Marked words appear in this translation and in no other English translation of this verse. Common small words and older spellings are not marked. The marks show where the wording differs, not where the meaning does.
Talal Itani· published 2012
The king said, "Bring him to me." And when the envoy came to him, he said, "Go back to your master, and ask him about the intentions of the women who cut their hands; my Lord is well aware of their schemes."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And the king said: Bring him unto me. And when the messenger came unto him, he (Joseph) said: Return unto thy lord and ask him what was the case of the women who cut their hands. Lo! my Lord knoweth their guile
Sources
Translation Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran·Public domain — copyright term expired
Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran·1930 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work
·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
Edward Henry Palmer1840–1882 · published 1880
Then said the king, 'Bring him to me.' And when the messenger came to him, he said, 'Go back to thy lord, and ask him, "What meant the women who cut their hands? Verily, my lord knows their craftiness
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And the King said, "Bring him to me." And when the messenger came to Joseph he said, "Go back to thy lord, and ask him what meant the women who cut their hands, for my lord well knoweth the snare they laid
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And when the chiefbutler had reported this, the king said, bring him unto me. And when the messenger came unto Joseph, he said, return unto thy lord, and ask of him, what was the intent of the women who cut their hands; for my Lord well knoweth the snare which they laid for me
Sources
Translation George Sale, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
George Sale, English translation of the Qur'an·1734 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work
·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
Other languages (18)Shqip · Albanian
Mbreti tha: "Ma sillni atë!" Kur erdhi i dërguari, ai (Jusufi) i tha: "Kthehu te zotëria yt dhe pyete për punën e grave që prenë duart e veta, se, pa dyshim, Zoti im di mirë për dredhinë e tyre."
Translated by the team of Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আর বাদশাহ (ইউসুফের দেওয়া স্বপ্নের ব্যাখ্যা শুনে) বললো: ‘তোমরা তাকে আমার কাছে নিয়ে আসো।’ অতঃপর যখন দূত তার কাছে আসলো, তখন সে বললো: ‘তুমি তোমার (বাদশাহ) মনিবের নিকট ফিরে গিয়ে তাকে জিজ্ঞাসা করো, (বহুকাল পূর্বে ভোজ সবায়) যে সব মহিলা নিজ নিজ হাত কেটে ফেলেছিল, তাদের অবস্থা কী?(১২) নিশ্চয় আমার রব তাদের ষড়যন্ত্র সম্পর্কে সম্যক জ্ঞাত।’
Translated by the team of Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Dawah Association in Rabwah, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
I vladar reče: "Dovedite mi ga!" I kad Jusufu izaslanik dođe, on reče: "Vrati se gospodaru svome i upitaj ga: 'Šta je s onim ženama koje su svoje ruke porezale? Gospodar moj dobro zna spletke njihove!' "
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
I vladar reče: "Dovedite mi ga!" I kad Josipu izaslanik dođe, on reče: "Vrati se gospodaru svome i upitaj ga: 'Što je s onim ženama koje su svoje ruke porezale? Gospodar moj dobro zna spletke njihove!'"
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Laamɗo on wi'i: "ngaddanee kam on". Nde imminaaɗo on arunoo mo, o maaki: "Rutto ka koohoojo maa on laɓndoɗaa mo: Ko woni fiyaaku ɓen rewɓe taƴnooɓe juuɗe mun ɗen? Pellet Joomi am ko gannduɗo pewje maɓɓe ɗen".
