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
So they set out. Until, when they reached the people of a town, they asked them for food, but they refused to offer them hospitality. There they found a wall about to collapse, and he repaired it. He said, "If you wanted, you could have obtained a payment for it."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
So they twainjourneyed on till, when they came unto the folk of a certain township, they asked its folk for food, but they refused to make them guests. And they found therein a wall upon the point of falling into ruin, and he repaired it. (Moses) said: If thou hadst wished, thou couldst have taken payment for it
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
So they set out until when they came to the people of a city; and they asked the people thereof for food; but they refused to entertain them. And they found therein a wall which wanted to fall to pieces, and he set it upright. Said (Moses), 'Hadst thou pleased thou mightstcertainly have had a hire for this
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
They went on till they came to the people of a city. Of this people they asked food, but they refused them for guests. And they found in it a wall that was about to fall, and he set it upright. Said Moses, "If thou hadst wished, for this thou mightest have obtained pay
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
They went forwards therefore, until they came to the inhabitants of a certain city: And they asked food of the inhabitants thereof; but they refused to receive them. And they found therein a wall, which was ready to fall down; and he set it upright. Whereupon Moses said unto him, if thou wouldest, thou mightest doubtless have received a reward for it
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
Pastaj ata të dy vazhduan derisa, kur arritën te banorët e një qyteti, u kërkuan banorëve diçka për të ngrënë, por ata nuk i pranuan si mysafirë. Pastaj në të ata gjetën një mur që donte të shembej dhe ai e drejtoi. Musai tha: "Po të doje, mund të merrje shpërblim për të."
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বাংলা · Bengali
অতঃপর তারা দু’জন সামনের দিকে চলতে লাগল। অবশেষে তারা যখন একটি জনপদের অধিবাসীদের নিকট পৌঁছলো তখন তাদের কাছে কিছু খাবার চাইলো; কিন্তু তারা তাদেরকে মেহমানদারি করতে অস্বীকার করলো। অতঃপর তারা সেখানে একটি প্রাচীর দেখতে পেলো, যা পড়ে যাওয়ার উপক্রম হয়েছিলো। সে (খাদির) তখন প্রাচীরটি সোজাভাবে দাঁড় করিয়ে দিলো। মূসা বললো: ‘আপনি ইচ্ছা করলে এর জন্য পারিশ্রমিক নিতে পারতেন।’
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Bosanski · Bosnian
I njih dvojica krenuše. Kad dođoše do jednog grada, zamoliše stanovnike njegove da ih nahrane, ali oni odbiše da ih ugoste. U gradu njih dvojica naiđoše na jedan zid koji tek što se nije srušio, pa ga onaj prezida i ispravi. “Mogao si”, reče Musa, “uzeti za to nagradu.”
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Hrvatski · Croatian
I njih dvojica krenuše. Kad dođoše do jednog grada, zamoliše stanovnike njegove da ih nahrane, ali oni odbiše da ih ugoste. U gradu njih dvojica naiđoše na jedan zid koji tek što se nije srušio, pa ga onaj prezida i ispravi. “Mogao si”, reče Mojsije, “uzeti za to nagradu.”
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Ɓe njehi haa ɓe njaltiti e yimɓe saare, ɓe ɗaɓɓiri ɓe ñaametee ɓe calii wernude ɓe, ɓe tawi e ndeer mayre maadi faalaa fukkaade [Khadiru] o darnindi , o [Muusaa] maaki: "Sinno a yiɗno a ƴettatno njoɓdi e ɗum".
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ქართული · Georgian
და გაემართნენ [მუსა და ხიდრი], ვიდრე ერთი სოფლის ბინადრებს შეხვდებოდნენ. საჭმელი სთხოვეს მის ბინადართ; მათ კი უარი უთხრეს, რომ გამასპინძლებოდნენ. და დაინახეს იქ კედელი, რომელიც ჩამონგრევის პირას იყო. ხოლო იმან (ხიდრმა) გაასწორა იგი. უთხრა [მუსამ]: «თუ შენ მოგესურვებინა, ნამდვილად აიღებდი ამის სანაცვლოდ საზღაურს».
