rate difficulty: And, when Herod had made further search for him and failed to find him, he closely questioned the Guard, and ordered them away to execution. Then he went down from Judea to stay at Caesarea.


simplify: When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

When he had been taken off the road, all the people went on after Joab in search of Sheba, the son of Bichri.


simplify: Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: be of good courage, and do it.

Up, now! for this is your business, and we are with you; take heart and do it.


rate difficulty: And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lances, till the blood gushed out upon them.

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rate difficulty: By me kings reign, and princes decree righteousness,

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


simplify: added also this to all, that he shut up John in the prison.

crowned them all by shutting John up in prison.


simplify: And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it:

And they are to take a blue cloth, covering with it the light-support with its lights and its instruments and its trays and all the oil vessels which are used for it:


rate difficulty: and he cleaveth to Jehovah, he hath not turned aside from after Him, and keepeth His commands that Jehovah commanded Moses.

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


simplify: Of the sons of Nebo; Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jadau, and Joel, Benaiah.

Of the sons of Nebo, Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, and Joel, Benaiah.


rate difficulty: And Manoah maketh entreaty unto Jehovah, and saith, `O, my Lord, the man of God whom Thou didst send, let him come in, I pray thee, again unto us, and direct us what we do to the youth who is born.'

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


simplify: For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

For, many as were the promises of God, in Christ is the ‘Yes’ that fulfills them. Therefore, through Christ again, let the ‘Amen’ rise, through us, to the glory of God.


simplify: and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that thou Jehovah art in the midst of this people; for thou Jehovah art seen face to face, and thy cloud standeth over them, and thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.

And they will give the news to the people of this land: they have had word that you, Lord, are present with this people, letting yourself be seen face to face, and that your cloud is resting over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.


rate difficulty: Anyone touching the body of a dead man without making himself clean in this way, makes the House of the Lord unclean; and that man will be cut off from Israel: because the water was not put on him, he will be unclean; his unclean condition is unchanged.

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


rate difficulty: And they have brought all your brethren out of all the nations, A present to Jehovah, On horses, and on chariot, and on litters, And on mules, and on dromedaries, Unto My holy mountain Jerusalem, said Jehovah, As the sons of Israel bring the present in a clean vessel, Into the house of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come with might, and his arm shall rule for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompence before him.

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Ezrah: Jether and Mered and Epher and Jalon; and these are the sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, the wife of Mered. And she became the mother of Miriam and Shammai and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa.

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


simplify: And having come near, they awoke him, saying, `Master, master, we perish;' and he, having arisen, rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and there came a calm,

So the disciples came and roused him. “Sir, Sir,” they cried, “we are lost!” Jesus rose and rebuked the wind and the rushing waves, and they fell, and a calm followed.


rate difficulty: Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,

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


simplify: Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of Jehovah; for there he offered the burnt-offerings, and the fat of the peace-offerings, because the brazen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt-offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat.

Then Solomon made holy the middle of the open square in front of the house of the Lord, offering the burned offerings there, and the fat of the peace-offerings; for there was not room on the brass altar which Solomon had made for all the burned offerings and the meal offerings and the fat.


rate difficulty: Do not go about saying untrue things among your people, or take away the life of your neighbour by false witness: I am the Lord.


rate difficulty: Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.


simplify: the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, for your knowing what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

that your minds may be so enlightened that you may realize the hope given by God’s call, the wealth of the glory of his heritage among Christ’s people,


rate difficulty: But the eyes of the evil-doers will be wasting away; their way of flight is gone, and their only hope is the taking of their last breath.


simplify: And now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master’s sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fortified city also, and armor;

Straight away, when you get this letter, seeing that your master's sons are with you, and that you have carriages and horses and a walled town and arms;


simplify: And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.

And David sent to Joab saying, Send Uriah the Hittite to me. And Joab sent Uriah to David.


simplify: And the burden of the Lord shall ye mention no more: for every man’s word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the Lord of hosts our God.

And you will no longer put people in mind of the word of weight of the Lord: for every man's word will be a weight on himself; for the words of the living God, of the Lord of armies, our God, have been twisted by you.


simplify: And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath Jehovah smitten us to-day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of Shiloh unto us, that it may come among us, and save us out of the hand of our enemies.

And when the people came back to their tents, the responsible men of Israel said, Why has the Lord let the Philistines overcome us today? Let us get the ark of the Lord's agreement here from Shiloh, so that it may be with us and give us salvation from the hands of those who are against us.


rate difficulty: also, his good deeds they have been saying before me, and my words they have been taking out to him; letters hath Tobiah sent to make me afraid.

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


simplify: And Ephah, Caleb’s concubine, bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez: and Haran begat Gazez.

And Ephah, Caleb's servant-wife, had Haran and Moza and Gazez; and Haran was the father of Gazez.


rate difficulty: And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,


rate difficulty: Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us.

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


rate difficulty: Hypocrites! It was well said by Isaiah when he prophesied about you —


rate difficulty: as the days wherein the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.

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


simplify: and because he was of the same trade, he abode with them, and they wrought; for by their trade they were tentmakers.

And because he was of the same trade, he was living with them, and they did their work together; for by trade they were tent-makers.


simplify: Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

You will come to your death by the sword; and I will be your judge in the land of Israel; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.


simplify: And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:

And if you will not let them go, see, I will send frogs into every part of your land:


simplify: And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory of the Lord appeared unto all the congregation.

And Korah made all the people come together against them to the door of the Tent of meeting: and the glory of the Lord was seen by all the people.


simplify: And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.

