them kingdoms and peoples, making distribution to them in every part of the land: so they took for their heritage the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og, king of Bashan.


rate difficulty: The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.


rate difficulty: Every day do I die, by the glorying of you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord:


simplify: And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer’s inkhorn by his side;

And the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the winged ones on which it was resting, to the doorstep of the house. And crying out to the man clothed in linen who had the writer's inkpot at his side,


simplify: And he shall come, and shall smite the land of Egypt; such as are for death shall be given to death, and such as are for captivity to captivity, and such as are for the sword to the sword.

And he will come and overcome the land of Egypt; those who are for death will be put to death, those who are to be prisoners will be made prisoners, and those who are for the sword will be given to the sword.


simplify: and immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens dividing, and the Spirit as a dove coming down upon him;

Just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens split open and the Spirit coming down to him like a dove,


simplify: But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

No, it is a divine philosophy that we teach, one concerned with the hidden purpose of God — that long hidden philosophy which God, before time began, destined for our glory.


simplify: And they journeyed from Oboth, and encamped at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.

And journeying on again from Oboth, they put up their tents in Iye-abarim, in the waste land before Moab looking east.


simplify: And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the word of the Lord;

About the family of the king of Judah. Give ear to the word of the Lord;


simplify: And these be the names of those that were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,

These are the names of those whose birth took place in Jerusalem: Shammua and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon


simplify: And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:

And there you are to take your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up to the Lord, and the offerings of your oaths, and those which you give freely from the impulse of your hearts, and the first births among your herds and your flocks;


simplify: Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?

You are my brothers, my bone and my flesh; why are you the last to get the king back again?


simplify: Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages:

Ain, Rimmon, and Ether and Ashan; four towns with their unwalled places;


rate difficulty: And he put upon him the vest and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the cloak, and put the ephod on him, and he girded him with the girdle of the ephod, and fastened the ephod on him.

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


simplify: And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:

And on the vine were three branches; and it seemed as if it put out buds and flowers, and from them came grapes ready for cutting.


simplify: And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt-offerings. Now Jehu had appointed him fourscore men without, and said, If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, he that letteth him go, his life shall be for the life of him.

Then they went in to make offerings and burned offerings. Now Jehu had put eighty men outside, and said to them, If any man whom I give into your hands gets away, the life of him who lets him go will be the price of his life.


simplify: And Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.

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


simplify: And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the Lord of hosts, their God,

And the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, ruler of Judah, was moved by the Lord, as was the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the rest of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the Lord of armies, their God.


simplify: Again he measured a thousand, and caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the loins.

And again, measuring a thousand cubits, he made me go through the waters which came up to my knees. Again, measuring a thousand, he made me go through the waters up to the middle of my body.


rate difficulty: And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said unto them, These are the words which the Lord hath commanded, that ye should do them.

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


simplify: But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.


rate difficulty: But when thou makest a feast, call poor, crippled, lame, blind:

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


simplify: Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Jehovah our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.

Why are we seated doing nothing? come together, and let us go to the walled towns, and let destruction overtake us there, for the Lord our God has sent destruction on us, and given us bitter water for our drink, because we have done evil against the Lord.


simplify: And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him,

And for the space of two years, Paul was living in the house of which he had the use, and had talk with all those who went in to see him,


rate difficulty: And, now, please, look upon me, Even to your face do I lie?

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


rate difficulty: Lo, a flood oppresseth--he doth not haste, He is confident though Jordan Doth come forth unto his mouth.

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


rate difficulty: Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all fours, or whatsoever hath many feet, even all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination.

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


rate difficulty: And that the world which then was came to an end through the overflowing of the waters.

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


rate difficulty: And the Levites have not numbered themselves in the midst of the sons of Israel, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.

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


rate difficulty: For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith Jehovah.

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


simplify: Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?

Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena and Ivvah? have they kept Samaria out of my hands?


simplify: `And whenever they may persecute you in this city, flee to the other, for verily I say to you, ye may not have completed the cities of Israel till the Son of Man may come.

But, when they persecute you in one town, escape to the next; for, I tell you, you will not have come to the end of the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.


simplify: And the firepans, and the basins, that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.

And the fire-trays and the basins; the gold of the gold vessels and the silver of the silver vessels, were all taken away by the captain of the armed men.


simplify: and of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.

And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.


rate difficulty: And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?

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


rate difficulty: Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon fidelity? Thou hast smitten them, but they are not sore; thou hast consumed them, they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

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


simplify: And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.

And Moses was trained in all the wisdom of Egypt, and was great in his words and works.


simplify: And he brought forth the people that were therein, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. And thus did David unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and axes. And this he did to all the towns of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people went back to Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

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


simplify: Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.

Timothy, my fellow worker, sends you his greetings, and Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my countrymen, send theirs.


rate difficulty: Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.


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

Say to the children of Israel: If a man has an unclean flow from his flesh, it will make him unclean.


simplify: Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?

