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Talal Itani· published 2012
We inspired the mother of Moses: "Nurse him; then, when you fear for him, cast him into the river, and do not fear, nor grieve; We will return him to you, and make him one of the messengers."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And We inspired the mother of Moses, saying: Suckle him and, when thou fearest for him, then cast him into the river and fear not nor grieve. Lo! We shall bring him back unto thee and shall make him (one) of Our messengers
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 we inspired the mother of Moses, 'Suckle him; and when thou art afraid for him then throw him into the river, and fear not and grieve not; verily, we are going to restore him to thee, and to make him of the apostles
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And we said by revelation to the mother of Moses, "Give him suck; and if thou fearest for him, launch him on the sea; and fear not, neither fret; for we will restore him to thee, and make him one of the apostles
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And We directed the mother of Moses by revelation, saying, give him suck: And if thou fearest for him, cast him into the river; and fear not, neither be afflicted; for We will restore him unto thee, and will appoint him one of our apostles
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
Ne e frymëzuan nënën e Musait: "Jepi gji atij e, kur të kesh frikë për të, hidhe në lumë dhe mos u frikëso, as mos u pikëllo, se Ne do ta kthejmë atë te ti dhe do ta bëjmë prej të dërguarve."
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 আমি মূসার মায়ের প্রতি এ মর্মে নির্দেশ পাঠালাম যে, ‘তুমি তাকে বুকের দুধ পান করাও। অতঃপর যখন তুমি তার ব্যাপারে (ফির‘আউন ও তার সম্প্রদায়ের পক্ষ থেকে তাকে হত্যা করার) আশঙ্কা করবে, তখন তাকে (সিন্ধুকে ভরে নীল) নদে নিক্ষেপ করবে। আর তুমি (তার ডুবে যাওয়া কিংবা ফির‘আউন কর্তৃক তাকে হত্যা করার) ভয় করবে না এবং (তার বিরহের কারণে) চিন্তা করবে না। নিশ্চয় আমি তাকে তোমার কাছে ফিরিয়ে দিবো এবং তাকে রাসূলদের অন্তর্ভুক্ত করবো।’
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Bosanski · Bosnian
I Mi nadahnusmo Musaovu majku: “Doji ga, a kad se uplašiš za njegov život, baci ga u rijeku, i ne strahuj i ne tuguj, Mi ćemo ti ga, doista, vratiti i poslanikom ga učiniti.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
I Mi nadahnusmo Mojsijevu majku: “Doji ga, a kad se uplašiš za njegov život, baci ga u rijeku, i ne strahuj i ne tuguj, Mi ćemo ti ga, doista, vratiti i poslanikom ga učiniti.”
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Min mbhayini e yumma Muusaa, wonn'de: "Muynin mo". Si a hulanoyii mo, ko yo a bugoyo mo ka maayo. Wata a hulu, wata a suno; pellet, Men ruttay mo ka maaɗa, Min mbɗoya mo gooto e Nulaaɓe ɓen".
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და ჩვენ შთავაგონეთ მუსას დედას [როცა ის დაიბადა]: «(მშვიდად) აწოვე მას [შენს შვილს] ძუძუ, ხოლო როცა შეგეშინდება მის გამო [რომ შეიძლება ფარაონის ხალხმა მოკლას], მაშინ [ჩადე ის კიდობანში და] ჩააგდე ის წყალში [ნილოსში] და არ შეგეშინდეს, და არ დამწუხრდე! უეჭველად, ჩვენ დაგიბრუნებთ მას და ვჰქმით მას ერთ-ერთ მოციქულთაგან.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und Wir gaben der Mutter Musas ein: „Stille ihn. Und wenn du um ihn fürchtest, dann setze ihn in den Fluss und fürchte dich nicht und sei nicht traurig. Wir werden ihn dir gewiss zurückbringen und ihn zu einem der Gesandten machen.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Εμπνεύσαμε τη μητέρα του Μωυσή: «Θήλασέ τον, αλλά όταν φοβάσαι γι' αυτόν (από να τον σκοτώσει ο Φαραώ), βάλ' τον (σε ένα καλάθι) στο νερό [στο ποτάμι], και μη φοβάσαι, ούτε να λυπάσαι (ότι θα είναι μακριά σου). Πράγματι, θα τον επιστρέψουμε σε σένα, και θα τον κάνουμε έναν από τους Αγγελιαφόρους.»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और हमने मूसा की माँ की ओर वह़्य की[3] कि उसे दूध पिला, फिर जब तुझे उसके बारे में भय हो, तो उसे दरिया में डाल दे और न डर और न शोक कर। निःसंदेह हम उसे तेरी ओर वापस लाने वाले हैं और उसे रसूलों में से बनाने वाले हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E abbiamo ispirato alla madre di Mūsā: «Allattalo, e se dovessi temere per lui, gettalo nel fiume e non avere paura e non rattristarti: in verità Noi te lo restituiremo e ne faremo uno tra i Messaggeri».