But if you have no delight in her, you are to let her go wherever she will; you may not take a price for her as if she was your property, for you have made use of her for your pleasure.


rate difficulty: In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;

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


rate difficulty: without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,

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


rate difficulty: And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.

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


simplify: Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.

Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.


simplify: Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

See, I am waiting at the door and giving the sign; if my voice comes to any man's ears and he makes the door open, I will come in to him, and will take food with him and he with me.


rate difficulty: And it came about that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having gone through the higher country, came to Ephesus, where there were certain disciples:

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


simplify: And he said unto him also, Be thou also over five cities.

And he said, You will be ruler over five towns.


simplify: And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, these did the priests and the Levites bring up.

They took up the ark and the Tent of meeting and all the holy vessels which were in the Tent; all these the priests, the Levites, took up.


rate difficulty: And his servant Zimri, captain of half [his] chariots, conspired against him; and he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was the steward of his house in Tirzah;

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


rate difficulty: And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;

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


rate difficulty: and Absalom whom we anointed over us <FI>is<Fi> dead in battle, and now, why are ye silent--to bring back the king?'

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


rate difficulty: buried with him in baptism, in which ye have been also raised with [him] through faith of the working ofGod who raised him from among the dead.

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


simplify: Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in your virtue knowledge;

So, for this very cause, take every care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue,


rate difficulty: And--ships <FI>are<Fi> from the side of Chittim, And they have humbled Asshur, And they have humbled Eber, And it also for ever is perishing.'

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


simplify: And he built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor unto the walls of the ceiling: he built them for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.

And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room.


simplify: Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king’s high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.

Let us now go through your land: we will not go into field or vine-garden, or take the water of the springs; we will go by the highway, not turning to the right or to the left, till we have gone past the limits of your land.


simplify: saying, `What do ye think concerning the Christ? of whom is he son?' They say to him, `Of David.'

“What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” “David’s,” they said.


simplify: For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,

For last night an angel of the God to whom I belong, and whom I serve, stood by me, and said —


rate difficulty: declare the things that are to happen hereafter, that we may know that ye aregods; yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be astonished, and behold it together.

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


rate difficulty: and the king commandeth Hilkiah, and Ahikam son of Shaphan, and Abdon son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah, servant of the king, saying,

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


simplify: Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.

Let your eyes be lifted up, and see: they are all coming together to you: your sons will come from far, and your daughters taken with loving care.


simplify: And Pilate said to them, `Why--what evil did he?' and they cried out the more vehemently, `Crucify him;'

“Why, what harm has he done?” Pilate kept saying to them. But they shouted furiously: “Crucify him!”


rate difficulty: Is not before our eyes food cut off? From the house of our God joy and rejoicing?

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


simplify: Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nepthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand.

Of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand: of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand: of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand:


simplify: But if any man is ignorant, let him be ignorant.

But if any man is without knowledge, let him be so.


simplify: And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage.

And the brothers, when they had news of us, came out from town as far as Appii Forum and the Three Taverns to have a meeting with us: and Paul, seeing them, gave praise to God and took heart.


simplify: his oblation was 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;

His offering was 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: For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

From the top of the rocks I see him, looking down on him from the hills: it is a people made separate, not to be numbered among the nations.


simplify: that seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest they may turn, and the sins may be forgiven them.'

‘Though they have eyes, they may see without perceiving; and though they have ears, they may hear without understanding; otherwise some day they might turn and be forgiven.’


simplify: And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

And have given their gods to the fire: for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.


simplify: And when he had declared all these things unto them, he sent them to Joppa.

And having given them an account of everything, he sent them to Joppa.


simplify: When he is about to fill his belly, Godwill cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, And will rain it upon him while he is eating.

God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.


simplify: become offenceless, both to Jews and Greeks, and to the assembly of God;

Do not cause offense either to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God;


rate difficulty: From the time of John the Baptist to this very hour, the kingdom of heaven has been taken by force, and people using force have been seizing it.

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simplify: And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.

And they went, and it was as he had said: and they made the Passover ready.


rate difficulty: Let fifty days be numbered, to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you are to give a new meal offering to the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: then the proconsul having seen what hath come to pass, did believe, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.

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


simplify: And if they were all one member, where were the body?

And if they were all one part, where would the body be?


rate difficulty: But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: easy


simplify: being filled with the fruit of righteousness, that <FI>is<Fi> through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

bearing a rich harvest of that righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.


rate difficulty: For what profit has a man, if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

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


simplify: And, behold, a man of the company cried out, saying, Master, I beseech thee, look upon my son: for he is mine only child.

And just then a man in the crowd shouted out: “Teacher, I entreat you to look at my son, for he is my only child;


simplify: When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether the man were a Galilean.

Hearing this, Pilate asked if the man was a Galilean;


rate difficulty: And their land is full of silver and gold, and there is no end of their treasures: their land also is full of horses, and there is no end of their chariots.


simplify: And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

And the Lord God made a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had made.


rate difficulty: Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.

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


simplify: And it was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that gave heed unto me knew that it was the word of Jehovah.

And it was broken on that day: and the sheep-traders, who were watching me, were certain that it was the word of the Lord.


simplify: then cometh he unto his disciples, and saith to them, `Sleep on henceforth, and rest! lo, the hour hath come nigh, and the Son of Man is delivered up to the hands of sinners.

Then he came to the disciples, and said: “Sleep on now, and rest yourselves. Look - my time is close at hand, and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of wicked people.


rate difficulty: And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

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


rate difficulty: And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you:

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


simplify: That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?

He who made them go through the deep waters, like a horse in the waste land?


simplify: Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.

