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Talal Itani· published 2012
But when Moses came to them with Our signs, clear and manifest, they said, "This is nothing but fabricated magic, and We never heard of this from our ancestors of old."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
But when Moses came unto them with Our clear tokens, they said: This is naught but invented magic. We never heard of this among our fathers of old
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 when Moses came to them with our manifest signs, they said, 'This is only sorcery devised; and we have not heard of this amongst our fathers of yore
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And when Moses came unto them with our evident signs, they said, this is no other than a deceitfulpiece of sorcery: Neither have we heard of any thing like this among our fore-fathers
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
Por, kur Musai u vajti atyre me mrekullitë Tona të qarta, ata thanë: "Kjo s'është gjë tjetër, veçse magji e shpikur dhe ne kurrë nuk kemi dëgjuar diçka të tillë prej të parëve tanë."
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বাংলা · Bengali
অতঃপর মূসা যখন তাদের কাছে আমার সুস্পষ্ট নিদর্শনসমূহ নিয়ে আসলো, তখন তারা বললো: ‘এ তো মিথ্যা যাদু ছাড়া আর কিছুই নয় এবং এরূপ কথা আমাদের পিতৃপুরুষদের মধ্যেও শুনিনি।’
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Bosanski · Bosnian
I kad im Musa donese Naše jasne dokaze, oni povikaše: “Ovo je samo smišljena čarolija, nismo čuli da se ovakvo nešto dešavalo u doba predaka naših!”
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Hrvatski · Croatian
I kad im Mojsije donese Naše jasne dokaze, oni povikaše: “Ovo je samo smišljena čarolija, nismo čuli da se ovakvo nešto dešavalo u doba predaka naših!”
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Nde Muusaa addunoo e maɓɓe aayeeje Amen ɗen ɓannguɗe, ɓe mbi'i: "Ɗum wonaani, si wonaa mbilewu fekindaangu. Min naniraani ɗum baabiraaɓe amen adinooɓe ɓen".
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ქართული · Georgian
და როცა მივიდა მუსა მათთან ჩვენი ცხადი სასწაულებით, მათ თქვეს: «ეს მხოლოდ გამოგონილი ჯადოქრობაა. არაფერი გვსმენია ამის შესახებ ჩვენი წინაპრებისგან».
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Deutsch · German
Als dann Musa mit Unseren Zeichen als klare Beweise kam, sagten sie: „Das ist nur ersonnene Zauberei. Und wir haben dies bei unseren Vorvätern nicht gehört.“
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Όταν ο Μωυσής ήρθε σ' αυτούς με τα ξεκάθαρα Σημάδια Μας, είπαν: «Αυτό δεν είναι παρά επινοημένη μαγεία (του Μωυσή). Δεν έχουμε ακούσει κάτι τέτοιο από τους προγόνους μας.»
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हिन्दी · Hindi
फिर जब मूसा उनके पास हमारी खुली निशानियाँ लेकर आए, तो उन्होंने कहा : यह तो बस एक मनगढ़ंत जादू है और हमने इसे अपने पहले बाप-दादों में नहीं सुना।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Quando Mūsā arrivò da loro coi Nostri chiari segni, dissero: «Questa non è che magia inventata, e non abbiamo mai sentito (di) questo dai nostri predecessori».
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
36. Tada kai Mūsa (Mozė) atėjo pas juos su Aiškiais Mūsų Ajat (įrodymais, įkalčiais, eilutėmis, pamokomis, ženklais, apreiškimais ir t. t.), jie tarė: „Tai yra niekis, tik sukurta magija. Niekada mes negirdėjome apie tai iš mūsų senovės tėvų.“
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Yeroma Muusaan mallattoolee keenya ifa taateen isaanitti dhufu “kun sihrii kijibame (uumame) malee waan biraatii miti, Waa’ee kanaa abbootii keenya kan durii keessatti dhageenyee hin beeknu” jedhan.
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Русский · Russian
Когда же Муса явился к ним с Нашими ясными знамениями, они сказали: «Это — не что иное, как выдуманное колдовство, и мы не слышали об этом у наших предков!»
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Српски · Serbian
И кад им Мојсије донесе Наше јасне доказе, они повикаше: „Ово је само смишљена магија, нисмо чули да се овако нешто дешавало у доба наших предака!“
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Basi Musa alipowafikia na Ishara zetu, walisema, "Haya si chochote isipokuwa ni uchawi uliozuliwa. Na hatukuyasikia haya kwa baba zetu wa zamani."
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Svenska · Swedish
När Mose kom till dem med våra klara tecken sa de: ”Detta är bara magiska påfund och vi har inte hört talas om detta bland våra förfäder.”
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Türkçe · Turkish
Mûsâ onlara apaçık ayetlerimizle gelince dediler ki: “Bu ancak düzmece bir büyüdür. Biz önceki atalarımız arasında da böylesini işitmemişiz.”
