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Talal Itani· published 2012
Pharaoh exalted himself in the land, and divided its people into factions. He persecuted a group of them, slaughtering their sons, while sparing their daughters. He was truly a corrupter.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Lo! Pharaoh exalted himself in the earth and made its people castes. A tribe among them he oppressed, killing their sons and sparing their women. Lo! he was of those who workcorruption
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
Verily, Pharaoh was lofty in the land and made the people thereof sects; one party of them he weakened, slaughtering their sons and letting their women live. Verily, he was of the despoilers
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Now Pharaoh lifted himself up in the earth, and divided his people into parties: one portion of them he broughtlow - He slew their male children, and let their females only live; for he was one of those who wroughtdisorders
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Now Pharaoh lifted himself up in the land of Egypt; and he caused his subjects to be divided into parties: He weakened one party of them, by slaying their male-children, and preserving their females alive; for he was an oppressor
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
Njëmend, Faraoni u tregua arrogant në tokë dhe i ndau banorët e saj në grupe, disa prej të cilëve i shtypi, duke i therur djemtë e tyre dhe duke i lënë të gjalla vajzat e tyre. Ai ishte vërtet shkatërrimtar.
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বাংলা · Bengali
নিশ্চয় ফির‘আউন (মিশরে) জমিনের বুকে স্বৈরাচারী ও অহংকারী হয়েছিলো এবং তার অধিবাসীকে নানা দলে বিভক্ত করেছিলো। তাদের একদলকে (বানূ ইসরাঈলকে) সে দুর্বল করে রেখেছিলো, যাদের পুত্রদেরকে সে হত্যা করতো আর (তাদেরকে লাঞ্ছিত করার জন্য) কন্যা সন্তানদেরকে বাঁচিয়ে রাখতো। নিশ্চয় সে ছিলো বিপর্যয় সৃষ্টিকারীদের অন্যতম।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Zaista se faraon u zemlji oholio, i od stanovnika njenih načinio poklonike raznovrsne; jednu zajednicu je tlačio, mušku im djecu klao, a žensku u životu ostavljao. Doista je jedan od remetitelja poretka bio!
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Hrvatski · Croatian
Zaista se faraon u zemlji oholio, i od stanovnika njenih načinio poklonike raznovrsne; jednu zajednicu je tlačio, mušku im djecu klao, a žensku u životu ostavljao. Doista je jedan od remetitelja poretka bio!
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Pellet, Fir'awna townitino ka leydi; o waɗi yimɓe mayri ndin pecce-pecce: homo lo'ina fedde goo e maɓɓe, o hirsa ɓiɓɓe maɓɓe worɓe ɓen o acca rewɓe maɓɓe ɓen. Pellet, ko e bonnooɓe ɓen o jiyanoo.
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ქართული · Georgian
ჭეშმარიტად, ფარაონი თავის ქვეყანაში [ეგვიპტეში] გაამპარტავანდა [გახდა დესპოტი] და თავისი ხალხი ჯგუფებად დაყო, [და ამას აკეთებდა] მათი ერთი ნაწილის დასუსტებისთვის [დამცირებისთვის]. ის კლავდა მათ ვაჟებს და ცოცხალს ტოვებდა მათ ქალებს. უეჭველად, ის არეულობის მთესველთაგანი იყო.
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Deutsch · German
Wahrlich, Fir'aun zeigte sich überheblich im Land und machte seine Bewohner zu Gruppierungen, von denen er einen Teil unterdrückte, indem er ihre Söhne abschlachtete und (nur) ihre Frauen am Leben ließ. Wahrlich, er gehörte zu den Unheilstiftern.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Πράγματι, ο Φαραώ έδειξε τυραννία και αλαζονεία στη γη και χώρισε τους κατοίκους της σε ομάδες. Καταπίεζε απ' αυτούς μία ομάδα (δηλ. τα παιδιά του Ισραήλ -Ιακώβ-), σφάζοντας τους γιους τους και αφήνοντας τις γυναίκες τους ζωντανές (για να υπηρετήσουν). Πράγματι, ήταν ένας απ' εκείνους που σκόρπιζαν το κακό.