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Deutsch · German
Da zogen sie beide weiter, bis, als sie dann zu den Bewohnern einer Ortschaft kamen, sie ihre Bewohner um etwas zu essen baten; diese aber weigerten sich, sie gastlich aufzunehmen. Da fanden sie in ihr eine Mauer, die einzustürzen drohte, und so richtete er sie auf. Er (also Musa) sagte: „Wenn du wolltest, hättest du dafür fürwahr Lohn nehmen können.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Στη συνέχεια, προχώρησαν μέχρι που ήρθαν στους κατοίκους μίας κωμόπολης, και τους ζήτησαν να τους δώσουν φαγητό (ως φιλοξενία), αλλά εκείνοι αρνήθηκαν να τους προσφέρουν φιλοξενία. Βρήκαν εκεί έναν τοίχο που ήταν έτοιμος να καταρρεύσει, αλλά (ο Αλ-Χάντιρ) τον διόρθωσε. (Ο Μωυσής) είπε: «Αν ήθελες, θα μπορούσες να πάρεις κάποια πληρωμή γι' αυτό!»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
फिर दोनो चले, यहाँ तक कि जब एक गाँव वालों के पास आए, तो उसके वासियों से भोजन माँगा। परंतु उन्होंने उनका अतिथि सत्कार करने से इनकार कर दिया। फिर वहाँ उन्होंने एक दीवार पाई, जो गिरा चाहती थी। तो उस (खज़िर) ने उसे सीधा कर दिया। (मूसा ने) कहा : यदि आप चाहते, तो इसपर पारिश्रमिक ले लेते।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Così partirono finché trovarono degli abitanti di un villaggio: chiesero del cibo a quelli, che non vollero ospitarli, e trovarono là un muro che era sul punto di cedere. Lo riparò. Disse: «Avresti potuto ricavarne un compenso!»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
77. Tada jie abu keliavo tol, kol, priėję miesto žmones, paprašė jų maisto, tačiau jie atsisakė juos pavaišinti. Tada jie rado tenais bebaigiančią griūti sieną ir jis (Khidr) ją atstatė. [Mūsa (Mozė)] tarė: „Jei būtum panorėjęs, iš tiesų, būtum galėjęs už tai užsidirbti!“
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Ergasii isaan lamaan nideeman hanga warra magaalattii takka bira dhufanii, jiraattota ishee nyaata kadhatan, isaan keessummeessuu didan. Ergasii dhaaba mana jiguu fedhuu tokko argan. (namichi) (suphee) ol kaasee (diriirsee) isa dhaabe. (Muusaan): “Odoo feetee isa irratti mindaa fudhachuu ni dandeessa” jedhe.
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Русский · Russian
И они отправились в путь, пока не пришли к жителям селения и не попросили накормить их, но те отказались оказать им гостеприимство. И они нашли там стену, готовую обрушиться, и он выправил её. [Муса] сказал: «Если бы ты пожелал, то взял бы за это плату».
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Српски · Serbian
И њих двојица кренуше; и кад дођоше до једног града, замолише његове становнике да их нахране, али они одбише да их угосте. У граду њих двојица наиђоше на један зид који само што се није срушио, па га онај презида и усправи. „Могао си“, рече Мојсије, „за њега да узмеш награду.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Basi wakaondoka mpaka wakawafikia watu wa mji mmoja. Wakawaomba watu wake wawape chakula, nao wakakataa kuwakaribisha. Hapo wakakuta ukuta unataka kuanguka, (yule mja mwema) akausimamisha. (Musa) akasema, "Ungelitaka, ungelichukua ujira kwa haya."
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Svenska · Swedish
Så gav de sig av igen, och kom till en by där de bad om mat, men byborna visade ingen gästfrihet. Där fann de sedan en mur som höll på att rasa, och mannen återställde den. [Mose] sa: ”Du hade kunnat ta betalt för detta, om du bara velat.”
