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And remember when Moses said to his people, "O my people! verily ye - have sinned to your own hurt, by your taking the calf to worship it: Be turned then to your creator, and slay the guilty among you; this will be best for you with your creator:" Then turned He unto you, for He is the one who turneth, the Merciful
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
And recall that Moses said to his people, "O my people, you have done wrong to yourselves by worshiping the calf. So repent to your Maker, and kill your egos. That would be better for you with your Maker." So He turned to you in repentance. He is the Accepter of Repentance, the Merciful.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And when Moses said unto his people: O my people! Ye have wronged yourselves by your choosing of the calf (for worship) so turn in penitence to your Creator, and kill (the guilty) yourselves. That will be best for you with your Creator and He will relent toward you. Lo! He is the Relenting, the Merciful
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
When Moses said to his people, 'O my people! Ye have wronged yourselves in taking this calf; repent unto your Creator and kill each other; that will be better for you in your Creators eyes; and He turned unto you, for He is the compassionate one easily turned
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And when Moses said unto his people, O my people, verily ye have injured your own souls, by your taking the calf for your God; therefore be turned unto your Creator, and slay those among you who have been guilty of that crime; this will be better for you in the sight of your Creator; and thereupon He turned unto you, for He is easy to be reconciled, and merciful
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
Kujtoni kur Musai i tha popullit të vet: "O populli im, ju i bëtë padrejtësi vetvetes duke adhuruar viçin, kështu që kthehuni të penduar te Krijuesi juaj dhe vritni njëri-tjetrin. Kjo është më mirë për ju para Krijuesit tuaj. Ai jua pranoi pendimin, sepse Ai është Pranuesi i pendimit, Mëshirëploti."
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বাংলা · Bengali
(আর স্মরণ করো) যখন মূসা স্বীয় জাতির লোকদের বললো: ‘হে আমার জাতি! গো-বাছুরকে উপাস্যরূপে গ্রহণ করে তোমরা নিজেদের প্রতি জুলুম করেছ। কাজেই তোমরা নিজেদেরকে হত্যা করে তোমাদের স্রষ্টার কাছে তাওবাহ কর। তোমাদের স্রষ্টার কাছে এটাই তোমাদের জন্য কল্যাণকর। তখন তিনি তোমাদের তাওবাহ কবুল করে নিবেন। অবশ্যই তিনি তাওবাহ কবুলকারী -ক্ষমাশীল, পরম দয়ালু।'
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Bosanski · Bosnian
I kada je Musa rekao narodu svome: "Narode moj, vi ste doista sebi nepravdu učinili prihvativši tele; zato se Stvoritelju svome pokajte i poubijajte se!" To vam je kod vašeg Stvoritelja bolje, pa će vam pokajanje prihvatiti. Zaista je On stalni Primatelj pokajanja, Milostivi."
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Hrvatski · Croatian
I kada je Mojsije rekao narodu svome: "Narode moj, vi ste doista sebi nepravdu učinili prihvativši tele; zato se Stvoritelju svome pokajte i poubijajte se! To vam je kod vašeg Stvoritelja bolje, pa će vam pokajanje prihvatiti. Zaista je On stalni Primatelj pokajanja, Milostivi."
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Nde Muusaa wi' yimɓe makko onon yimɓe am on tooñii ko'e mon nde ndew-ɗon gool oo, nduttoɗee to tagɗo on oo, mbarto-ɗon ɗuum ɓuri moƴƴande on to Joom mon O accana on Kanko woni gaccanoowo jurmotooɗo.
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ქართული · Georgian
და აი, მიმართა მუსამ თავის ხალხს: «ო, ჩემო ხალხო! თქვენ თავადვე ჩაიდინეთ უსამართლობა საკუთარი თავის მიმართ,
როდესაც (ღვთაებად) დაიდგინეთ (ოქროს) ხბო. მოინანიეთ თქვენი შემოქმედის წინაშე და მოკალით ერთმანეთი [თქვენგან მათ, ვინც ხბოს არ სცემდა თაყვანს — უნდა მოეკლათ ისინი, ვინც თაყვანს სცემდა მას]; ეს თქვენთვის უკეთესია თქვენი შემოქმედის წინაშე (ვიდრე ჯოჯოხეთში სამუდამოდ მოხვედრა)[1]. და მან მიიღო თქვენი მონანიება, რადგან ის არის მონანიების მიმღები, შემწყალებელი!»
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Deutsch · German
Und (gedenkt,) als Musa zu seinem Volk sagte: „O mein Volk, ihr habt euch fürwahr selbst Unrecht zugefügt, indem ihr euch das Kalb (zum Gegenstand der Anbetung) genommen habt. So bereut vor eurem Erschaffer und tötet sodann einander! Dies ist besser für euch vor eurem Erschaffer! Da nahm Er eure Reue an; Er ist ja der Reue-Annehmende und Barmherzige.“
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Και (θυμηθείτε) όταν ο Μωυσής είπε στον λαό του: «Ω, λαέ μου! Στ’ αλήθεια, έχετε αδικήσει τους εαυτούς σας παίρνοντας το μοσχάρι (για λατρεία). Στραφείτε, λοιπόν, με μεταμέλεια στον Δημιουργό σας και σκοτωθείτε (οι αθώοι να σκοτώσουν τους άδικους ανάμεσά σας), αυτό είναι καλύτερο για σας ενώπιον του Δημιουργού σας (από το να μπείτε στο Πυρ για πάντα).» Στη συνέχεια, (ο Αλλάχ) δέχτηκε τη μεταμέλειά σας. Στ’ αλήθεια, είναι ο Ατ-Ταουάμπ (Αυτός που αποδέχεται τη μεταμέλεια), ο Αρ-Ραχείμ (Πολυεύσπλαχνος).