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ქართული · Georgian
(ღვინის მსხმელი დაბრუნდა მეფესთან და უამბო მას, თუ როგორ აუხსნა იუსუფმა ეს სიზმარი). მეფემ მისაღებად ჩათვალა ეს განმარტება და თქვა: «მომიყვანეთ იგი! [ის, ვინც ჩემი სიზმარი განმარტა]». როცა მასთან [იუსუფთან] მოვიდა მეფის გზავნილი და გადასცა მისი მოწოდება, იუსუფმა არ მოისურვა აჩქარება და გადაწყვიტა ლოდინი, სანამ მისი უდანაშაულობა დამტკიცდებოდა. იუსუფმა უთხრა მოციქულს: «დაუბრუნდი შენს ბატონს [მეფეს] და ჰკითხე მას:
‘რა მოუვიდა იმ ქალებს, (ვის გვერდითაც ეგვიპტის ვეზირის ცოლმა მოუწოდა და) რომლებმაც ხელები გაიჭრეს?’ —
რადგან ჭეშმარიტად, ჩემმა უფალმა იცის მათი ხრიკები!»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und der König sagte: „Bringt ihn zu mir.“ Als der Bote dann zu ihm kam, sagte er (also Yusuf): „Kehr zu deinem Herrn zurück und frag ihn, wie es mit den Frauen steht, die sich ihre Hände zerschnitten. Wahrlich, mein Herr ist ja wissend über ihre List.“
Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Ο Βασιλιάς είπε (στους βοηθούς του όταν του έφτασε η ερμηνεία του Ιωσήφ): «Φέρτε τον (Ιωσήφ) σε μένα.» Όταν όμως ο αγγελιαφόρος (του βασιλιά) ήρθε σ' αυτόν (τον Ιωσήφ), (ο Ιωσήφ του) είπε: «Πήγαινε πίσω στον κύριό σου (τον βασιλιά) και ρώτησέ τον (για να φανεί πρώτα η αθώτητά μου μπροστά του και μπροστά σε όλους): «Ποια είναι η ιστορία των γυναικών που τραυμάτισαν τα χέρια τους;» Πράγματι, ο Κύριός μου είναι για το δόλο τους Παντογνώστης.»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और राजा ने कहा : उसे मेरे पास लाओ। फिर जब दूत यूसुफ़ के पास पहुँचा, तो उन्होंने (उससे) कहा : अपने मालिक के पास वापस जाओ[14] और उससे पूछो कि उन स्त्रियों का क्या मामला है, जिन्होंने अपने हाथ काट लिए थे? निःसंदेह मेरा पालनहार उन स्त्रियों के छल से भली-भाँति अवगत है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E il Re disse: «Portatelo qui!» Quando gli arrivò il Messaggero, disse: «Torna dal tuo signore e chiedigli: «Perché le donne si sono tagliate le mani? In verità il mio Dio è sapiente sulle loro trame!»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
50. Ir tarė karalius: „Atveskite jį pas mane.“ Tačiau, kai pasiuntinys atėjo pas jį, [Jusufas (Juozapas) tarė: „Grįžk pas savo poną ir paklausk jo: „Kas nutiko moterims, kurios susipjaustė savo rankas? Iš tiesų, mano Viešpats (Allahas) yra Visa Suvokiantis apie jų sąmokslą.“
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Русский · Russian
И царь сказал: «Приведите его ко мне». Но когда посланец пришёл к нему, [Юсуф] сказал: «Вернись к своему господину и спроси его: “Как обстоит дело с женщинами, которые порезали себе руки?” Воистину, мой Господь — знающий их козни».
Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
И владар рече: „Доведите ми га!“ И кад Јосифу дође изасланик, он рече: „Врати се своме господару и упитај га: 'Шта је са оним женама које су своје руке порезале? Мој Господар добро зна њихове сплетке!'“
Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na mfalme akasema: "Nijieni naye!" Basi mjumbe huyo alipomjia, Yusuf akasema: Rudi kwa bwana wako na umuulize wana nini wale wanawake waliojikatakata mikono yao. Hakika Mola wangu Mlezi anazijua vyema njama zao.
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Svenska · Swedish
Kungen sa: ”För honom till mig!” När budbäraren kom till honom sa han: ”Gå tillbaka till din herre och fråga honom om händelsen med kvinnorna som skar sig i händerna. Min Herre har full kännedom om deras list.”
Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Kral: “Onu bana getirin” dedi. Elçi, Yûsuf’a gelince (Yûsuf) dedi ki: “Efendine dön de, ellerini kesen o kadınlara ne oldu, diye sor. Şüphesiz Rabbim onların hilesini hakkıyla bilendir.”
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اردو · Urdu
اور بادشاه نے کہا یوسف کو میرے پاس لاؤ[1] ، جب قاصد یوسف کے پاس پہنچا تو انہوں نے کہا، اپنے بادشاه کے پاس واپس جا اور اس سے پوچھ کہ ان عورتوں کا حقیقی واقعہ کیا ہے جنہوں نے اپنے ہاتھ کاٹ لئے[2]، تھے؟ ان کے حیلے کو (صحیح طور پر) جاننے واﻻ میرا پروردگار ہی ہے.