Were you present at the secret meeting of God? and have you taken all wisdom for yourself?


simplify: in the law it hath been written, that, `With other tongues and with other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear Me, saith the Lord;'

It is said in the law —  ‘In strange tongues and by the lips of strangers will I speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.’


rate difficulty: and the dead by the plague are four and twenty thousand.

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


rate difficulty: But even Moses made it clear that the dead come back to life, saying, in the story of the burning thorn-tree, The Lord, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:

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


rate difficulty: and Saul turneth him aside from him, and appointeth him to himself head of a thousand, and he goeth out an cometh in, before the people.

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


rate difficulty: My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,

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


rate difficulty: Me He hath led, and causeth to go <FI>in<Fi> darkness, and without light.

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


simplify: of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.

Of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.


rate difficulty: See, the days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send times of great need on the land, not need of food or desire for water, but for hearing the words of the Lord.

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


simplify: And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.

and, when the blood of your martyr, Stephen, was being shed, I was myself standing by, approving of his death, and took charge of the clothes of those who were murdering him.


simplify: And there passed by Midianites, merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt.

And some traders from Midian went by; so pulling Joseph up out of the hole, they gave him to the Ishmaelites for twenty bits of silver, and they took him to Egypt.


simplify: Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Then give no attention to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God is testing you, to see if all the love of your heart and soul is given to him.


simplify: And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt;

And when his words came to the ears of Jehoiakim the king and all his men of war and his captains, the king would have put him to death; but Uriah, hearing of it, was full of fear and went in flight into Egypt:


simplify: But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be in danger of being judged; and he who says to his brother, Raca, will be in danger from the Sanhedrin; and whoever says, You foolish one, will be in danger of the hell of fire.


simplify: Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchi–shua: and the names of his two daughters were these; the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:

Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan and Ishvi and Malchi-shua; and these are the names of his daughters: the older was named Merab and the younger Michal;


rate difficulty: And burned the house of the Lord, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:


simplify: That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;

For through union with him you were enriched in every way — in your power to preach, and in your knowledge of the truth;


rate difficulty: Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.

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


simplify: And he said, They were my brethren, the sons of my mother: as Jehovah liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.

And he said, They were my brothers, my mother's sons: by the life of the Lord, if you had kept them safe, I would not put you to death.


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

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


rate difficulty: and by his hand have the Tekoites strengthened, and their honourable ones have not brought in their neck to the service of their Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And when the ark of the Lord came into the town of David, Michal, Saul's daughter, looking out of the window, saw King David dancing and jumping before the Lord; and to her mind he seemed foolish.

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


simplify: And this is the law of the meal-offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before Jehovah, before the altar.

And this is the law for the meal offering: it is to be offered to the Lord before the altar by the sons of Aaron.


simplify: Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.

Then says he to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: keep watch with me here.


simplify: And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days.

And he who is to be made clean will have his clothing washed and his hair cut and have a bath, and he will be clean. And after that he will come back to the tent-circle; but he is to keep outside his tent for seven days.


simplify: Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

Son of man, make a song of grief for the king of Tyre, and say to him, This is what the Lord has said: You are all-wise and completely beautiful;


rate difficulty: For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.


simplify: And she said, Behold, thy sister-in-law is gone back unto her people, and unto her god: return thou after thy sister-in-law.

And Naomi said, See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods: go back after your sister-in-law.


simplify: But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men edification, and exhortation, and consolation.

But the word of the prophet gives men knowledge and comfort and strength.


simplify: Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

So now put every male child to death, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man.


rate difficulty: Can a man be profitable toGod? surely it is unto himself that the wise man is profitable.

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


rate difficulty: And the crowds who went before him and who followed cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; blessed [be] he who comes in the name of [the] Lord; hosanna in the highest.

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


simplify: And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

And then he added: “Take care to keep yourselves free from every form of covetousness; for even in the height of their prosperity a person’s true life does not depend on what they have.”


rate difficulty: Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,


simplify: And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look upon. And Jehovah said, Arise, anoint him; for this is he.

So he sent and made him come in. Now he had red hair and beautiful eyes and pleasing looks. And the Lord said, Come, put the oil on him, for this is he.


simplify: Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel:

Now give up those good-for-nothing persons in Gibeah so that we may put them to death, clearing away the evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not give ear to the voice of their brothers, the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: And as Jesus passed by from thence, he saw a man, called Matthew, sitting at the place of toll: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.

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


simplify: And Moses spake to the children of Israel; and they brought forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. And the children of Israel did as Jehovah commanded Moses.

And Moses said these words to the children of Israel, and they took the man who had been cursing outside the tent-circle and had him stoned. The children of Israel did as the Lord gave orders to Moses.


simplify: and others mocking said, --`They are full of sweet wine;'

But there were some who said with a sneer: “They have had too much new wine.”


rate difficulty: And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.

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


rate difficulty: and Jehud, and Beneberak, and Gath-Rimmon,

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


rate difficulty: but also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever; no, not when Jehovah hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth.

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


simplify: Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside thereof may become clean also.

You blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may become equally clean.


rate difficulty: But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a tutor.

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