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हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा (वह समय याद करो) जब मूसा ने अपनी जाति से कहा : ऐ मेरी जाति के लोगो! निःसंदेह तुमने बछड़े को पूज्य बनाकर अपने आपपर अत्याचार किया है। अतः तुम अपने पैदा करने वाले के समक्ष तौबा करो और आपस में एक-दूसरे[27] को क़त्ल करो। यही तुम्हारे लिए तुम्हारे पैदा करने वाले के निकट बेहतर है। फिर उसने तुम्हारी तौबा क़बूल कर ली। निःसंदेह वही बहुत तौबा क़बूल करने वाला, अत्यंत दयावान् है।
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Italiano · Italian
E quando Mūsā disse al suo popolo: “O popolo mio, in verità siete stati ingiusti con voi stessi prendendo[7] il vitello; pentitevi al vostro Dio: uccidete voi stessi! Ciò è considerato migliore, per voi, dal vostro Dio: Lui ha accolto il vostro pentimento: In verità Lui è il Perdonatore, il Misericordioso!”
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
54. Ir (atminkite), kai Mūsa (Mozė) tarė savo žmonėms: „Mano žmonės, iš tiesų, jūs nuskriaudėte save, garbindami veršiuką. Tad kreipkitės atgailaudami į savo Kūrėją ir nužudykite savuosius (nekaltieji nužudykite nusidėjėlius iš savo tarpo), - tai bus geriau jūsų Kūrėjo akivaizdoje.“ Tada Jis priėmė jūsų atgailą. Iš tiesų, Jis – Tas, Kuris priima atgailą, Gailestingiausiasis.
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Русский · Russian
И вот Муса сказал своему народу: «О народ мой! Воистину, вы поступили несправедливо по отношению к самим себе, избрав себе [божеством] тельца. Так покайтесь же перед своим Создателем и убейте [ослушников из вас] самих — это лучше для вас перед вашим Создателем». И Он принял ваше покаяние. Воистину, Он — Принимающий покаяние, Милующий.
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Српски · Serbian
И када је Мојсије свом народу рекао: „Народе мој, ви сте заиста себи неправду учинили узевши теле; зато се Створитељу своме покајте и између вас преступнике смрћу казните! То вам је код вашег Створитеља боље, па ће покајање да вам прихвати. Заиста Он стално прима покајања, Милостиви.“
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Na Musa alipowaambia watu wake: Enyi watu wangu! Hakika nyinyi mmezidhulumu nafsi zenu kwa kuchukua kwenu ndama (kumuabudu). Basi tubuni kwa Muumba wenu na ziueni nafsi zenu. Haya ni bora kwenu mbele ya Muumba wenu. Naye akapokea toba yenu. Hakika Yeye ndiye apokeaye toba mno, Mwenye kurehemu zaidi.
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Svenska · Swedish
Och minns när Mose sa till sitt folk: ”Mitt folk! Ni har sannerligen gjort orätt mot er själva när ni tog kalven [till en avgud]. Vänd er därför i ånger till er Frambringare genom att döda varandra. Detta är vad er Frambringare finner vara bäst för er.” Och han tog emot er ånger; han är förvisso den som ständigt godtar ånger, den Barmhärtige.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Mûsâ, kavmine dedi ki: “Ey kavmim! Sizler, buzağıyı ilâh edinmekle kendinize yazık ettiniz. Gelin yaratıcınıza tövbe edin ve birbirinizi öldürün. Bu, yaratıcınız katında sizin için daha iyidir." Böylece Allah da onların tövbesini kabul etti. Çünkü O, tövbeleri çok kabul edendir, çok merhametlidir.
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اردو · Urdu
جب (حضرت موسیٰ) ﴿علیہ السلام﴾ نے اپنی قوم سے کہا کہ اے میری قوم! بچھڑے کو معبود بنا کر تم نے اپنی جانوں پر ﻇلم کیا ہے، اب تم اپنے پیدا کرنے والے کی طرف رجوع کرو، اپنے کو آپس میں قتل کرو، تمہاری بہتری اللہ تعالیٰ کے نزدیک اسی میں ہے، تو اس نے تمہاری توبہ قبول کی، وه توبہ قبول کرنے واﻻ اور رحم وکرم کرنے واﻻ ہے۔[1]
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DIN 31635waʾiḏ qultum yā mūsā lan nuʾmina laka ḥattā narā llāha ǧahratan faʾaḫaḏatkumu ṣ-ṣāʿiqatu waʾantum tanẓurūna
Talal Itani2012 And recall that you said, "O Moses, we will not believe in you unless we see God plainly." Thereupon the thunderbolt struck you, as you looked on.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when ye said: O Moses! We will not believe in thee till we see Allah plainly; and even while ye gazed the lightning seized you
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when ye said to Moses, 'O Moses! we will not believe in thee until we see God manifestly,' and the thunderbolt caught you while ye yet looked on
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when ye said, "O Moses! we will not believe thee until we see God plainly;" the thunderbolt fell upon you while ye were looking on
George Sale1734 And when ye said, O Moses, we will not believe thee, untill we see God manifestly; therefore a punishment came upon you, while ye looked on
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0.644
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Verses above it
2,079
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6,236
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Talal Itani · George Sale0.61
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.55
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.53
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.52
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.51
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.43
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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.