Now about things offered to images: we all seem to ourselves to have knowledge. Knowledge gives pride, but love gives true strength.


rate difficulty: And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake unto him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do after his saying? if not; speak thou.

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


simplify: In this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son--the only begotten--hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him;

The love of God was revealed to us by his sending his only Son into the world, so that we might find life through him.


rate difficulty: A man of great wrath will have to take his punishment: for if you get him out of trouble you will have to do it again.


simplify: Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they that were bidden were not worthy.

Then he said to his servants, The feast is ready but the guests were not good enough.


simplify: For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:

David, after obediently doing God’s will in his own time, ‘fell asleep and was laid by the side of his ancestors, and did undergo corruption;


simplify: For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?

All this is because of the wrongdoing of Jacob and the sins of the children of Israel. What is the wrongdoing of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?


rate difficulty: The righteousness of the perfect maketh right his way, And by his wickedness doth the wicked fall.

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


simplify: And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the Lord God of his fathers.

And in every town of Judah he made high places where perfumes were burned to other gods, awaking the wrath of the Lord, the God of his fathers.


simplify: And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul’s neck, and kissed him,

And they were all weeping, falling on Paul's neck and kissing him,


rate difficulty: Then he was aware of a voice which said — “Stand up, Peter, kill something, and eat.”

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


rate difficulty: I, Paul, add this greeting in my own handwriting.


simplify: But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? and they turned and said, Like as Jehovah of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.

But my words and my orders, which I gave to my servants the prophets, have they not overtaken your fathers? and turning back they said, As it was the purpose of the Lord of armies to do to us, in reward for our ways and our doings, so has he done.


simplify: So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.

So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.


simplify: And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.

All these he took, cutting them in two and putting one half opposite the other, but not cutting the birds in two.


simplify: And Jehovah delivered unto me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which Jehovah spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

And the Lord gave me the two stones with writing on them done by the finger of God: on them were recorded all the words which the Lord said to you on the mountain out of the heart of the fire, on the day of the great meeting.


rate difficulty: And they will be full of fear, and will no longer have faith in Ethiopia which was their hope, or in Egypt which was their glory.

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


simplify: And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings.

And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of the best meal mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes covered with oil, with their meal offering and drink offerings.


simplify: And in like manner a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side.

And in the same way, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, went by on the other side.


rate difficulty: And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.


simplify: Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.

But she came and gave him worship, saying, Help, Lord.


simplify: We made a raid upon the South of the Cherethites, and upon that which belongeth to Judah, and upon the South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.

We made an attack on the south part of the country of the Cherethites, and on the land which is Judah's, and on the south of Caleb; and we put Ziklag on fire.


simplify: And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the word that Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And when he thought thereon, he wept.

At that moment, for the second time, a cock crowed; and Peter remembered the words that Jesus had said to him — ‘Before a cock has crowed twice, you will disown me three times’;and, as he thought of it, he began to weep.


rate difficulty: but Jehovah, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, him shall ye fear, and unto him shall ye bow yourselves, and to him shall ye sacrifice:

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.

And Naaman said, Be good enough to take two talents. And forcing him to take them, he put two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and gave them to his two servants to take before him.


simplify: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.

Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.


simplify: Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of Jehovah:

For this cause, O keepers of the flock, give ear to the word of the Lord:


simplify: And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.

And all the seven days of the feast she went on weeping over him; and on the seventh day he gave her the answer, because she gave him no peace; and she sent word of it to the children of her people.


rate difficulty: And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

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


simplify: And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the Lord said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace.

Then he said, I saw all Israel wandering on the mountains like sheep without a keeper; and the Lord said, These have no master: let them go back, every man to his house in peace.


rate difficulty: So put yourselves under the authority, not for fear of wrath, but because you have the knowledge of what is right.

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


rate difficulty: Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain.

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


rate difficulty: For these words are the words of a promise — ‘About this time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.’

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


simplify: Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.

And she has not given up her loose ways from the time when she was in Egypt; for when she was young they were her lovers, and by them her young breasts were crushed, and they let loose on her their unclean desire.


rate difficulty: He draweth out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovereth in oppression their ear.

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


simplify: If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds’ tents.

If you have not knowledge, O most beautiful among women, go on your way in the footsteps of the flock, and give your young goats food by the tents of the keepers.


simplify: And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth part of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation.

And if it is an unclean beast, then the owner of it may give money to get it back, in agreement with the value fixed by you, by giving a fifth more; or if it is not taken back, let it be given for money in agreement with your valuing.


simplify: When the man went forth eastward with the line in his hand, he measured a thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the ankles.

And the man went out to the east with the line in his hand, and after measuring a thousand cubits, he made me go through the waters, which came over my feet.


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

So that in him you have wealth in all things, in word and in knowledge of every sort;


simplify: Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.

Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me.


simplify: And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came unto Cesarea to salute Festus.

Now when some days had gone by, King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea and went to see Festus.


simplify: And the fame of him went forth immediately to all the region, round about, of Galilee.

His fame spread at once in all directions, through the whole neighborhood of Galilee.


simplify: For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

This day there has been born to you, in the town of David, a Savior, who is Christ and Lord.


simplify: Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

The person, then, who knows what is right but fails to do it — that is sin in them.


simplify: And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

And crying out against God and against Moses, they said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to come to our death in the waste land? For there is no bread and no water, and this poor bread is disgusting to us.


rate difficulty: that they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.

