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Talal Itani· published 2012
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."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
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
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 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
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
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 verilybelieve him to be a liar
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 tha: "Oj pari! Unë nuk di që ka për ju tjetër zot përveç meje. Më ndiz pra, o Haman, një zjarr për të pjekur tullat dhe më ndërto një kullë të lartë që të ngjitem e të shoh Zotin e Musait, ndonëse unë mendoj se ai është gënjeshtar!"
Translated by the team of 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 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আর ফির‘আউন বললো: ‘হে পরিষদবর্গ! আমি ছাড়া তোমাদের কোনো ইলাহ আছে বলে তো আমি জানি না। অতএব হে হামান! তুমি আমার জন্য মাটি পুড়িয়ে ইট বানাও, তারপর আমার জন্য একটি সুউচ্চ প্রাসাদ তৈরি করো, যাতে আমি মূসার ইলাহকে দেখতে পারি। আর নিশ্চয় আমি মনে করি সে মিথ্যাবাদীদের অন্তর্ভুক্ত।’
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
“O velikaši”, reče faraon, “ja ne znam da vi imate drugog boga osim mene. A ti, o Hamane, peci mi opeke i sagradi mi toranj da se popnem k Musaovu Bogu, jer ja mislim da je on, zaista, lažac!”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
“O velikaši,” reče faraon, “ja ne znam da vi imate drugog boga osim mene. A ti, o Hamane, peci mi opeke i sagradi mi toranj da se popnem k Mojsijevu Bogu, jer ja mislim da je on, zaista, lažac!”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Fir'awna wi'i: "eey mon dental, mi anndanaa on deweteeɗo, si wonaa min. Eey ma yo Haamaana, huɓɓinanam [yiite] e loopal ngal, mahiranaa kam huɓeere toownde, no gasa ka mi ƴellitoo e Deweteeɗo Muusaa On; tawde miɗo sikki mo e fenooɓe ɓen".
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
ფარაონმა უთხრა «ო, დიდებულნო, მე არ ვიცი თქვენთვის სხვა ღვთაება ჩემს გარდა. ჰეი, ჰამან! დაანთე ჩემთვის ცეცხლი თიხაზე და ამიგე კოშკი, რათა ეგების დავინახო მუსას ღმერთი, თუმცაღა ვფიქრობ, რომ იგი [მუსა] მატყუართაგანია».
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 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und Fir'aun sagte: „O ihr führende Schar, keinen anderen Anbetungswürdigen kenne ich für euch als mich (selbst). So entfache mir, o Haman, einen Brand auf Lehm, und mache mir einen Hochbau, auf dass ich zum Angebeteten Musas emporsteige. Ich glaube jedoch, dass er fürwahr zu den Lügnern gehört.“
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 Φαραώ είπε: «Ω, αρχηγοί! Δε γνωρίζω να υπάρχει κανένας άλλος θεός για σας εκτός από μένα. Ω, Χαμάν! Άναψε φωτιά στη λάσπη, και χτίσε μου έναν πύργο, ίσως να δω τον Θεό του Μωυσή, γιατί νομίζω ότι είναι από τους ψεύτες.»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा फ़िरऔन ने कहा : ऐ प्रमुखो! मैंने अपने सिवा तुम्हारे लिए कोई पूज्य नहीं जाना। तो ऐ हामान! मेरे लिए मिट्टी पर आग जला, फिर मेरे लिए एक ऊँचा भवन बना, ताकि मैं मूसा के पूज्य को झाँककर देखूँ। और निःसंदेह मैं निश्चय उसे झूठों में से समझता हूँ।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E disse il Faraone: «O cortigiani, non conosco, all’infuori di me, nessun’altra divinità. Cuocimi, o Hàmàn, dei mattoni d’argilla sul fuoco e costruisci per me una torre, così che io possa salire per vedere il Dio di Mūsā, e in verità io sospetto che sia un impostore».
