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
He said, "Begone! Your lot in this life is to say, 'No contact.' And you have an appointment that you will not miss. Now look at your god that you remained devoted to-we will burn it up, and then blow it away into the sea, as powder."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
(Moses) said: Then go! and lo! in this life it is for thee to say: Touch me not! and lo! there is for thee a tryst thou canst not break. Now look upon thy god of which thou hast remained a votary. Verily we will burn it and will scatter its dust over the sea
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
Said he, 'Then get thee gone; verily, it shall be thine in life to say, "Touch me not!" and, verily, for thee there is a threat which thou shalt surely never alter. But look at thy god to which thou wert just now devout; we will surely burn it, and then we will scatter it in scattered pieces in the sea
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
He said, "Begone then: verily thy doom even in this life shall be to say, 'Touch me not.' And there is a threat against thee, which thou shalt not escape hereafter. Now look at thy god to which thou hast continued so devoted: we will surely burn it and reduce it to ashes, which we will cast into the sea
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Moses said, get thee gone; for thy punishment in this life shall be, that thou shalt say unto those who shall meet thee, touch me not; and a threat is denounced against thee of more terriblepains, in the life to come, which thou shalt by no means escape. And behold now thy god, to whose worship thou hast continued assiduously devoted: Verily we will burn it; and we will reduce it to powder, and scatter it in the sea
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
Musai tha: "Ik atëherë! Gjatë tërë jetës ty do të të duhet të thuash: "Mos më prekni!" Por, ty të është caktuar një takim (për llogaridhënie), të cilit nuk mund t'i shpëtosh. Shikoje zotin tënd, para të cilit qëndrove duke e adhuruar: Ne do ta djegim tërësisht atë, pastaj do ta hedhim në det.
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বাংলা · Bengali
মূসা (সামিরীকে) বললো: ‘তুমি এখান থেকে চলে যাও। তোমার শাস্তি হলো, জীবদ্দশায় তুমি বলতে থাকবে, ‘আমাকে স্পর্শ করো না।’ আর তোমার জন্য একটা নির্দিষ্ট সময় (কিয়ামতের দিন) রইলো যার কখনো ব্যতিক্রম হবে না। আর তুমি তোমার (গো-বাছুর) ইলাহের প্রতি চেয়ে দেখো, যার পূজায় তুমি রত ছিলে, আমরা তা অবশ্যই জ্বালিয়ে দিবো। তারপর বিক্ষিপ্ত করে তা সাগরে নিক্ষেপ করবোই।’
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.
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Bosanski · Bosnian
“E onda se gubi!”, reče Musa. “Čitavog svog života govorit ćeš: ‘Neka me niko ne dotiče!’ – a čeka te još i određeni čas koji te neće mimoići. Pogledaj samo ovog tvog ‘boga’ kojem si se klanjao; mi ćemo ga, sigurno, spaliti i po moru mu prah rasuti.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
“E onda se gubi!” reče Mojsije. “Čitavog svog života govorit ćeš: ‘Neka me nitko ne dotiče!’ – a čeka te još i određeni čas koji te neće mimoići. Pogledaj samo ovog tvog ‘boga’ kojem si se klanjao; mi ćemo ga, sigurno, spaliti i po moru mu prah rasuti.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
[Muusaa] maaki: "Yahu, pellet, no woodanmaa ka ngurndam nde wowlataa wanaa meemondiral, pellet, no woodanmaa kadi Fodoore a lunndataako nde, ndaarii fa'ade e dewteeɗo maa, on mo ñalluɗaa ufinaade e hoore mun, mi woondii mi sumat mo refti mi ƴaroo mo ka maayo e ƴaragol".
