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.
"And verifying what lies before me of the Torah, and to make lawful for you some of what was forbidden to you. I have come to you with a sign from your Lord; so fear God, and obey me."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And (I come) confirming that which was before me of the Torah, and to make lawful some of that which was forbidden unto you. I come unto you with a sign from your Lord, so keep your duty to Allah and obey me
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 I will confirm what is before you of the law, and will surely make lawful for you some of that which was prohibited from you. I have come to you with a sign from your Lord, so fear God and follow me
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And I have come to attest the law which was before me; and to allow you part of that which had been forbidden you; and I come to you with a sign from your Lord: Fear God, then, and obey me
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And I come to confirm the law which was revealed before me, and to allow unto you as lawful, part of that which hath been forbidden you: And I come unto you with a sign from your Lord; therefore fear God, and obey me
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
(Kam ardhur te ju) për të vërtetuar Teuratin që është para meje dhe për t'ju lejuar disa gjëra që i kishit të ndaluara. Ju kam sjellë dëshmi nga Zoti juaj, kështu që kini frikë Allahun dhe bindmuni mua!
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 আমার পূর্বে নাযিলকৃত তাওরাতে যা আছে, আমি তার সত্যায়নকারী হিসেবে এসেছি, তাছাড়া (পূর্বে) তোমাদের ওপর যা হারাম করা হয়েছিল তার কিছু তোমাদের জন্য হালাল করতে এবং আমি তোমাদের রবের পক্ষ থেকে নিদর্শন (সুষ্পষ্ট দলিল প্রমাণ) নিয়ে তোমাদের নিকট এসেছি। অতএব, তোমরা আল্লাহর তাকওয়া অবলম্বন করো এবং আমার আনুগত্য করো।
Translated by the team of Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Dawah Association in Rabwah, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
Potvrđujući tako istinitost Tevrata, objavljenog prije mene, i dopuštajući nešto što vam je bilo zabranjeno, ja vam donosim dokaz od Gospodara vašega. Pa Allaha se bojte, a meni pokorni budite!
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 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Potvrđujući tako istinitost Tore, objavljene prije mene, i dopuštajući nešto što vam je bilo zabranjeno, ja vam donosim dokaz od Gospodara vašega. Pa Allaha se bojte, a meni pokorni budite!
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
Fulfulde · Fulani
e goonginɗo ko woni yeeso am immorde e Tawreeta, e no mi daknanana on yoga e ko harmannoo on, mi addanii on maande immorde ka Joom mon. kulee Alla ɗoftoɗon kam.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და როგორც დამამტკიცებელი იმისა, რაც ჩემამდე ჩამოეგზავნა თორაში, და რათა ნებადართული გაგიხადოთ (ალლაჰის შთაგონებით) ნაწილი იმისა, რაც ადრე თქვენთვის აკრძალული იყო. და მოვედი თქვენთან ნიშნით თქვენი უფლისგან. მაშ, გეშინოდეთ (სასჯელის) ალლაჰისას და დამემორჩილეთ.
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 (ich komme) das bestätigend, was von der Thora vor mir (offenbart) war, und um euch einiges von dem zu erlauben, was euch verboten war. Und ich bin zu euch gekommen mit einem Zeichen von eurem Herrn; so fürchtet Allah und gehorcht mir!“
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
Και (ήλθα σ’ εσάς) επιβεβαιώνοντας ό,τι αποκαλύφθηκε πριν από μένα από την Τορά (την πρωτότυπη Τορά που δόθηκε στον Μωυσή), και για να κάνω επιτρεπτό για σας μέρος εκείνου που σας ήταν απαγορευμένο, κι ήλθα σ’ εσάς με σημάδια από τον Κύριό σας. Έτσι, να φυλαχθείτε από την τιμωρία του Αλλάχ (εκτελώντας τις εντολές Του) και να με υπακούτε.
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
हिन्दी · Hindi
तथा अपने से पहले की किताब तौरात की पुष्टि करने वाला हूँ और ताकि मैं तुम्हारे लिए कुछ वे चीज़ें हलाल कर दूँ, जो तुम पर हराम कर दी गई थीं तथा मैं तुम्हारे पास तुम्हारे पालनहार की ओर से बड़ी निशानी लेकर आया हूँ। अतः तुम अल्लाह से डरो और मेरा कहना मानो।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E vengo a conferma di ciò che ho conosciuto nella Torāh e per permettervi una parte di ciò che vi fu vietato, e vengo a voi con un Segno da parte del vostro Dio: temete Allāh e obbeditemi!
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
50. Ir aš atėjau tvirtindamas tai, kas buvo iki manęs – Tauratą (Torą) – ir kad leisčiau jums dalį to, kas jums buvo draudžiama. Ir atėjau pas jus su įrodymais iš jūsų Viešpaties. Taigi bijokite Allaho ir pakluskite man.