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Türkçe · Turkish
Yine yola koyuldular, sonunda ulaştıkları kasaba halkından kendilerine yiyecek istediler. Kasaba halkı onları misafir etmek istemedi. Onlar da orada yıkılmaya yüz tutmuş bir duvar buldular. O (Hızır), bunu doğrulttu. Mûsâ: "Eğer isteseydin buna karşılık bir ücret alabilirdin." dedi.
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اردو · Urdu
پھر دونوں چلے ایک گاؤں والوں کے پاس آکر ان سے کھانا طلب کیا تو انہوں نے ان کی مہمانداری سے صاف انکار کر دیا[1] ، دونوں نے وہاں ایک دیوار پائی جو گراہی چاہتی تھی، اس نے اسے ٹھیک اور درست [2]کر دیا، موسیٰ (علیہ السلام) کہنے لگے اگر آپ چاہتے تو اس پر اجرت لے لیتے.[3]
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.
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5 cleared translations, newest first, by year of publication, so the modern English comes before the historical ones. That is an ordering by date, not a judgement. Each is shown complete — this platform never excerpts a translation — and each renders under its translator's name. No translation here is marked as the correct one.
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Easy-read is a simplified pronunciation,
not authoritative — a rule-by-rule romanisation, not a reading.
Each verse ends in its pause form, as it is said when you stop there. Pauses inside a verse and other tajwid rules are not shown. It is derived from the Tanzil
Simple edition, while the Arabic above is the
Uthmani edition; both are cleared, but they are not the
same edition and their orthography differs.
Easy-read (simplified)qaala in sa'altuka 'an shay'in ba'dahaa falaa tusaahibnee qad balaghta min ladunnee 'udhraa
DIN 31635qāla ʾin saʾaltuka ʿan šayʾin baʿdahā falā tuṣāḥibnī qad balaġta min ladunnī ʿuḏran
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 He said, "If I ask you about anything after this, then do not keep company with me. You have received excuses from me."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 (Moses) said: If I ask thee after this concerning aught, keep not company with me. Thou hast received an excuse from me
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Said he, 'If I ask thee about anything after it, then do not accompany me. Now hast thou arrived at my excuse
John Medows Rodwell1861 Moses said, "If after this I ask thee aught, then let me be thy comrade no longer; but now hast thou my excuse
George Sale1734 Moses said, if I ask thee concerning any thing hereafter, suffer me not to accompany thee: Now hast thou received an excuse from me
Talal Itani2012 He said, "This is the parting between you and me. I will tell you the interpretation of what you were unable to endure.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He said: This is the parting between thee and me! I will announce unto thee the interpretation of that thou couldst not bear with patience
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Said he, 'This is the parting between me and thee. I will give thee the interpretation of that with which thou couldst not have patience
John Medows Rodwell1861 He said, "This is the parting point between me and thee. But I will first tell thee the meaning of that which thou couldst not await with patience
George Sale1734 He answered, this shall be a separation between me and thee: But I will first declare unto thee the signification of that which thou couldest not bear with patience
Talal Itani2012 As for the boat, it belonged to paupers working at sea. I wanted to damage it because there was a king coming after them seizing every boat by force.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 As for the ship, it belonged to poor people working on the river, and I wished to mar it, for there was a king behind them who is taking every ship by force
Edward Henry Palmer1880 As for the bark it belonged to poor people, who toiled on the sea, and I wished to damage it, for behind it was a king who seized on every bark by force
John Medows Rodwell1861 As to the vessel, it belonged to poor men who toiled upon the sea, and I was minded to damage it, for in their rear was a king who seized every ship by force
George Sale1734 The vessel belonged to certain poor men, who did their business in the sea: And I was minded to render it unserviceable, because there was a king behind them, who took every sound ship by force
These figures count the words the translations share. They measure wording, not meaning, and they do not say which translation is right.
Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.58 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
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The page says a verse is worded differently only above the cut below. The cut is a stated convention, not a property of the text, and it can be changed.
The cut
0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · George Sale0.67
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.64
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.63
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.59
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.53
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.52
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.51
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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.