iOS Grab Random Entry From XML File

I am working on displaying a random Bible verse from a KJV XML file that I have, but am having some issues with the formatting of the XML, as it essentially has numerous arrays within it. It has a format like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<bible translation="King James Version">
    <testament name="Old">
        <book name="Genesis">
            <chapter number="1">
                <verse number="1">
                </verse>
            </chapter>
        </book>
     </testament>
 </bible>

I have tried getting this converted to a plist file to handle it better, but am running into issues on that front as well. I used an online program to convert this to JSON file, but when using plutil from terminal to convert to a plist file, I get the following error:

Unexpected character { at line 1 / JSON error: No string key for value in object around character 1.

The JSON format looks like this for the first few lines:

{
  "bible": {
    "-translation": "King James Version",
    "testament": [
      {
        "-name": "Old",
        "book": [
          {
            "-name": "Genesis",
            "chapter": [
              {
                "-number": "1",
                "verse": [
                  {
                    "-number": "1",
                    "#text": "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."
                  },

I would appreciate any suggestions, either on converting this to a plist file, or to making it work with XML.