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ქართული · Georgian
(მუსამ) უთხრა (სამირიელს): «წადი! უეჭველად, ამ ცხოვრებაში შენი ხვედრი იქნება, რომ ყოველ შემხვედრს ეუბნებოდე: "არ შემეხოთ და არც მე შეგეხებით!" [რათა დარჩენილი სიცოცხლე მარტოობაში გაატარო, როგორც სასჯელი უკვე ამქვეყნად]. და უეჭველად, შენთვის დადგენილია ვადა, რომელიც არ შეიცვლება, და მას აუცილებლად შეხვდები, სადაც სხვა სასჯელს მიიღებ. და შეხედე შენს ღვთაებას, რომელსაც ასე ერთგულად ეთაყვანებოდი: ჩვენ უთუოდ დავწვავთ მას, შემდეგ კი მის ფერფლს ზღვაში გავფანტავთ».
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Er (also Musa) sagte: „Nun geh weg! So ist dir im Leben vorgeschrieben, zu sagen: ,Berührt mich nicht!‘ Und du hast eine Verabredung, die dir nicht gebrochen wird. Und schau auf deinen Angebeteten, dessen Andacht du dich dauernd hingegeben hast. Wir werden ihn ganz gewiss verbrennen, und hierauf werden wir ihn ganz gewiss in das große Gewässer streuen.
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 Μωυσής) είπε: «Φύγε! Θα έχεις ως τιμωρία σ' αυτή τη ζωή ότι θα πεις: «Μη με αγγίζει κανείς (ούτε να αγγίζω κανέναν)» [δηλ. θα ζει απόκληρος]. Και θα έχεις μία καθορισμένη ώρα (την Ημέρα της Κρίσεως), που δε θα της ξεφύγεις. Κοίτα τον λεγόμενο θεό σου, που τον λάτρεψες, θα τον κάψουμε και μετά θα τον σκορπίσουμε στο νερό (και δε θα υπάρχει κανένα ίχνος γι' αυτόν).»
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
हिन्दी · Hindi
(मूसा ने) कहा : "बस चला जा, निःसंदेह तेरे लिए जीवन भर यह है कि तू कहता रहे : मुझे स्पर्श न करना।[34] और निःसंदेह तेरे लिए एक और भी वादा[35] है, जो तुझसे कदापि न टलेगा। तथा अपने पूज्य को देख, जिसका तू पुजारी बना रहा, निश्चय हम उसे अवश्य अच्छी तरह जलाएँगे, फिर निश्चय ही उसे समुद्र में अच्छी तरह से उड़ा देंगे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Disse: «Vattene! In verità tu in vita avrai il diritto di dire: ‘Non toccarmi!’ E in verità avrai un termine che non verrà rimandato. E guarda al tuo idolo, che ti dedichi ad adorare, lo bruceremo, poi sparpaglieremo i resti in mare.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
97. Mūsa (Mozė) tarė: „Tada eik lauk! Ir iš tiesų, tau (bausmė) šiame gyvenime bus tai, kad tu sakysi: „Neliesk manęs (t. y. tu gyvensi vienas, atskirtas nuo žmonių), ir iš tiesų (bausmė ateityje) tau skirtas pažadas, kuris nežlugs. Ir pažiūrėk į savo ilah (dievą), kuriam buvai pasišventęs. Mes tikrai jį sudeginsime, ir išbarstysime jo dalis jūroje.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
(Muusaan) ni jedhe: “Deemi jireenya keessatti ‘Nan tuqinaa jechaa jiraachuun siif tahaadha.’ ammas siif beellama ati hin hanbifamnetu siif jira. Gara gabbaramaa kee isa gabbaraa turtee ilaali, Nuti dhugumatti, isa gubna; eegasii (caccabaa isaa) galaana keessatti facaasinsa facaafna.” [15]
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Русский · Russian
Он сказал: «Ступай же! Воистину, в этой жизни тебе [суждено] говорить: “Не прикасайтесь!” И, воистину, тебе назначен срок, который не будет нарушен. А теперь посмотри на своего бога, которому ты неотступно поклонялся: мы непременно сожжём его, а затем непременно развеем его в море полностью.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
“Губи се одавде!” Рече Мојсије. “Читавог свог живота говорићеш: ‘Нека ме нико не дотиче!’ – А чека те још и одређени час који те неће мимоићи. Погледај само ово твоје божанство које си обожавао; ми ћемо га, сигурно, спалити и по мору му прах расути.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
(Musa) akasema: Basi ondoka! Na kwa yakini utakuwa katika maisha ukisema: Usiniguse. Na hakika una ahadi kwako isiyovunjwa. Na mtazame huyo mungu wako uliyeendelea kumuabudu. Sisi kwa hakika tutamchoma moto, kisha tutamtawanya sawasawa baharini.