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
7. Ir Mes įkvėpėme Mūsos (Mozės) motiną (sakydami): „Žindyk jį [Mūsą (Mozę)], tačiau kai bijosi dėl jo, tada įmesk jį į upę ir nesibaimink, nei liūdėk. Iš tiesų, Mes grąžinsime jį tau ir padarysime jį vienu iš (Mūsų) Pasiuntinių.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Gara haadha Muusaas beeksisa goone (akkana jechuun) “isa (muusaa) (harma) hoosisi; yeroo isa irratti sodaatte, (sanduuqa keessa kaayii) galaana keessatti isa darbi. Hin sodaatin; hin gaddinis. Dhugumatti, nuti isa gara keetti deebisoodha. ergamoota irraa isa taasisoodha”.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
И Мы внушили матери Мусы: «Корми его грудью, а когда испугаешься за него, опусти его в реку [Нил], и не бойся, и не печалься. Воистину, Мы вернём его к тебе и сделаем его одним из посланников».
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
И ми смо надахнули Мојсијеву мајку: „Доји га, а кад се уплашиш за његов живот, спусти га у реку, и не страхуј и не тугуј, Ми ћемо, заиста, да ти га вратимо и једним од посланика ћемо да га учинимо.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Tulimfunulia mama yake Musa kwa kumwambia: Mnyonyeshe. Na utakapomhofia, basi mtie mtoni, na usihofu wala usihuzunike. Hakika Sisi tutamrudisha kwako na tutamfanya miongoni mwa Mitume.
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Svenska · Swedish
Till Moses mor ingav vi: ”Amma honom, men när du börjar frukta för honom [ska du lägga honom i en korg och] placera den i floden. Var inte rädd och sörj inte; vi ska återföra honom till dig och göra honom till ett av våra sändebud.”
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.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Mûsâ’nın anasına: ‘Onu emzir, onun adına bir tehlikeden korkarsan onu hemen denize bırak. Korkma ve üzülme. Şüphesiz biz onu sana döndürecek ve onu peygamberlerden kılacağız’ diye ilham ettik.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
ہم نے موسیٰ (علیہ السلام) کی ماں کو وحی کی[1] کہ اسے دودھ پلاتی ره اور جب تجھے اس کی نسبت کوئی خوف معلوم ہو تو اسے دریا میں بہا دینا اور کوئی ڈر خوف یا رنج غم نہ کرنا[2]، ہم یقیناً اسے تیری طرف لوٹانے والے ہیں[3] اور اسے اپنے پیغمبروں میں بنانے والے ہیں.
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 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
Talal Itani2012 Pharaoh's household picked him up, to be an opponent and a sorrow for them. Pharaoh, Hamaan, and their troops were sinners.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And the family of Pharaoh took him up, that he might become for them an enemy and a sorrow, Lo! Pharaoh and Haman and their hosts were ever sinning
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And Pharaoh's family picked him up that he might be for them a foe and a grief; verily, Pharaoh and Haman and their hosts were sinners
John Medows Rodwell1861 And Pharaoh's family took him up to be a foe and a sorrow to them, for sinners were Pharaoh and Haman and their hosts
George Sale1734 And when she had put the child in the ark, and had cast it into the river, the family of Pharaoh took him up; providence designing that he should become an enemy, and a sorrow unto them. Verily Pharaoh, and Haman, and their forces were sinners
Talal Itani2012 Pharaoh's wife said, "An eye's delight for me and for you. Do not kill him; perhaps he will be useful to us, or we may adopt him as a son." But they did not foresee.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And the wife of Pharaoh said: (He will be) a consolation for me and for thee. Kill him not. Peradventure he may be of use to us, or we may choose him for a son. And they perceived not
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And Pharaoh's wife said, 'He is a cheering of the eye to me, and to thee. Kill him not; it may be that he will profit us, or that we may take him for a son;' for they did not perceive
John Medows Rodwell1861 And Pharaoh's wife said, "Joy of the eye to me and thee! put him not to death: haply he will be useful to us, or we may adopt him as a son." But they knew not what they did
George Sale1734 And the wife of Pharaoh said, this child is a delight of the eye to me, and to thee: Kill him not; peradventure it may happen that he may be serviceable unto us; or we may adopt him for our son. And they perceived not the consequence of what they were doing
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.58 on a scale
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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.68
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Talal Itani · George Sale0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.63
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.56
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.55
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.53
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.45
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.42
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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.