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


simplify: And it shall be, when Jehovah shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanite, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee,

And when the Lord takes you into the land of Canaan, as he made his oath to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,


simplify: And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;

And the Lord said, Am I to keep back from Abraham the knowledge of what I do;


rate difficulty: Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

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


simplify: and saith, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God.

Who said, Cornelius, your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your offerings are kept in his memory.


rate difficulty: and bought hath been the field in this land of which ye are saying, A desolation it <FI>is<Fi> , without man and beast, it hath been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

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


rate difficulty: By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.

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


rate difficulty: And having knowledge of their thoughts he said to them, Every kingdom having division in itself is made waste, and every town or house having division in itself will come to destruction.

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


simplify: And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the Lord commanded me.

And turning round I came down from the mountain and put the stones in the ark which I had made; and there they are as the Lord gave me orders.


simplify: And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.

And Joseph's master took him and put him in prison, in the place where the king's prisoners were kept in chains, and he was there in the prison-house.


rate difficulty: Lo, Hanameel son of Shallum, thine uncle, is coming unto thee, saying, Buy for thee my field that <FI>is<Fi> in Anathoth, for thine <FI>is<Fi> the right of redemption--to buy.

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


simplify: And all that heard him were amazed, and said, Is not this he that in Jerusalem made havoc of them that called on this name? and he had come hither for this intent, that he might bring them bound before the chief priests.

And all those hearing him were full of wonder and said, Is not this the man who in Jerusalem was attacking all the worshippers of this name? and he had come here so that he might take them as prisoners before the chief priests.


rate difficulty: And when she had brought them near unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come, lie with me, my sister.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: Then Solomon came back [from] the high place at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tent of meeting, and reigned over Israel.

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


rate difficulty: and Ahiah, son of Ahitub, brother of I-Chabod, son of Phinehas son of Eli priest of Jehovah in Shiloh, bearing an ephod; and the people knew not that Jonathan hath gone.

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


simplify: And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their god is a god of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we: but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.

Then the king of Aram's servants said to him, Their god is a god of the hills; that is why they were stronger than we: but if we make an attack on them in the lowlands, we will certainly be stronger than they.


rate difficulty: and said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, and have hearkened to my voice in all that I commanded you.

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


rate difficulty: In the year of the death of king Ahaz was this burden:

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


rate difficulty: And they did not know that Joseph understood, for the interpreter was between them.

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


rate difficulty: Six days shall ye gather it; but on the seventh day is sabbath: on it there shall be none.

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


rate difficulty: And if you come with us, we will give you a part in whatever good the Lord does for us.

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


rate difficulty: Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the Lord?

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


simplify: For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;

For, see, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;


simplify: And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.

And Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's chief house-servant, and Susanna and a number of others, who gave him of their wealth for his needs.


simplify: Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for thy wares.

Tarshish did business with you because of the great amount of your wealth; they gave silver, iron, tin, and lead for your goods.


simplify: And Saul abode in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate-tree which is in Migron: and the people that were with him were about six hundred men;

And Saul was still waiting in the farthest part of Geba, under the fruit-tree in Migron: there were about six hundred men with him;


simplify: Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels: let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from the things that shall come upon thee.

But your mind is troubled by the number of your guides: let them now come forward for your salvation: the measurers of the heavens, the watchers of the stars, and those who are able to say from month to month what things are coming on you.


simplify: I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

I go in fear of all my pains; I am certain that I will not be free from sin in your eyes.


simplify: And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the Lord toward Israel.

And now you have come to take the place of your fathers, another generation of sinners, increasing the wrath of the Lord against Israel.


simplify: But Jesus perceiving their reasonings, answered and said unto them, Why reason ye in your hearts?

But Jesus, who had knowledge of their thoughts, said to them, Why are you reasoning in your hearts?


rate difficulty: and I hope that ye shall know that we--we are not disapproved of;


rate difficulty: and Absalom doth according to this thing to all Israel who come in for judgment unto the king, and Absalom stealeth the heart of the men of Israel.

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


simplify: Will ye speak unrighteously for God, And talk deceitfully for him?

Will you say in God's name what is not right, and put false words into his mouth?


rate difficulty: Perceive ye not, that whatsoever goeth into the mouth passeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?

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


simplify: And they understood none of these things; and this saying was hid from them, and they perceived not the things that were said.

But they did not take in the sense of any of these words, and what he said was not clear to them, and their minds were not able to see it.


simplify: Till I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet.

Till I put all those who are against you under your feet.


simplify: Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.

And I will put her on the coals so that she may be heated and her brass burned, so that what is unclean in her may become soft and her waste be completely taken away.


rate difficulty: And having risen thence, he doth come to the coasts of Judea, through the other side of the Jordan, and again do multitudes come together unto him, and, as he had been accustomed, again he was teaching them.

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


simplify: the things above mind ye, not the things upon the earth,

Fix your thoughts on the things that are above, not on those that are on earth.


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

For this man, in our opinion, is a cause of trouble, a maker of attacks on the government among Jews through all the empire, and a chief mover in the society of the Nazarenes:


rate difficulty: It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.

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


rate difficulty: And he that eateth of the carcass of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth the carcass of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.

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


rate difficulty: And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.

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


simplify: He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

And he said to him, What does the law say, in your reading of it?


rate difficulty: Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Moreover also I sware unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

And further, I gave my oath to them in the waste land, that I would not take them into the land which I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands;


rate difficulty: From Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, charged to strengthen the faith of God’s chosen people, and their knowledge of that truth which makes for godliness

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


simplify: Shall even one that hateth justice govern? And wilt thou condemn him that is righteous and mighty?—

How may a hater of right be a ruler? and will you say that the upright Ruler of all is evil?


simplify: Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

otherwise he might come suddenly and find you asleep.


simplify: and having been moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes, and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.

