وَلَقَدْ ءَاتَيْنَا مُوسَى ٱلْكِتَٰبَ مِنۢ بَعْدِ مَآ أَهْلَكْنَا ٱلْقُرُونَ ٱلْأُولَىٰ بَصَآئِرَ لِلنَّاسِ وَهُدًى وَرَحْمَةً لَّعَلَّهُمْ يَتَذَكَّرُونَ
Easy-read (simplified)walaqad aataynaa moosaa l-kitaaba min ba'di maa ahlaknaa l-quroona l-'oolaa basaa'ira lilnnaasi wahudan warahmatan la'allahum yatadhakkaroon
DIN 31635walaqad ʾātaynā mūsā l-kitāba min baʿdi mā ʾahlaknā l-qurūna l-ʾūlā baṣāʾira lilnnāsi wahudan waraḥmatan laʿallahum yataḏakkarūna
EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
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.
We gave Moses the Scripture after We had annihilated the previous generations; as an illumination for mankind, and guidance, and mercy, so that they may remember.
Talal Itani, ClearQuran ·ClearQuran, "God" edition, EPUB·Talal Itani / ClearQuran.com ·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International·retrieved 7 Sep 2026
Translation by Talal Itani, ClearQuran.com https://clearquran.com
And We verily gave the Scripture unto Moses after We had destroyed the generations of old: clear testimonies for mankind, and a guidance and a mercy, that haply they might reflect
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
And we gave Moses the Book, after that we had destroyed the former generations, as an insight to men and a guidance and a mercy; haply they may be mindful
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an ·1880 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work ·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
And after we had destroyed the former generations, we gave the book of the Law to Moses for man's enlightening, and a guidance and a mercy, that haply they might reflect
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an ·1861 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work ·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
And We gave the book of the law unto Moses, after We had destroyed the former generations, to enlighten the minds of men, and for a direction, and a mercy; that peradventure they might consider
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
Me të vërtetë, Ne i dhamë Musait Librin, pasi i shkatërruam brezat e mëparshëm, si provë të qartë për njerëzit dhe udhëzim e mëshirë, që të mund të marrin mësim.
আর অবশ্যই আমি পূর্ববর্তী বহু প্রজন্মকে ধ্বংস করার পর মানবজাতির জন্য আলোকবর্তিকা, হিদায়াত ও রহমতস্বরূপ মূসাকে কিতাব (তাওরাত) দিয়েছিলাম, যাতে তারা উপদেশ গ্রহণ করে।
I Mi smo Musau Knjigu dali, nakon što smo drevne narode uništili, da bude svjetlo ljudima i uputstvo i milost, da bi se prisjetili i pouku primili.
I Mi smo Mojsiju Knjigu dali, nakon što smo drevne narode uništili, da bude svjetlo ljudima i uputstvo i milost, da bi se prisjetili i pouku primili.
Gooŋɗii Min ngokkii Muusaa Deftere nden, ɓaawo nde Min kalkunoo gire arane ɗen, ko nde ndayginorde yimɓe ɓen, e peewal e yurmeende. Mbelejo'o, ɓe mbaajitorat.
და ვფიცავ, ვუბოძეთ მუსას წიგნი [თორა] იმის შემდგომ, რაც დავღუპეთ პირველი თაობები, როგორც ნათელი გზა ხალხისთვის, [ასევე] როგორც მართალი გზამკვლევი და მოწყალება, რათა მათ გაიხსენონ.
Und Wir gaben ja bereits Musa das Buch -, nachdem Wir die früheren Gemeinschaften vernichteten, - als einsichtbringende Zeichen für die Menschen und als Rechtleitung und Barmherzigkeit, auf dass sie bedenken mögen.
Πράγματι, δώσαμε στον Μωυσή το Βιβλίο (την Τορά) αφού καταστρέψαμε τα προηγούμενα (άπιστα) έθνη, ως ξεκάθαρη απόδειξη για τους ανθρώπους, και καθοδήγηση και έλεος, ίσως και να τα λάβουν υπόψη.