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
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
38. Firaun (Faraonas) tarė: „Vyrensieji, aš nežinau, kad jūs turite ilah (dievą) kitą nei mane. Taigi užkurkite man (ugnį), Hamane, iškepkit (plytas iš) molio, ir pastatykit man Sarh (prabangų bokštą arba rūmus) tam, kad aš galėčiau pažiūrėti į (arba paieškoti) Mūsos (Mozės) Ilah (Dievą). Ir iš tiesų, aš manau, kad jis [Mūsa (Mozė)] yra vienas iš melagių.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Fir’awna nijedhe “isin yaa qondaaltota! Ana malee gabbaramaa biraa isiniif hin beeku,Yaa Haamaan! Dhoqqee irratti ibidda naaf bobeessii (xuubii tolchi) gamoo dheeraa naaf godhi; gara Rabbii Muusaa olbahuun koo ni kajeelama. ani kijibdoota irraa ta’uun isa yaada” jedhe.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
И Фараон сказал: «О знать! Я не знаю для вас иного божества, кроме меня. Обожги же мне, о Хаман, глину и построй для меня башню, — быть может, я поднимусь и взгляну на бога Мусы! И, воистину, я считаю его одним из лжецов!»
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 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
„О великани“, рече фараон, „ја не знам да ви имате другог бога осим мене а ти, о Хамане, пеци за мене опеке и сагради ми торањ да се попнем ка Мојсијевом Богу, јер ја мислим да је он, заиста, један од лажова!“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na Firauni akasema, "Enyi waheshimiwa, sijawahi kujua kama mnaye mungu asiyekuwa mimi. Ewe Haman, niwashie moto unichomee udongo, unijengee mnara nipate kumchungulia mungu wa Musa. Na hakika mimi ninamwona yeye ni katika waongo."
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Svenska · Swedish
Farao sa: ”Stormän! Jag känner inte till någon annan gud för er än mig själv. Bränn lera åt mig, Hāmān, och bygg ett högt torn så kan jag kanske få syn på Moses Gud, fast jag egentligen tror att han ljuger.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Firavun da: "Ey ileri gelenler! Sizin için benden başka ilah tanımıyorum. Ey Hâman! Çamur üzerine benim için bir ateş yak ve bana bir kule yap. Belki Mûsâ’nın ilahına ulaşabilirim. Çünkü ben onun yalancılardan olduğunu sanıyorum." dedi.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
فرعون کہنے لگا اے درباریو! میں تو اپنے سوا کسی کو تمہارا معبود نہیں جانتا۔ سن اے ہامان! تو میرے لیے مٹی کو آگ سے پکوا[1] پھر میرے لیے ایک محل تعمیر کر تو میں موسیٰ کے معبود کو جھانک لوں[2] اسے میں تو جھوٹوں میں سے ہی گمان کر رہا ہوں.[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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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Talal Itani2012 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."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 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
Edward Henry Palmer1880 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
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when Moses came to him with our demonstrative signs they said, "This is nought but magical device. We never heard the like among our sires of old
George Sale1734 And when Moses came unto them with our evident signs, they said, this is no other than a deceitful piece of sorcery: Neither have we heard of any thing like this among our fore-fathers
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
DIN 31635wastakbara huwa waǧunūduhu fī l-ʾarḍi biġayri l-ḥaqqi waẓannū ʾannahum ʾilaynā lā yurǧaʿūna
Talal Itani2012 He and his troops acted arrogantly in the land, with no justification. They thought they would not be returned to Us.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And he and his hosts were haughty in the land without right, and deemed that they would never be brought back to Us
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And he grew big with pride, he and his armies in the land, without right; and they thought that they to us should not return
John Medows Rodwell1861 And he and his hosts behaved themselves proudly and unjustly on the earth, and thought that they should never be brought back to us
George Sale1734 And both he and his forces behaved themselves insolently and unjustly in the earth; and imagined that they should not be brought before Us to be judged
Talal Itani2012 So We seized him, and his troops, and We threw them into the sea. Observe, therefore, what was the end of the oppressors.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Therefor We seized him and his hosts, and abandoned them unto the sea. Behold the nature of the consequence for evil-doers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And we overtook him and his army, and we flung them into the sea; behold, then, how was the end of the unjust
John Medows Rodwell1861 But we seized on him and his hosts and cast them into the sea: Behold, then, the end of the wrongful doers
George Sale1734 Wherefore We took him and his forces, and cast them into the sea. Behold, therefore, what was the end of the unjust
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
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.64
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.63
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.60
Talal Itani · George Sale0.59
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.58
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.57
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.51
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.51
Talal Itani · 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.