So Jesus, moved with compassion, touched their eyes, and immediately they recovered their sight, and followed him.


rate difficulty: For this is an infamy; yea, it is an iniquity [to be judged by] the judges:

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


rate difficulty: So be ready: for the Son of man is coming at a time when you are not looking for him.

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


rate difficulty: — And these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath and Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah. These are the sons of Basmath Esau's wife.

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


simplify: And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.

And as he might not be moved we did no more, saying, Let the purpose of God be done.


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

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


rate difficulty: The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.

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


simplify: But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

But evil acts of the flesh and all unclean things, or desire for others' property, let it not even be named among you, as is right for saints;


simplify: And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:

Then the men said to Lot, Are there any others of your family here? sons-in-law or sons or daughters, take them all out of this place;


rate difficulty: The mouth of a righteous [man] is a fountain of life; but the mouth of the wicked covereth violence.


rate difficulty: Now which, do you think, of these three men,” asked Jesus, “proved himself a neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers’ hands?”

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


simplify: Behold, the name of Jehovah cometh from far, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire;

See, the name of the Lord is coming from far, burning with his wrath, with thick smoke going up: his lips are full of passion, and his tongue is like a burning fire:


rate difficulty: And the word of Jehovah is unto Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

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


simplify: And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the Lord: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the Lord,

And the money which was measured out they gave regularly to those who were responsible for overseeing the work, and these gave it in payment to the woodworkers and the builders who were working on the house of the Lord,


simplify: Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.

Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traders of Asshur and all the Medes:


simplify: I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord, and by his fierce anger.

Looking, I saw that the fertile field was a waste, and all its towns were broken down before the Lord and before his burning wrath.


rate difficulty: Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

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


rate difficulty: And according to the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;

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


simplify: saying to them that are bound, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.

Saying to those who are in chains, Go free; to those who are in the dark, Come out into the light. They will get food by the way wherever they go, and have grass-lands on all the dry mountain-tops.


simplify: And as he was stretching him with the thongs, Paul said unto the centurion who was standing by, `A man, a Roman, uncondemned--is it lawful to you to scourge;'

But just as they had tied him up to be scourged, Paul said to the captain standing near: “Is it legal for you to scourge a Roman citizen, unconvicted?”


simplify: There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, Andyetare not washed from their filthiness.

There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.


simplify: And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

And will have him cut in two, and will give him a part in the fate of the false ones: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.


simplify: On that day the Lord magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.

That day the Lord made Joshua great in the eyes of all Israel; and all the days of his life they went in fear of him, as they had gone in fear of Moses.


rate difficulty: For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails: because their tails are like snakes, and have heads, and with them they give wounds.


simplify: Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.

Whoever there is among you of his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and take in hand the building of the house of the Lord, the God of Israel; he is the God who is in Jerusalem.


simplify: So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Jehovah: and they anointed David king over Israel.

So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and King David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel.


rate difficulty: And--he hath begotten a son, A burglar--a shedder of blood, And he hath made a brother of one of these,

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


simplify: To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;

showing mercy to our forefathers, And mindful of his sacred covenant.


simplify: And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:

And the priest will give orders for one of the birds to be put to death in a vessel made of earth, over flowing water.


simplify: for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification;

For God’s call to us does not permit of an impure life, but demands purity.


simplify: and gathered together unto him were many multitudes, so that he having gone into the boat did sit down, and all the multitude on the beach did stand,

such great crowds gathered around him, that he got into a boat, and sat in it, while all the people stood on the beach.


rate difficulty: and both straw and provender are for our asses, and also bread and wine there are for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man with thy servants; there is no lack of anything.'

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


rate difficulty: All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.


simplify: And he appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach,

And he took twelve to be with him, so that he might send them out as preachers,


rate difficulty: And as they led him away, they laid hold on a certain Simon, a Cyrenian, coming from the field, and put the cross upon him to bear it behind Jesus.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses saith, `Eat it to-day, for to-day <FI>is<Fi> a sabbath to Jehovah; to-day ye find it not in the field:

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


simplify: Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?

Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?


rate difficulty: And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these? And he said to me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.

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


simplify: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

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


simplify: If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house.


simplify: And he shall cut it into his pieces, with his head and his fat: and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:

And the offering is to be cut into its parts, with its head and its fat; and the priest is to put them in order on the wood which is on the fire on the altar:


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?

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


rate difficulty: `Come, and we turn back unto Jehovah, For He hath torn, and He doth heal us, He doth smite, and He bindeth us up.

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


simplify: Surely thou hast spoken in my hearing, And I have heard the voice ofthywords, saying,

But you said in my hearing, and your voice came to my ears:


simplify: and to esteem them very abundantly in love, because of their work; be at peace among yourselves;

Hold them in the very greatest esteem and affection for the sake of their work. Live at peace with one another.


rate difficulty: For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and all their princes gave him a staff, one staff for each prince according to their fathers' houses, twelve staves, and the staff of Aaron was among their staves.

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


rate difficulty: But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner’s men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.

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


simplify: Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation.


rate difficulty: Lo, not in their hand <FI>is<Fi> their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)

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


simplify: Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, A hundred measures of wheat. He saith unto him, Take thy bond, and write fourscore.

Then he said to another, What is the amount of your debt? And he said, A hundred measures of grain. And he said to him, Take your account and put down eighty.


rate difficulty: But I say unto you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you,

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


rate difficulty: But Peter denied it before them all. “I do not know what you mean,” he replied.

