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
Then We developed the seed into a clot. Then We developed the clot into a lump. Then We developed the lump into bones. Then We clothed the bones with flesh. Then We produced it into another creature. Most Blessed is God, the Best of Creators.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Then fashioned We the drop a clot, then fashioned We the clot a little lump, then fashioned We the little lump bones, then clothed the bones with flesh, and then produced it as another creation. So blessed be Allah, the Best of creators
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
then we created the clot congealed blood, and we created the congealed blood a morsel; then we created the morsel bone, and we clothed the bone with flesh then we produced it another creation; and blessed be God, the best of creators
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Then made we the moistgerm a clot of blood: then made the clotted blood into a piece of flesh; then made the piece of flesh into bones: and we clothed the bones with flesh: then broughtforthman of yet another make - Blessed therefore be God, the most excellent of Makers
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Afterwards We made the seed coagulated blood; and We formed the coagulated blood into a piece of flesh: Then We formed the piece of flesh into bones; and We cloathed those bones with flesh: Then We produced the same by another creation. Wherefore blessed be God, the most excellent creator
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 piklën e bëmë droçkë gjaku, pastaj droçkën e gjakut e bëmë copë mishi, pastaj copën e mishit e bëmë eshtra, e eshtrat i veshëm me mish, e pastaj e zhvilluam në një krijesë tjetër. Pra, i Bekuar është Allahu, Krijuesi më i mirë.
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বাংলা · Bengali
তারপর আমি (জরায়ুতে) শুক্রবিন্দুকে ‘আলাকায় (লাল জমাট রক্তে) পরিণত করেছি। তারপর ‘আলাকাকে গোশতপিণ্ডে পরিণত
করেছি। তারপর গোশতপিণ্ডকে হাড়ে পরিণত করেছি। তারপর হাড়কে গোশত দিয়ে আবৃত করেছি। অতঃপর (রূহ ফুকের মাধ্যমে জীবন দান করে) তাকে অন্য এক সৃৃষ্টিরূপে গড়ে তুলেছি। অতএব সর্বোত্তম স্রষ্টা আল্লাহ, কত বরকতময়!
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Bosanski · Bosnian
pa onda kap sjemena ugruškom učinimo, zatim od ugruška grudu mesa stvorimo, pa od grude mesa kosti napravimo, a onda kosti mesom zaodjenemo, i poslije ga, kao drugo stvorenje, oživimo – pa neka je uzvišen Allah, najljepši Stvoritelj!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
pa onda kap sjemena ugruškom učinimo, zatim od ugruška grudu mesa stvorimo, pa od grude mesa kosti napravimo, a onda kosti mesom zaodjenemo, i poslije ga, kao drugo stvorenje, oživimo – pa neka je uzvišen Allah, najljepši Stvoritelj!
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Refti Min Tagi toɓɓere nde heɗɗere, Min Tagi heɗɗere nden huyre, Min Tagi huyre nde ƴi'e, Min koltini ƴi'e ɗeteewu. Refti Min puɗɗanii mo Tagoore woo, barkanii Alla Moƴƴo Takɗo.
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ქართული · Georgian
შემდეგ ამ წვეთისგან შევქმენით სისხლის კოლტი, შემდეგ ამ სისხლის კოლტისგან შევქმენით ხორცის ნაჭერი, შემდეგ ამ ხორცის ნაჭრისგან შევქმენით ძვლები, ხოლო შემდეგ ეს ძვლები ხორცით შევმოსეთ. ამის შემდეგ იგი სხვა, ახალი ქმნილების სახით აღვზარდეთ [მასში სულის ჩაბერვით]. კურთხეულია ალლაჰი — საუკეთესო შემოქმედთა შორის საუკეთესო!