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Svenska · Swedish
Han sa: ”Bort härifrån! I detta liv är [ditt straff att du ska vara utstött] och ropa: 'Kom inte nära mig!' Och du har en bestämd tid [för räkenskap i nästa liv] som du inte kan undkomma. Se nu på din gud, som du innerligt dyrkade – vi ska bränna den och sprida dess aska i havet.”
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
Mûsâ: "Haydi git. Artık (ceza olarak) hayatın boyunca bana dokunmayın diyeceksin. Bir de senin için hiç kaçamayacağın bir azap günü var. Üzerine sarılıp ibadet ettiğin ilahına bir bak, şimdi onu yakacağız. Sonra parça parça edip denize savuracağız." dedi.
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اردو · Urdu
کہا اچھا جا دنیا کی زندگی میں تیری سزا یہی ہے کہ تو کہتا رہے کہ مجھے نہ چھونا[1] ، اور ایک اور بھی وعده تیرے ساتھ ہے جو تجھ سے ہر گز نہ ٹلے گا[2]، اور اب تو اپنے اس معبود کو بھی دیکھ لینا جس کا اعتکاف کیے ہوئے تھا کہ ہم اسے جلا کر دریا میں ریزه ریزه اڑا دیں گے.[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
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same edition and their orthography differs.
Easy-read (simplified)qaala basurtu bimaa lam yabsuroo bihi faqabadtu qabdatan min athari r-rasooli fanabadhtuhaa wakadhaalika sawwalat lee nafsee
DIN 31635qāla baṣurtu bimā lam yabṣurū bihi faqabaḍtu qabḍatan min ʾaṯari r-rasūli fanabaḏtuhā wakaḏālika sawwalat lī nafsī
Talal Itani2012 He said, "I saw what they did not see, so I grasped a handful from the Messenger's traces, and I flung it away. Thus my soul prompted me."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He said: I perceived what they perceive not, so I seized a handful from the footsteps of the messenger, and then threw it in. Thus my soul commended to me
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Said he, 'I beheld what they beheld not, and I grasped a handful from the footprint of the messenger and cast it; for thus my soul induced me
John Medows Rodwell1861 He said, "I saw what they saw not: so I took a handful of dust from the track of the messenger of God, and flung it into the calf, for so my soul prompted me
George Sale1734 He answered, I saw that which they saw not; wherefore I took a handful of dust from the footsteps of the messenger of God, and I cast it into the molten calf; for so did my mind direct me
Easy-read (simplified)kadhaalika naqussu 'alayka min anbaa'i maa qad sabaqa waqad aataynaaka min ladunnaa dhikraa
DIN 31635kaḏālika naquṣṣu ʿalayka min ʾanbāʾi mā qad sabaqa waqad ʾātaynāka min ladunnā ḏikran
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Thus We narrate to you reports of times gone by; and We have given you a message from Our Presence.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Thus relate We unto thee (Muhammad) some tidings of that which happened of old, and We have given thee from Our presence a reminder
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Thus do we narrate to thee the history of what has gone before, and we have brought thee a reminder from us
John Medows Rodwell1861 Thus do We recite to thee histories of what passed of old; and from ourself have we given thee admonition
George Sale1734 Thus do we recite unto thee, O Mohammed, relations of what hath passed heretofore; and we have given thee an admonition from us
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 —
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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 Sale0.75
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.71
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.69
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.59
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.58
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.58
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.54
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.49
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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.