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


rate difficulty: For our transgressions have been multiplied before Thee, And our sins have testified against us, For our transgressions <FI>are<Fi> with us, And our iniquities--we have known them.

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


rate difficulty: A traveller to life <FI>is<Fi> he who is keeping instruction, And whoso is forsaking rebuke is erring.

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


simplify: The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

The Lord has sent among them a spirit of error: and by them Egypt is turned out of the right way in all her doings, as a man overcome by wine is uncertain in his steps.


rate difficulty: Nearest to him will be the tribe of Asher, with Pagiel, the son of Ochran, as their chief.

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simplify: And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.

And the Lord said to Jonah, Have you any right to be angry about the vine? And he said, I have a right to be truly angry.


simplify: And Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay; but whom the Lord, and this people, and all the men of Israel, choose, his will I be, and with him will I abide.

And Hushai said to Absalom, Not so; I am for that man whom the Lord and this people and all the men of Israel have taken as king, and I will take my place with him.


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,


rate difficulty: And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Chisloth–tabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia,

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rate difficulty: Far be the thought: since how shallGod judge the world?


rate difficulty: for in part we know, and in part we prophecy;


simplify: And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his throne, and great authority.

And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power and his seat and great authority.


rate difficulty: I want you to bear in mind, friends, that all our ancestors were beneath the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

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simplify: Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the Lord was there:

Because you have said, The two nations and the two countries are to be mine, and we will take them for our heritage; though the Lord was there:


simplify: And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments among them, casting lots;

And when they had put him on the cross, they made division of his clothing among them by the decision of chance.


simplify: Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

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.


rate difficulty: But I say to you that from now I will not take of this fruit of the vine, till that day when I take it new with you in my Father's kingdom.

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simplify: and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant imagery.

And on all the ships of Tarshish, and on all the fair boats.


rate difficulty: no, nor yet Herod: for he sent him back unto us; and behold, nothing worthy of death hath been done by him.

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


rate difficulty: So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.

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simplify: I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.


rate difficulty: A troubled fountain, and a defiled well, is a righteous [man] that giveth way before the wicked.

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rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Moses, See, I will come to you in a thick cloud, so that what I say to you may come to the ears of the people and they may have belief in you for ever. And Moses gave the Lord word of what the people had said.

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


simplify: Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.

Then he came back, and after walking once through the house and back, he went up, stretching himself out on the child seven times; and the child's eyes became open.


simplify: And their brethren of their fathers’ houses: Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jacan, and Zia, and Eber, seven.

And their brothers, the men of their family: Michael and Meshullam and Sheba and Jorai and Jacan and Zia and Eber, seven of them.


rate difficulty: What <FI>is<Fi> that which hath been? already is its name called, and it is known that it <FI>is<Fi> man, and he is not able to contend with him who is stronger than he.

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


rate difficulty: Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy.

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


simplify: I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,

I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and a great voice at my back, as of a horn, came to my ears,


simplify: I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

I will be full of joy in the Lord, my soul will be glad in my God; for he has put on me the clothing of salvation, covering me with the robe of righteousness, as the husband puts on a fair head-dress, and the bride makes herself beautiful with jewels.


simplify: But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;

But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him;


rate difficulty: and on the eighth day he bringeth in two turtle-doves or two young pigeons unto the priest, unto the opening of the tent of meeting,

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simplify: Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church.

So if I come, I will keep in mind the things he does, talking against us with evil words: and as if this was not enough, he does not take the brothers into his house, and those who are ready to take them in, he keeps from doing so, putting them out of the church if they do.


simplify: Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

Is there no life-giving oil in Gilead? is there no expert in medical arts? why then have my people not been made well?


simplify: and in his sowing, some indeed fell by the way, and the fowls did come and devour them,

as they were sowing, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah raised up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king’s seed in Edom.

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rate difficulty: The work of the foolish will be a weariness to him, because he has no knowledge of the way to the town.

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simplify: Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth upon them.

Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel came together, taking no food and putting haircloth and dust on their bodies.


rate difficulty: And they said to one another, Was not our heart burning in us as he spoke to us on the way, [and] as he opened the scriptures to us?

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rate difficulty: And the king saith to Zadok, `Take back the ark of God to the city; if I find grace in the eyes of Jehovah, then He hath brought me back, and shewn me it and His habitation;

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


rate difficulty: This <FI>is<Fi> a law of him in whom <FI>is<Fi> a plague of leprosy, whose hand reacheth not to his cleansing.'

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


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?


rate difficulty: But Jesus answered: “No one who looks back, after putting their hand to the plow, is fitted for the kingdom of God.”

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rate difficulty: And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.

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simplify: I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.

I have a duty to both the Greek and the barbarian, to both the cultured and the ignorant.


simplify: And the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri hath conspired, and hath also smitten the king: wherefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp.

And news came to the people in the tents that Zimri had made a secret design and had put the king to death: so all Israel made Omri, the captain of the army, king that day in the tents.


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


rate difficulty: And Nebuzar-Adan, chief of the executioners sendeth, and Nebushazban, chief of the eunuchs, and Nergal-Sharezer, chief of the Mages, and all the chiefs of the king of Babylon;

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


rate difficulty: A wise son [heareth] his father's instruction; but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

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simplify: And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

And said to him, See now, you are old, and your sons do not go in your ways: give us a king now to be our judge, so that we may be like the other nations.


simplify: and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.

He will have rule over the house of Jacob for ever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.


rate difficulty: For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.