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Deutsch · German
Hierauf schufen Wir den Samentropfen zu einem Anhängsel, dann schufen Wir das Anhängsel zu einem kleinen Klumpen, dann schufen Wir den kleinen Klumpen zu Knochen, dann bekleideten Wir die Knochen mit Fleisch. Hierauf ließen Wir ihn als eine weitere Schöpfung entstehen. So sei Allah segensreich, der beste Schöpfer.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Έπειτα δημιουργήσαμε τις Νούτφα (σταγόνες εκκρίσεων των δύο φύλων) σε ‘Άλακα (κρεμάμενο θρόμβο αίματος), και δημιουργήσαμε τo ‘Άλακα σε Μούντγα (ένα κομμάτι σάρκας, που φαίνεται μασημένο), και δημιουργήσαμε το Μούντγα σε κόκκαλα, και ντύσαμε τα κόκκαλα με σάρκα, και έπειτα το κάναμε ένα άλλο νέο πλάσμα (από άψυχο πράγμα σε έναν άνθρωπο, εμφυσώντας το πνεύμα μέσα του). Ύψιστος είναι ο Αλλάχ, ο Άριστος των δημιουργών.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
फिर हमने उस वीर्य को एक जमा हुआ रक्त बनाया, फिर हमने उस जमे हुए रक्त को एक बोटी बनाया, फिर हमने उस बोटी को हड्डियाँ बनाया, फिर हमने उन हड्डियों को कुछ माँस पहनाया, फिर हमने उसे एक अन्य रूप में पैदा कर दिया। तो बहुत बरकत वाला है अल्लाह, जो बनाने वालों में सबसे अच्छा है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
poi abbiamo creato il fiotto da una larva; quindi abbiamo creato dalla larva un embrione; dopo abbiamo creato dall’embrione le ossa, che abbiamo rivestito poi di carne. Poi lo abbiamo creato in una nuova forma: gloria ad Allāh, Supremo Creatore!
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
14. Tada Mes pavertėme Nutfa į krešulį (tiršto sukrešėjusio kraujo krešuliuką), tada Mes pavertėme krešulį į mažą mėsos gumuliuką, tada Mes padarėme iš to mažo mėsos gumuliuko kaulus, tada Mes apdengėme kaulus mėsa, ir tada Mes išvedėme tai kaip dar vieną kūrinį. Taigi Palaimintas yra Allahas, Geriausias iš kūrėjų.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
затем создали из капли сгусток, затем создали из сгустка разжёванный кусочек плоти, затем создали из этого кусочка кости и облекли кости мясом, а затем создали его иным творением. Благословен Аллах — наилучший из творцов.
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Српски · Serbian
па онда кап семена угрушком створимо, затим од угрушка заквачак створимо, па од заквачка кости створимо, а онда кости месом заоденемо, и после га, као друго створење, формирамо, па нека је узвишен Аллах, Најбољи Створитељ!
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Kisha tukaliumba tone hilo kuwa damu iliyoganda, na tukaiumba damu hiyo kuwa pande la nyama, kisha tukaliumba pande hilo la nyama kuwa mifupa, na mifupa hiyo tukaivisha nyama. Kisha tukamfanya kuwa kiumbe mwingine. Basi Mwenyezi Mungu ni Mwingi wa baraka, Mbora zaidi wa waumbaji.
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Svenska · Swedish
Droppen formade vi till en blodklump, och blodklumpen till en bit kött. I denna formade vi så benen som vi sedan täckte med kött, och till sist låter vi henne framstå som en helt ny skapelse. Upphöjd är Gud, från vilken all välsignelse kommer – den bäste av skapare!
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Türkçe · Turkish
Sonra nutfeyi/spermi, alaka/embriyo haline getirdik. Embriyoyu bir çiğnem et parçası yaptık. Et parçasından kemik yarattık. Kemiğe et giydirdik. Sonra onu (ruh vererek) bambaşka bir varlık olarak yarattık. Yaratanların en güzeli olan Allah pek yücedir!
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اردو · Urdu
پھر نطفہ کو ہم نے جما ہوا خون بنا دیا، پھر اس خون کے لوتھڑے کو گوشت کا ٹکڑا کردیا۔ پھر گوشت کے ٹکڑے کو ہڈیاں بنا دیں، پھر ہڈیوں کو ہم نے گوشت پہنا دیا[1] ، پھر دوسری بناوٹ میں اس کو پیدا کردیا[2]۔ برکتوں واﻻ ہے وه اللہ جو سب سے بہترین پیدا کرنے واﻻ ہے.[3]
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Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.67
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.62
Talal Itani · George Sale0.62
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.62
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.56
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.50
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.48
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.44
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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.