Translated by Muhammad Ibrahim Junagarhi, developed under the supervision of the Rowwad Translation Center. The original translation is available for the purpose of expressing opinion, evaluation, and continuous development.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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Easy-read (simplified)thumma ya'tee min ba'di dhaalika sab'un shidaadun ya'kulna maa qaddamtum lahunna illaa qaleelan mimmaa tuhsinoon
DIN 31635ṯumma yaʾtī min baʿdi ḏālika sabʿun šidādun yaʾkulna mā qaddamtum lahunna ʾillā qalīlan mimmā tuḥṣinūna
Talal Itani2012 Then after that will come seven difficult ones, which will consume what you have stored for them, except for the little that you have preserved.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Then after that will come seven hard years which will devour all that ye have prepared for them, save a little of that which ye have stored
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Then there shall come after that seven severe (years) which shall devour what ye have put by before for them, save a little of what ye shall preserve
John Medows Rodwell1861 Then after that shall come seven grievous years which shall eat what ye have stored for them, except a little which ye shall have kept
George Sale1734 Then shall there come, after this, seven grievous years of famine, which shall consume what ye shall have laid up as a provision for the same, except a little which ye shall have kept
DIN 31635ṯumma yaʾtī min baʿdi ḏālika ʿāmun fīhi yuġāṯu n-nāsu wafīhi yaʿṣirūna
Talal Itani2012 Then after that will come a year that brings relief to the people, and during which they will press.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Then, after that, will come a year when the people will have plenteous crops and when they will press (wine and oil)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Then there will come after that a year in which men shall have rain and in which they shall press
John Medows Rodwell1861 Then shall come after this a year, in which men shall have rain, and in which they shall press the grape
George Sale1734 Then shall there come, after this, a year wherein men shall have plenty of rain, and wherein thay shall press wine and oil
Talal Itani2012 He said, "What was the matter with you, women, when you tried to seduce Joseph?" They said, "God forbid! We knew of no evil committed by him." The governor's wife then said, "Now the truth is out. It was I who tried to seduce him, and he is telling the truth."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He (the king) (then sent for those women and) said: What happened when ye asked an evil act of Joseph? They answered: Allah Blameless! We know no evil of him. Said the wife of the ruler: Now the truth is out. I asked of him an evil act, and he is surely of the truthful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He said, 'What was your design when ye desired Joseph for his person?' They said, 'God forbid! we know no bad of him.' Said the wife of the prince, ' Now does the truth appear! I desired him for his person and, verily, he is of those who tell the truth
John Medows Rodwell1861 Then said the Prince to the women, "What was your purpose when ye solicited Joseph?" They said, "God keep us! we know not any ill of him." The wife of the Prince said, "Now doth the truth appear. It was I who would have led him into unlawful love, and he is one of the truthful
George Sale1734 And when the women were assembled before the king, he said unto them, what was your design, when ye solicited Joseph to unlawful love? They answered, God be praise! We know not any ill of him. The nobleman's wife said, now is the truth become manifest: I solicited him, to lie with me; and he is one of those who speak truth
Talal Itani2012 "This is that he may know that I did not betray him in secret, and that God does not guide the scheming of the betrayers."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 (Then Joseph said: I asked for) this, that he (my lord) may know that I betrayed him not in secret, and that surely Allah guideth not the snare of the betrayers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 That' (said Joseph) 'was that he might know that I did not betray him in his absence, and that God guides not the craft of those who do betray
John Medows Rodwell1861 By this" (said Joseph) "may my lord know that I did not in his absence play him false, and that God guideth not the machinations of deceivers
George Sale1734 And when Joseph was acquainted therewith he said, this discovery hath been made, that my lord might know that I was not unfaithful unto him in his absence, and that God directeth not the plot of the deceivers
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lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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The cut
0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · George Sale0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.59
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.55
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.50
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.46
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.41
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.41
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.36
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.35
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Source Tanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) · Uthmani, Version 1.1
Hafs/Kufan verse numbering, 6236 ayahs. The bismillah is delivered as a separate `bismillah` attribute on ayah 1 and is NOT fused into the ayah text. 112 surahs carry one: every surah except al-Fatiha, where the bismillah is ayah 1:1 itself, and at-Tawba, which has none. Sourced from the XML output; the plain-text output of the same release DOES fuse it, which is defect D1.
CLEARED. Licence read verbatim from the block embedded in this very file. Ingested exactly as shipped: no normalisation, no stripping of marks, no Unicode recomposition.