और निःसंदेह हमने मूसा को पुस्तक प्रदान की, इसके पश्चात् कि हमने पहली नस्लों को विनष्ट कर दिया, जो लोगों के लिए अंतर्दृष्टिपूर्ण तर्क तथा मार्गदर्शन और दया थी, ताकि वे नसीहत ग्रहण करें।
E abbiamo consegnato a Mūsā il Libro, dopo aver distrutto le stirpi precedenti, Guida illuminata e pietà per gli uomini, affinché ricordino.
43. Ir iš tiesų Mes suteikėme Mūsai (Mozei) – po to, kai Mes sunaikinome senąsias kartas – Raštą [Tauratą (Torą)] kaip švietimą žmonijai, ir teisingą vedimą ir gailestingumą, kad jie atsimintų (arba gautų perspėjimą).
Dhugumatti Muusaaf kitaaba kenninee jirra Erga dhaloota duraanii balleessinee booda, beekumsa, qajeelumaafi rahmata namaaf ta’ee akka isaan ittiin gorfamanuuf.
Действительно, Мы даровали Мусе Писание после того, как погубили первые поколения, в качестве наглядных знамений для людей, руководства и милости, — быть может, они внемлют напоминанию.
И Ми смо Мојсију дали Књигу, након што смо уништили древне народе, да буде светло људима, и упута, и милост, да би се присетили и примили поуку.
Na hakika bila ya shaka tulimpa Musa Kitabu baada ya kwisha kuziangamiza kaumu za mwanzo, ili kiwafumbue macho watu, na kiwe uongofu, na rehema, ili wapate kukumbuka.
Efter att vi förgjort tidigare generationer gav vi Mose skriften som ögonöppnande bevis, vägledning och nåd för människorna, så att de skulle ta lärdom.
Şüphesiz önceki nesilleri helâk ettikten sonra, belki hatırlayıp öğüt alırlar diye Mûsâ'ya, insanlar için basiretler, hidayet ve rahmet olmak üzere kitap verdik.
اور ان اگلے زمانہ والوں کو ہلاک کرنے کے بعد ہم نے موسیٰ (علیہ السلام) کو ایسی کتاب عنایت فرمائی[1] جو لوگوں کے لیے دلیل اور ہدایت ورحمت ہوکر آئی تھی[2] تاکہ وه نصیحت حاصل کرلیں.[3]
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.
Which translations appear here is set by copyright: they are the ones whose rights could be documented and cleared. The selection is not a judgement that these are the best.
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 Uthmani edition; both are cleared, but they are not the same edition and their orthography differs.
shown so it's never read alone
وَجَعَلْنَٰهُمْ أَئِمَّةً يَدْعُونَ إِلَى ٱلنَّارِ وَيَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ لَا يُنصَرُونَ
Easy-read (simplified)waja'alnaahum a'immatan yad'oona ilaa n-naari wayawma l-qiyaamati laa yunsaroon
DIN 31635waǧaʿalnāhum ʾaʾimmatan yadʿūna ʾilā n-nāri wayawma l-qiyāmati lā yunṣarūna
And We made them leaders calling to the Fire. And on Resurrection Day, they will not be saved.
And We made them patterns that invite unto the Fire, and on the Day of Resurrection they will not be helped
But we made them models calling to the fire; and on the resurrection day they shall not be helped
And we made them imams who invite to the fire of hell, and on the day of Resurrection they shall not be helped
And We made them deceitful guides, inviting their followers to hell fire; and on the day of resurrection they shall not be screened from punishment
وَأَتْبَعْنَٰهُمْ فِى هَٰذِهِ ٱلدُّنْيَا لَعْنَةً وَيَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ هُم مِّنَ ٱلْمَقْبُوحِينَ
Easy-read (simplified)wa'atba'naahum fee haadhihi d-dunyaa la'natan wayawma l-qiyaamati hum mina l-maqbooheen
DIN 31635waʾatbaʿnāhum fī hāḏihi d-dunyā laʿnatan wayawma l-qiyāmati hum mina l-maqbūḥīna
And We pursued them in this world with a curse. And on Resurrection Day, they will be among the despised.