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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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
И [я пришёл] подтверждающим истинность того, что было до меня из Таурата, и чтобы дозволить вам часть того, что вам было сделано запретным. И я пришёл к вам со знамением от вашего Господа, так бойтесь же Аллаха и повинуйтесь мне.
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
Потврђујући тако истинитост Торе, објављене пре мене, и допуштајући нешто што вам је било забрањено, ја вам доносим доказ од вашега Господара. Па, бојте се Аллаха, а мени будите покорни!
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 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na ninasadikisha yaliyokuwa kabla yangu katika Taurati, na ili niwahalalishie baadhi ya yale mliyoharamishiwa. Na nimewajia na Ishara kutoka kwa Mola Mlezi wenu. Kwa hivyo, mcheni Mwenyezi Mungu na nitiini mimi.
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Svenska · Swedish
Och [jag har kommit] för att bekräfta det som kom innan mig av Tawrāt och för att göra tillåtet för er en del av det som var förbjudet för er. Och jag har kommit till er med ett tecken från er Herre. Så frukta Gud och lyd mig.”
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
Türkçe · Turkish
Benden önce gelen Tevrat’ı tasdik etmekle beraber size haram edilen şeylerin bir kısmını helal kılmak üzere, Rabbinizden size bir ayet getirdim. Allah’tan korkun ve bana itaat edin!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
اور میں توراة کی تصدیق کرنے واﻻ ہوں جو میرے سامنے ہے اور میں اس لئے آیا ہوں کہ تم پر بعض وه چیزیں حلال کروں جو تم پر حرام کر دی گئی ہیں[1] اور میں تمہارے پاس تمہارے رب کی نشانی ﻻیا ہوں، اس لئے تم اللہ تعالیٰ سے ڈرو اور میری فرمانبرداری کرو!
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 A messenger to the Children of Israel: "I have come to you with a sign from your Lord. I make for you out of clay the figure of a bird; then I breathe into it, and it becomes a bird by God's leave. And I heal the blind and the leprous, and I revive the dead, by God's leave. And I inform you concerning what you eat, and what you store in your homes. In that is a sign for you, if you are believers."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And will make him a messenger unto the Children of Israel, (saying): Lo! I come unto you with a sign from your Lord. Lo! I fashion for you out of clay the likeness of a bird, and I breathe into it and it is a bird, by Allah's leave. I heal him who was born blind, and the leper, and I raise the dead, by Allah's leave. And I announce unto you what ye eat and what ye store up in your houses. Lo! herein verily is a portent for you, if ye are to be believers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and he shall be a prophet to the people of Israel (saying), that I have come to you, with a sign from God, namely, that I will create for you out of clay as though it were the form of a bird, and I will blow thereon and it shall become a bird by God's permission; and I will heal the blind from birth, and lepers; and I will bring the dead to life by God's permission; and I will tell you what you eat and what ye store up in your houses. Verily, in that is a sign for you if ye be believers
John Medows Rodwell1861 and he shall be an apostle to the children of Israel. "Now have I come," he will say, "to you with a sign from your Lord: Out of clay will I make for you, as it were, the figure of a bird: and I will breathe into it, and it shall become, by God's leave, a bird. And I will heal the blind, and the leper; and by God's leave will I quicken the dead; and I will tell you what ye eat, and what ye store up in your houses! Truly in this will be a sign for you, if ye are believers
George Sale1734 and shall appoint him his apostle to the children of Israel; and he shall say, verily I come unto you with a sign from your Lord; for I will make before you, of clay, as it were the figure of a bird; then I will breathe thereon, and it shall become a bird, by the permission of God: And I will heal him that hath been blind from his birth; and the leper: And I will raise the dead by the permission of God: And I will prophesy unto you what ye eat, and what ye lay up for store in your houses. Verily herein will be a sign unto you, if ye believe
Talal Itani2012 When Jesus sensed disbelief on their part, he said, "Who are my allies towards God?" The disciples said, "We are God's allies; we have believed in God, and bear witness that we submit."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But when Jesus became conscious of their disbelief, he cried: Who will be my helpers in the cause of Allah? The disciples said: We will be Allah's helpers. We believe in Allah, and bear thou witness that we have surrendered (unto Him)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when Jesus perceived their unbelief, He said, 'Who are my helpers for God?' Said the apostles, 'We are God's helpers. We believe in God, so bear witness that we are resigned
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when Jesus perceived unbelief on their part, He said, "Who my helpers with God?" The apostles said, "We will be God's helpers! We believe in God, and bear thou witness that we are Muslims
George Sale1734 But when Jesus perceived their unbelief, he said, who will be my helpers towards God? The apostles answered, we will be the helpers of God; we believe in God, and do thou bear witness that we are true believers
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.44 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
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.50
Talal Itani · George Sale0.50
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.48
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.48
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.48
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.46
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.46
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.38
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.36
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.30
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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.