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rate difficulty: In the seeing for thee of a vain thing, In the divining for thee of a lie, To put thee on the necks of the wounded of the wicked, whose day hath come, In the time of the iniquity of the end.

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rate difficulty: A false witness <FI>who<Fi> doth breathe out lies--And one sending forth contentions between brethren.

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


rate difficulty: This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.


rate difficulty: And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.

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


simplify: Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.


rate difficulty: And he will pass through the sea of affliction, and will smite the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile shall dry up; and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart.


rate difficulty: I know how to be abased, and I know also how to abound: in everything and in all things have I learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want.


simplify: And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!

And they will send up a song of grief for you, and say to you, What destruction has come on you, how are you cut off from the sea, the noted town, which was strong in the sea, she and her people, causing the fear of them to come on all the dry land!


rate difficulty: But you, my brothers, are not in the dark, for that day to overtake you like a thief:


rate difficulty: And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

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


rate difficulty: TheGod who hath avenged me, And hath brought the peoples under me.


simplify: much in every way; for first, indeed, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God;

Great in every way. First of all, because the Jews were entrusted with God’s utterances.


simplify: And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.

After this his enemies were eager to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd; for they saw that it was at them that he had aimed the parable. So they let him alone, and went away.


rate difficulty: If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression;

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rate difficulty: “Show me a coin. Whose head and title are on it?”

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


simplify: And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.

And straight away he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, till he had sent the people away.


simplify: In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

In the body of his flesh through death, so that you might be holy and without sin and free from all evil before him:


simplify: Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.

If only you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to keep all these orders which I give you today.


rate difficulty: and one-tenth deal for the one lamb, for the seven lambs;


simplify: And some of the sons of the priests prepared the confection of the spices.

And some of the sons of the priests were responsible for crushing the spices.


rate difficulty: and next to him was Johanan the captain, and with him two hundred and eighty thousand;

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simplify: Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, as often as they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.

Then the rulers of the Philistines went out to war: and whenever they went out, David did more wisely than all the other servants of Saul, so that his name became greatly honoured.


rate difficulty: And such confidence have we through the Christ towardsGod:


simplify: And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nahshon, the son of Amminadab.


simplify: Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in the prison-house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in prison, burning with wrath against him because of this thing. And at the same time Asa was cruel to some of the people.


simplify: Unto the sons of Gershom were given out of the family of the half tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, and Ashtaroth with her suburbs:

To the sons of Gershom were given, out of the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its outskirts, and Ashtaroth with its outskirts;


rate difficulty: and having been found in figure as a man, humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and [that the] death of [the] cross.

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simplify: And I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he be constant to do my commandments and mine ordinances, as at this day.

I will keep his kingdom in its place for ever, if he is strong at all times to do my orders and keep my rules, as at this day.


simplify: And if men contend, and one smite the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keep his bed;

If, in a fight, one man gives another a blow with a stone, or with the shut hand, not causing his death, but making him keep in bed;


rate difficulty: And sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah, and Jesaiah, sons of Rephaiah, sons of Arnan, sons of Obadiah, sons of Shechaniah.

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


rate difficulty: And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.

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


simplify: And a strong angel took up a stone as it were a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with a mighty fall shall Babylon, the great city, be cast down, and shall be found no more at all.

And a strong angel took up a stone like the great stone with which grain is crushed, and sent it into the sea, saying, So, with a great fall, will Babylon, the great town, come to destruction, and will not be seen any more at all.


rate difficulty: In the mouth of the foolish is a rod forhispride; But the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

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


simplify: For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.

For if you truly do this, then there will come in through the doors of this house kings seated on the seat of David, going in carriages and on horseback, he and his servants and his people


rate difficulty: And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the Lord.

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


simplify: And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the Lord with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people.

And they gave teaching in Judah and had the book of the law of the Lord with them; they went through all the towns of Judah teaching the people.


simplify: Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.

But what does the passage of scripture say?  ‘Send away the slave-woman and her son; for the slave’s son will not be coheir with the son of the free woman.’


rate difficulty: And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.

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simplify: To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

Yet our ancestors refused him obedience; more than that, they rejected him, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,


rate difficulty: `For freeing freemen in Israel, For a people willingly offering themselves Bless ye Jehovah.

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


simplify: Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem, and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the house of Jehovah.

Now in the second year of their coming into the house of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, the work was taken in hand by Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come from the land where they were prisoners to Jerusalem: and they made the Levites, of twenty years old and over, responsible for overseeing the work of the house of the Lord.


simplify: who moreover assayed to profane the temple: on whom also we laid hold:

Who, in addition, was attempting to make the Temple unclean: whom we took,


simplify: And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.

The number of the hosts of cavalry was ten thousand times ten thousand, twice told; I heard their number.


rate difficulty: And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab;

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rate difficulty: And he gave orders to Hilkiah and to Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, and Abdon, the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe and Asaiah, the king's servant, saying,

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rate difficulty: And has done no wrong to any, but has given back to the debtor what is his, and has taken no one's goods by force, and has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;

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simplify: And the children of Israel journeyed, and encamped in Oboth.

Then the children of Israel went on and put up their tents in Oboth.


simplify: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.  The second epistle to the Thessalonians was written from Athens.

May the blessing of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.


rate difficulty: And Solomon explained to her all she spoke of: there was not a thing hidden from the king that he did not explain to her.

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


rate difficulty: And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, seated at table, there came a woman with a bottle of perfumed oil of great price; and when the bottle was broken she put the perfume on his head.

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simplify: But if we shall say, From men; all the people will stone us: for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.