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हिन्दी · Hindi
निःसंदेह फ़िरऔन ने धरती में सरकशी की और उसके वासियों को कई समूहों में विभाजित कर दिया। जिनमें से एक समूह को वह बहुत कमज़ोर कर रहा था, उनके बेटों का बुरी तरह से वध कर देता और उनकी महिलाओं को जीवित रहने देता था। निःसंदेह वह बिगाड़ पैदा करने वालों में से था।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
In verità il Faraone divenne superbo sulla terra, e divise gli abitanti in sette, di cui ne opprimeva una, uccidendone i figli maschi e tenendo le donne in vita: lui fu, in verità, tra i malfattori.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
4. Iš tiesų, Firaun (Faraonas) iškėlė save žemėje ir padarė jos žmones grupėmis, susilpnindamas (engdamas) vieną gupę (t. y. Israelio (Izraelio) vaikus) iš jų: žudydamas jų sūnus ir palikdamas gyvas jų moteris. Iš tiesų, jis buvo iš Al-Mufsidūn (t. y. tų, kurie daro dideles nuodėmes ir nusikaltimus, engėjų, tironų).
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Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Fir’awn Dachii keessatti uf tuulee ture. warra ishee garee garee taasise. Garee isaan irraa ta’e (ilmaan israa'iil) ni hacuuce. Ilmaan isaanii kan dhiiraa ni gorra'a; tan dubaraa immoo ni jiraachisa (nidhiisa). inni balleeysitoota irraa ture.
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Русский · Russian
Воистину, Фараон превознёсся на земле [Египта] и разделил её жителей на группы, угнетая одну из них: он убивал их сыновей и оставлял в живых их женщин. Воистину, он был из числа творивших беззаконие.
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Српски · Serbian
Заиста се фараон на Земљи охолио и становнике њене на странке је изделио; једне је тлачио, мушку им децу клао, а женску у животу остављао, заиста је смутљивац био.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Hakika Firauni alitakabari katika ardhi, na akawagawa wananchi makundi mbali mbali. Akalidhoofisha taifa moja miongoni mwao, akiwachinja watoto wao wanaume na akiwaacha hai watoto wao wanawake. Hakika yeye alikuwa katika waharibifu.
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Svenska · Swedish
Farao härskade som en tyrann över sitt land och delade in dess folk i olika grupper. En grupp förtryckte han genom att slakta deras söner medan han lät deras döttrar leva. Han var verkligen en som spred fördärv.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Firavun, yeryüzünde üstünlük/büyüklük taslayıp, oranın halkını fırkalara/gruplara ayırdı. Onlardan bir grubu zayıf ve güçsüz bırakıyor, erkek çocuklarını boğazlıyor, kadınlarını sağ bırakıyordu. Çünkü o, bozgunculardan idi.
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اردو · Urdu
یقیناً فرعون نے زمین میں سرکشی کر رکھی تھی[1] اور وہاں کے لوگوں کو گروه گروه بنا رکھا تھا[2] اور ان میں سے ایک فرقہ کو کمزور کر رکھا تھا[3] اور ان کے لڑکوں کو تو ذبح کر ڈالتا تھا[4] اور ان کی لڑکیوں کو زنده چھوڑ دیتا تھا۔ بیشک وشبہ وه تھا ہی مفسدوں میں سے.
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Talal Itani2012 But We desired to favor those who were oppressed in the land, and to make them leaders, and to make them the inheritors.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And We desired to show favour unto those who were oppressed in the earth, and to make them examples and to make them the inheritors
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And we wished to be gracious to those who were weakened in the earth, and to make them models, and to make them the heirs
John Medows Rodwell1861 And we were minded to shew favour to those who were brought low in the land, and to make them spiritual chiefs, and to make them Pharaoh's heirs
George Sale1734 And We were minded to be gracious unto those who were weakened in the land, and to make them models of religion; and to make them the heirs of the wealth of Pharaoh and his people
Talal Itani2012 And to establish them in the land; and to show Pharaoh, Hamaan, and their troops, the very thing they feared.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And to establish them in the earth, and to show Pharaoh and Haman and their hosts that which they feared from them
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and to establish for them in the earth; and to show Pharaoh and Haman and their hosts what they had to beware of from them
John Medows Rodwell1861 And to stablish them in the land; and to make Pharaoh and Haman and their hosts, the eye-witnesses of what they dreaded from them
George Sale1734 and to establish a place for them in the earth; and to shew Pharaoh, and Haman, and their forces, that destruction of their kingdom and nation by them, which they sought to avoid
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
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Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.82
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.75
Talal Itani · George Sale0.74
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.73
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.73
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.72
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.68
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.67
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.60
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.55
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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.