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Talal Itani· published 2012
Pharaoh turned away, put together his plan, and then came back.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Then Pharaoh went and gathered his strength, then came (to the appointedtryst)
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
But Pharaoh turned his back, and collected his tricks, and then he came
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And Pharaoh turned away from Moses, and gathered together the most expertmagicians, to execute his stratagem; and then came to the appointment
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
Faraoni shkoi dhe thuri planin e vet e pastaj erdhi (në pikëtakim).
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বাংলা · Bengali
অতঃপর ফিরা‘ঊন উঠে গেলো। তারপর সে তার কৌশল একত্র করলো, তারপর সে (নির্দিষ্ট স্থানে ও সময়ে প্রতিযোগিতার জন্য) আসলো।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
I faraon se okrenu, sakupi čarobnjake svoje i poslije dođe.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
I faraon se okrenu, sakupi čarobnjake svoje i poslije dođe.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Fir'awna ruŋiti o mooɓi pewje makko ɗen refti o ari.
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ქართული · Georgian
გაბრუნდა ფარაონი და მთელ თავის მზაკვრობას [ჯადოქრებს] უხმო, შემდეგ მოვიდა.
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Deutsch · German
Da kehrte sich Fir'aun ab, und dann sammelte er seine ganze List zusammen. Hierauf kam er.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Έτσι, ο Φαραώ έφυγε και προχώρησε με αποφασιστικότητα στο σχέδιό του (και μάζεψε τους μάγους του) και μετά ήρθε (στη συνάντηση).
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हिन्दी · Hindi
फिर फ़िरऔन वापस लौटा,[16] उसने अपने सारे हथकंडे जुटाए, फिर आ गया।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
Così il Faraone rientrò, e preparò il suo piano, poi ritornò.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
60. Taigi Firaun (Faraonas) atsitraukė, surengė savo sąmokslą ir tada grįžo.
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Русский · Russian
И Фараон удалился и собрал свои ухищрения, а затем пришёл.
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Српски · Serbian
И фараон оде, сакупи своје чаробњаке и после дође.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Basi Firauni akageuka akarudi, na akatengeneza hila yake, kisha akaja.
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Svenska · Swedish
Då drog sig Farao tillbaka för att lägga upp sina strategier och sedan anlände han [med sina magiker].
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Türkçe · Turkish
Firavun dönüp hilesini topladı, sonra geldi.
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اردو · Urdu
پس فرعون لوٹ گیا اور اس نے اپنے ہتھکنڈے جمع کیے پھر آگیا.[1]
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Talal Itani2012 We will produce for you magic like it; so make an appointment between us and you, which we will not miss-neither us, nor you-in a central place."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But we surely can produce for thee magic the like thereof; so appoint a tryst between us and you, which neither we nor thou shall fail to keep, at a place convenient (to us both)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Then we will bring you magic like it; and we will make between us and thee an appointment; we will not break it, nor do thou either;-a fair place
John Medows Rodwell1861 Therefore will we assuredly confront thee with like enchantments: so appoint a meeting between us and you - we will not fail it, we, and do not thou - in a place alike for both
George Sale1734 Verily we will meet thee with the like enchantments: Wherefore fix an appointment between us and thee; we will not fail it, neither shalt thou, in an equal place
DIN 31635qāla mawʿidukum yawmu z-zīnati waʾan yuḥšara n-nāsu ḍuḥan
Talal Itani2012 He said, "Your appointment is the day of the festival, so let the people be gathered together at mid-morning."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 (Moses) said: Your tryst shall be the day of the feast, and let the people assemble when the sun hath risen high
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Said he, 'Let your appointment be for the day of adornment, and let the people assemble in the forenoon
John Medows Rodwell1861 He said, "On the feast day be your meeting, and in broad daylight let the people be assembled
George Sale1734 Moses answered, let your appointment be on the day of your solemn feast; and let the people be assembled in open day
Talal Itani2012 Moses said to them, "Woe to you. Do not fabricate lies against God, or He will destroy you with a punishment. He who invents lies will fail."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Moses said unto them: Woe unto you! Invent not a lie against Allah, lest He extirpate you by some punishment. He who lieth faileth miserably
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Said Moses to them, 'Woe to you! do not forge against God a lie; lest He destroy you by torment; for disappointed has ever been he who has forged
John Medows Rodwell1861 Said Moses to them, "Woe to you! devise not a lie against God: For then will he destroy you by a punishment. They who have lied have ever perished
George Sale1734 Moses said unto them, woe be unto you! Do not devise a lie against God, lest he utterly destroy you by some judgment: For he shall not prosper who deviseth lies
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 —
0.66 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
computed, not judged.
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
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.75
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.75
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.72
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.72
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.71
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.65
Talal Itani · George Sale0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.54
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.54
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.53
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
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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.