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Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Then they debated one with another what they must do, and they kept their counsel secret
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
And they argued their matter among themselves; and secretly talked it over
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And the magicians disputedconcerning their affair among themselves, and discoursed in private
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
Atëherë, ata e diskutuan këtë çështje mes tyre, duke pëshpëritur fshehurazi.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
তখন তারা (যাদুকররা) নিজেদের মধ্যে তাদের কর্ম সম্বন্ধে বাক-বিতণ্ডা করলো এবং তারা গোপনে পরামর্শ করলো।
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
I oni se, tiho šapćući, stadoše o svom poslu između sebe raspravljati.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
I oni se, tiho šapćući, stadoše o svom poslu između sebe raspravljati.
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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
ქართული · Georgian
და [ჯადოქრებმა] განიხილეს ერთმანეთში თავიანთი საქმე და საიდუმლოდ ითათბირეს და თავიანთი საუბარი საიდუმლოდ შეინახეს.
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Deutsch · German
Da stritten sie (also die Zauberer) untereinander über ihre Angelegenheit und führten insgeheim vertrauliche Gespräche.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Έτσι, συζήτησαν (οι μάγοι) μεταξύ τους για το θέμα τους αμφισβητώντας (αν ο Μωυσής είναι αλήθεια Προφήτης ή όχι, και τι θα πρέπει να κάνουν) και κράτησαν τη συνομιλία τους ιδιωτική.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
तो वे अपने मामले में आपस में मतभेद करने लगे[17] और उन्होंने चुपके-चुपके कानाफूसी की।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Così discussero tra loro sul da farsi, di nascosto.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
62. Tada jie ginčijosi vienas su kitu, ką turėtų daryti, ir laikė savo kalbas paslaptyje.
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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 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Они стали спорить о своём деле между собой и тайно переговаривались.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
И они су стали да се расправљају међу собом, тихо шапћући.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Basi wakazozana wenyewe kwa wenyewe kuhusiana na jambo lao hilo, na wakanong'ona kwa siri.
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Svenska · Swedish
Då råkade de i dispyt med varandra om sin plan och de höll sitt samtal hemligt.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Sihirbazlar durumlarını aralarında tartışarak gizlice fısıldaştılar.
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اردو · Urdu
پس یہ لوگ آپس کے مشوروں میں مختلف رائے ہوگئے اور چھﭗ کر چپکے چپکے مشوره کرنے لگے.[1]
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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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DIN 31635fatawallā firʿawnu faǧamaʿa kaydahu ṯumma ʾatā
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Pharaoh turned away, put together his plan, and then came back.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Then Pharaoh went and gathered his strength, then came (to the appointed tryst)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But Pharaoh turned his back, and collected his tricks, and then he came
John Medows Rodwell1861 And Pharaoh turned away, and collected his craftsmen and came
George Sale1734 And Pharaoh turned away from Moses, and gathered together the most expert magicians, to execute his stratagem; and then came to the appointment
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
Easy-read (simplified)qaaloo in haadhaani lasaahiraani yureedaani an yukhrijaakum min ardikum bisihrihimaa wayadhhabaa bitareeqatikumu l-muthlaa
DIN 31635qālū ʾin hāḏāni lasāḥirāni yurīdāni ʾan yuḫriǧākum min ʾarḍikum bisiḥrihimā wayaḏhabā biṭarīqatikumu l-muṯlā
Talal Itani2012 They said, "These two are magicians who want to drive you out of your land with their magic, and to abolish your exemplary way of life.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 They said: Lo! these are two wizards who would drive you out from your country by their magic, and destroy your best traditions
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Said they, 'These twain are certainly two magicians, who wish to turn you out of your land by their magic, and to remove your most exemplary doctrine
John Medows Rodwell1861 They said, "These two are surely sorcerers: fain would they drive you from your land by their sorceries, and lead away in their paths your chiefest men
George Sale1734 And they said, these two are certainly magicians: They seek to dispossess you of your land by their sorcery, and to lead away with them your chiefest and most considerable men
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 —
0.80 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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.92
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.89
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.89
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.86
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.86
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.86
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.79
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.71
Talal Itani · George Sale0.71
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.50
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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.