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اردو · Urdu
پس جب ان کے پاس موسیٰ (علیہ السلام) ہمارے دیے ہوئے کھلے معجزے لے کر پہنچے تو وه کہنے لگے یہ تو صرف گھڑا گھڑایا جادو ہے ہم نے اپنے اگلے باپ دادوں کے زمانہ میں کبھی یہ نہیں سنا.[1]
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Easy-read (simplified)wa'akhee haaroonu huwa afsahu minnee lisaanan fa'arsilhu ma'iya rid'an yusaddiqunee innee akhaafu an yukadhdhiboon
DIN 31635waʾaḫī hārūnu huwa ʾafṣaḥu minnī lisānan faʾarsilhu maʿiya ridʾan yuṣaddiqunī ʾinnī ʾaḫāfu ʾan yukaḏḏibūni
Talal Itani2012 And my brother Aaron, he is more eloquent than me, so send him with me, to help me, and to confirm my words, for I fear they will reject me."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 My brother Aaron is more eloquent than me in speech. Therefor send him with me as a helper to confirm me. Lo! I fear that they will give the lie to me
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and my brother Aaron, he is more eloquent of tongue than I; send him then with me as a support, to verify me; verily, I fear that they will call me liar
John Medows Rodwell1861 My brother Aaron is clearer of speech than I. Send him, therefore, with me as a help, and to make good my cause, for I fear lest they treat me as an impostor
George Sale1734 But my brother Aaron is of a more eloquent tongue than I am; wherefore send him with me for an assistant, that he may gain me credit; for I fear lest they accuse me of imposture
Talal Itani2012 He said, "We will strengthen your arm with your brother, and We will give you authority, so they will not touch you. By virtue of Our signs, you and those who follow you will be the triumphant."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He said: We will strengthen thine arm with thy brother, and We will give unto you both power so that they cannot reach you for Our portents. Ye twain, and those who follow you, will be the winners
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Said He, 'We will strengthen thine arm with thy brother; and we will make for you both authority, and they shall not reach you in our signs; ye two and those who follow you shall gain the upper hand
John Medows Rodwell1861 He said, "We will strengthen thine arm with thy brother, and we will give power unto you both, and they shall not equal you in our signs. Ye twain and they who shall follow you, shall gain the day
George Sale1734 God said, We will strengthen thine arm by thy brother, and We will give each of you extraordinary power, so that they shall not come up to you, in our signs. Ye two, and whoever shall follow you, shall be the conquerors
DIN 31635waqāla mūsā rabbī ʾaʿlamu biman ǧāʾa bil-hudā min ʿindihi waman takūnu lahu ʿāqibatu d-dāri ʾinnahu lā yufliḥu ẓ-ẓālimūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Moses said, "My Lord is well aware of him who brings guidance from Him, and him who will have the sequel of the abode. The wrongdoers will not succeed."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And Moses said: My Lord is Best Aware of him who bringeth guidance from His presence, and whose will be the sequel of the Home (of bliss). Lo! wrong-doers will not be successful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Moses said, 'My Lord knows best who comes with guidance from Him, and whose shall be the issue of the abode. Verily, the unjust shall not prosper
John Medows Rodwell1861 And Moses said, "My Lord best knoweth on whom He hath bestowed His guidance, and whose shall be the recompense of the abode of Paradise. Verily, the wicked shall not prosper
George Sale1734 And Moses said, My Lord best knoweth who cometh with a direction from Him; and who shall have success in this life, as well as the next: But the unjust shall not prosper
Easy-read (simplified)waqaala fir'awnu yaa ayyuhaa l-mala'u maa 'alimtu lakum min ilaahin ghayree fa'awqid lee yaa haamaanu 'alaa t-teeni faj'al lee sarhan la'allee attali'u ilaa ilaahi moosaa wa'innee la'azunnuhu mina l-kaadhibeen
DIN 31635waqāla firʿawnu yā ʾayyuhā l-malaʾu mā ʿalimtu lakum min ʾilāhin ġayrī faʾawqid lī yā hāmānu ʿalā ṭ-ṭīni faǧʿal lī ṣarḥan laʿallī ʾaṭṭaliʿu ʾilā ʾilāhi mūsā waʾinnī laʾaẓunnuhu mina l-kāḏibīna
Talal Itani2012 Pharaoh said, "O nobles, I know of no god for you other than me. So fire-up the bricks for me O Hamaan, and build me a tower, that I may ascend to the God of Moses, though I think he is a liar."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And Pharaoh said: O chiefs! I know not that ye have a god other than me, so kindle for me (a fire), O Haman, to bake the mud; and set up for me a lofty tower in order that I may survey the god of Moses; and lo! I deem him of the liars
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And Pharaoh said, 'O ye chiefs! I do not know any god for you except me; then set fire, O Haman! to some clay and make for me a tower, haply I may mount up to the God of Moses; for, verity, I think he is of those who lie
John Medows Rodwell1861 And Pharaoh said, "O ye nobles, ye have no other God that I know of but myself. Burn me then, Haman, bricks of clay, and build me a tower that I may mount up to the God of Moses, for in sooth, I deem him a liar
George Sale1734 And Pharaoh said, O princes, I did not know that ye had any other god besides me. Wherefore do thou, O Haman, burn me clay into bricks; and build me a high tower, that I may ascend unto the God of Moses: For I verily believe him to be a liar
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 —
0.56 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
Talal Itani · George Sale0.65
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.60
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.55
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.54
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.51
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.49
Talal Itani · 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.