And We made a curse to follow them in this world, and on the Day of Resurrection they will be among the hateful
and we followed them up in this world with a curse; and on the resurrection day they shall be abhorred
We followed them with a curse in this world, and covered shall they be with shame on the day of Resurrection
We pursued them with a curse in this life; and on the day of resurrection they shall be shamefully rejected
28:43 — the verse above
وَمَا كُنتَ بِجَانِبِ ٱلْغَرْبِىِّ إِذْ قَضَيْنَآ إِلَىٰ مُوسَى ٱلْأَمْرَ وَمَا كُنتَ مِنَ ٱلشَّٰهِدِينَ
Easy-read (simplified)wamaa kunta bijaanibi l-gharbiyyi idh qadaynaa ilaa moosaa l-'amra wamaa kunta mina sh-shaahideen
DIN 31635wamā kunta biǧānibi l-ġarbiyyi ʾiḏ qaḍaynā ʾilā mūsā l-ʾamra wamā kunta mina š-šāhidīna
The translators word this verse differently
You were not on the Western Side when We decreed the command to Moses, nor were you among the witnesses.
And thou (Muhammad) wast not on the western side (of the Mount) when We expounded unto Moses the commandment, and thou wast not among those present
Thou wast not upon the western side when we decided for Moses, but afar off; nor wast thou of the witnesses
And thou wast not on the western slope of Sinai when we laid his charge on Moses, nor wast thou one of the witnesses
Thou, O prophet, wast not on the west side of mount Sinai, when We delivered Moses his commission: Neither wast thou one of those who were present at his receiving it
وَلَٰكِنَّآ أَنشَأْنَا قُرُونًا فَتَطَاوَلَ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلْعُمُرُ وَمَا كُنتَ ثَاوِيًا فِىٓ أَهْلِ مَدْيَنَ تَتْلُوا۟ عَلَيْهِمْ ءَايَٰتِنَا وَلَٰكِنَّا كُنَّا مُرْسِلِينَ
Easy-read (simplified)walaakinnaa ansha'naa quroonan fatataawala 'alayhimu l-'umuru wamaa kunta thaawiyan fee ahli madyana tatloo 'alayhim aayaatinaa walaakinnaa kunnaa mursileen
DIN 31635walākinnā ʾanšaʾnā qurūnan fataṭāwala ʿalayhimu l-ʿumuru wamā kunta ṯāwiyan fī ʾahli madyana tatlū ʿalayhim ʾāyātinā walākinnā kunnā mursilīna
The translators word this verse differently
But We established many generations, and time took its toll on them. Nor were you among the people of Median, reciting Our revelations to them. But We kept sending messengers.
But We brought forth generations, and their lives dragged on for them. And thou wast not a dweller in Midian, reciting unto them Our revelations, but We kept sending (messengers to men)
But we raised up (other) generations, and life was prolonged for them; and thou wast not staying amidst the people of Midian, reciting to them our signs; but we were sending our apostles
But we raised up generations after Moses, men whose days were lengthened; neither didst thou dwell among the inhabitants of Madian to rehearse to them our signs, but we sent Apostles to them
But we raised up several generations after Moses; and life was prolonged unto them. Neither didst thou dwell among the inhabitants of Madian, rehearsing unto them our signs; but We have sent thee fully instructed in every particular
EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) ·Uthmani, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
وَلَقَدْ آتَيْنَا مُوسَى الْكِتَابَ مِن بَعْدِ مَا أَهْلَكْنَا الْقُرُونَ الْأُولَىٰ بَصَائِرَ لِلنَّاسِ وَهُدًى وَرَحْمَةً لَّعَلَّهُمْ يَتَذَكَّرُونَ
EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Simple) ·Simple, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
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 — 0.53 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.
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair sharing fewest words. Every pair is shown; none is singled out.
The platform does not say which is right, and does not characterise what the difference means. The renderings are placed together so the difference is visible; reading it is the reader's work.
SourceTanzil Qur'an text (Simple) ·Simple, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
SourceTanzil Qur'an text (Simple) ·Simple, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
7 sources stand behind this page. Each is listed once, in the order the page first cites it, with the licence it was cleared under and what was actually read. Nothing on this page rests on a source that is not here.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CLEARED. Parallel edition, held in ayah_text_variants. It sits alongside the Uthmani spine for search normalisation and is never used to correct it.
Qur'anic text from the Tanzil Project. Copyright (C) 2007-2026 Tanzil Project License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Source: tanzil.net · Updates: tanzil.net/updates/ https://tanzil.net/updates/