But if we say, Of men; we will be stoned by the people, for they are certain that John was a prophet.


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

By the way he came he will go back, and he will not get into this town, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

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


rate difficulty: For her wounds are incurable; for it is come even unto Judah, it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

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


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

Then take the breast of Aaron's sheep, waving it before the Lord; and it is to be your part of the offering.


simplify: And it came to pass in those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John at the Jordan;

Now about that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.


simplify: but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

But a mist went up from the earth, watering all the face of the land.


simplify: Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion.

The voice of your watchmen! their voices are loud in song together; for they will see him, eye to eye, when the Lord comes back to Zion.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said to Moses and to Aaron, Take to yourselves handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses scatter it toward the heavens before the eyes of Pharaoh.

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rate difficulty: Then Herod, seeing that he had been mocked by the magi, was greatly enraged; and sent and slew all the boys which [were] in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time which he had accurately inquired from the magi.

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


rate difficulty: Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?


simplify: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

To whom, though himself in the form of God, it did not seem that to take for oneself was to be like God;


simplify: And as they were going on the way, they came upon a certain water, and the eunuch said, `Lo, water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?'

Presently, as they were going along the road, they came to some water, and the Treasurer exclaimed: “Look! Here is water; what is to prevent my being baptized?”


rate difficulty: then Thou dost hear from the heavens, the settled place of Thy dwelling, and hast forgiven, and hast given to each according to all his ways (because Thou knowest his heart, for Thou--Thou only--hast known the heart of the sons of men),

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


simplify: And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?

And Absalom said, Is this your love for your friend? why did you not go with your friend?


rate difficulty: Take an instrument of music, go about the town, O loose woman who has gone out from the memory of man; make sweet melody with songs, so that you may come back to men's minds.


simplify: But I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes.

But I will take the kingdom from his son, and give it to you.


rate difficulty: a several tenth deal for the one lamb, for the seven lambs,

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


simplify: All that are home-born shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.

All those who are Israelites by birth are to do these things in this way, when giving an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord.


simplify: And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.

And they put twists of blue cord on the edge of the outside curtain of the first group, and in the same way on the outside curtain of the second group.


rate difficulty: and unto those of the sons of Israel who are near He hath not put forth His hand, and they see God, and eat and drink.

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


rate difficulty: wherefore not even myself thought I worthy to come unto thee, but say in a word, and my lad shall be healed;

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


simplify: Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth bribes, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.


rate difficulty: 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,

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rate difficulty: And now, what shall we say, ourGod, after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,

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

Again, think of ships. Large as they are, and even when driven by fierce winds, they are controlled by a very small rudder and steered in whatever direction the man at the helm may determine.


simplify: And David inquired again of God; and God said unto him, Thou shalt not go up after them: turn away from them, and come upon them over against the mulberry-trees.

And David went for directions to God; and God said to him, You are not to go up after them; but, turning away from them, come face to face with them opposite the spice-trees.


simplify: And if a man shall lie with his uncle’s wife, he hath uncovered his uncle’s nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

And if a man has sex relations with the wife of his father's brother, he has put shame on his father's brother: their sin will be on them; till the day of their death they will have no children.


simplify: and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.

And what he did to the two kings of the Amorites east of Jordan, to Sihon, king of Heshbon, and to Og, king of Bashan, at Ashtaroth.


simplify: The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.

The underworld, and the woman without a child; the earth which never has enough water, and the fire which never says, Enough.


simplify: and glory, and honour, and peace, to every one who is working the good, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

But there will be glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does right — for the Jew first, but also for the Greek,


rate difficulty: But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?

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simplify: And when eight days were fulfilled to circumcise the child, then was his name called Jesus, having been so called by the messenger before his being conceived in the womb.

Eight days after the birth of the child, when it was time to circumcise him, he received the name Jesus — the name given him by the angel before his conception.


simplify: The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side.

On that day Jesus went out of the house and was seated by the seaside.


simplify: why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?


simplify: But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower than the skin, but be dim; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:

But if, after looking at it, the priest sees that there is no white hair on the bright place, and it is not deeper than the skin, and is not very bright, then let the priest keep him shut up for seven days:


rate difficulty: And it came about that on one of these days he was teaching; and some Pharisees and teachers of the law were seated there, who had come from every town of Galilee and Judaea and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was with him, to make those who were ill free from their diseases.

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simplify: And Saul built an altar unto the Lord: the same was the first altar that he built unto the Lord.

And Saul put up an altar to the Lord: this was the first altar which he put up to the Lord.


simplify: And they answered Jesus, and said, We know not. He also said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.

And they made answer and said, We have no idea. Then he said to them, And I will not say to you by what authority I do these things.


simplify: We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country; for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

We would have made Babylon well, but she is not made well: give her up, and let us go everyone to his country: for her punishment is stretching up to heaven, and lifted up even to the skies.


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

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rate difficulty: So Joshua took all the land, as the Lord had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it to the children of Israel as their heritage, making division of it among them by their tribes. And the land had rest from war.

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rate difficulty: And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.


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

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rate difficulty: Now he had taken about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west of the city.

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rate difficulty: And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the Lord in the Lord’s house.

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simplify: And she went out, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptizer.

And she went out and said to her mother, What is my request to be? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.


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

Because if it is God's purpose for you to undergo pain, it is better to do so for well-doing than for evil-doing.


simplify: She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

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


simplify: I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;

My desire is, first of all, that you will make requests and prayers and give praise for all men;


simplify: Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

Up! let us go up by night, and send destruction on her great houses.