Parsed structurally from the EPUB: an h3 names the surah, one p per verse with its number in its own span. An unnumbered p is the basmala and is not a verse, except in surah 1 where the basmala IS verse 1. 112 unnumbered paragraphs were found, which is 114 surahs less surah 1 and surah 9. Text is stored VERBATIM: NFC normalisation and XML entity unescaping only, because CC BY-ND forbids modification.
CLEARED on a licence read first-hand from the translator's own download page, not from an aggregator. Tanzil also hosts this translation, but under a blanket "non-commercial purposes only" term that directs the user to the translator or publisher for permission - a hosting disclaimer, not a grant - so the grant was taken from the licensor directly. The "God" edition was ingested; ClearQuran also publishes an "Allah" edition, differing in how the divine name is rendered, which is not ingested.
CLEARED ON THE WORK, WITH TWO RECORDED CAVEATS ON THIS COPY. (1) Rights basis is the expired copyright term, NOT the redistributing repository's licence. That repository dedicates its contents to the public domain under the Unlicense while also redistributing plainly in-copyright translations (Abdel Haleem, Saheeh International, The Study Quran), so it is dedicating rights it cannot hold and its blanket grant is not relied upon here. (2) The file declares its own upstream as tanzil.net, and Tanzil attaches a non-commercial condition to its TRANSLATION distributions, though not to its Qur'anic text. Since Pickthall's copyright has expired, nobody holds rights in these words and no licence is required from anyone; Tanzil's terms are a contract binding those who download from Tanzil, which we did not. The chain is nonetheless not spotless and Anwar may prefer a clean digitisation of the 1930 printing. NOT VERIFIED: that this digital text matches the 1930 first printing rather than a later revised edition. No page images were collated. Recorded as unverified rather than presented as established. SERVED TEXT DIFFERS FROM THE CITED FILE AT ONE VERSE, 37:97: the file reads "red-hotfire" (a glued token, also in Gutenberg #16955); the served row reads "red-hot fire", restored 2026-09-13 from Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (London: George Allen & Unwin, printed for Alfred A. Knopf; 1930), p. 460, XXXVII 97 - scan archive.org in.ernet.dli.2015.216140, PDF page 475; banked data/derivation-sources/pickthall-1930-dli-2015.216140-text.pdf (sha256 70e81146c97fa3a590243a82e04e349108546074787e2551a78c616202138870) on Anwar Malik's grant.
Hafs/Kufan verse numbering, 6236 verses, keyed to mushaf order. The
bismillah is not fused into ayah 1: 1:1 carries it and no other verse
does. Verified against content check C3 at ingest.
CLEARED ON THE WORK. Term expired by every measure. The digital edition's upstream is not stated by the redistributor and the printing is unverified. No statement of purpose is recorded for Palmer because none was sourced from his own preface in this pass; nothing is asserted on his behalf.
Hafs/Kufan verse numbering, 6236 verses, keyed to mushaf order. The
bismillah is not fused into ayah 1: 1:1 carries it and no other verse
does. Verified against content check C3 at ingest.
CLEARED ON THE WORK. Term expired by every measure. TWO edition caveats. (1) The upstream is not stated by the redistributor. (2) Rodwell's own edition PRESENTS THE SURAHS IN HIS OWN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, not the mushaf order — he says so in his preface. This digital text is keyed to mushaf order, so it derives from a restored-order printing (such as the Everyman edition) rather than from Rodwell's own arrangement. Which printing is not stated and has not been established.
Hafs/Kufan verse numbering, 6236 verses, keyed to mushaf order. The
bismillah is not fused into ayah 1: 1:1 carries it and no other verse
does. Verified against content check C3 at ingest.
CLEARED ON THE WORK. Term expired by every measure. The digital edition's upstream is NOT STATED by the redistributor, so the printing it represents is unverified; Sale's text was reprinted and re-edited many times between 1734 and 1900. Recorded as unverified rather than assumed to be the first edition.
Hafs/Kufan verse numbering, 6236 ayahs. The bismillah is delivered as a separate `bismillah` attribute on ayah 1 and is NOT fused into the ayah text. 112 surahs carry one: every surah except al-Fatiha, where the bismillah is ayah 1:1 itself, and at-Tawba, which has none. Sourced from the XML output; the plain-text output of the same release DOES fuse it, which is defect D1.
CLEARED. Parallel edition, held in ayah_text_variants. It sits alongside the Uthmani spine for search normalisation and is never used to correct it.