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.
Talal Itani· published 2012
In Sheba'shomeland there used to be a wonder: two gardens, on the right, and on the left. "Eat of your Lord's provision, and give thanks to Him." A good land, and a forgiving Lord.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
There was indeed a sign for Sheba in their dwelling-place: Two gardens on the right hand and the left (as who should say): Eat of the provision of your Lord and render thanks to Him. A fair land and an indulgent Lord
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
Seba had in their dwellings a sign; two gardens, on the right hand and on the left, 'Eat from the provision of your Lord; and give thanks to Him! a good country and a forgiving Lord
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
A sign there was to SABA, in their dwelling places: - two gardens, the one on the right hand and the other on the left: - "Eat ye of your Lord's supplies, and give thanks to him: Goodly is the country, and gracious is the Lord
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
The descendants of Saba had heretofore a sign in their dwellings; namely, two gardens, on the right hand and on the left: And it was said unto them, eat ye of the provision of your Lord, and give thanks unto Him; ye have a good country, and a gracious Lord
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
Në vendbanimin e Sebës kishte një shenjë të qartë për banorët e tij: dy kopshte, një në të djathtë e një në të majtë. (Ne u thamë atyre:) "Hani nga furnizimi i Zotit tuaj dhe falënderojeni Atë. Vendi juaj është i mirë dhe Zoti juaj Falës i Madh."
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
নিশ্চয় সাবা সম্প্রদায়ের জন্য তাদের বাসভূমিতে ছিল এক নিদর্শন: দু’টি উদ্যান, একটি ডানে ও অপরটি বামে, (তাদেরকে বলা হয়েছিলঃ) ‘তোমরা তোমাদের রবের রিযক থেকে খাও। আর তাঁর নি‘আমতের শুকরিয়া আদায় করো। এটি হচ্ছে উত্তম নগরী। আর (তোমাদের রব) ক্ষমাশীল রব।’
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
Stanovnici Sabe imali su dokaz u mjestu u kome su živjeli: vrtove zdesna i slijeva. Jedite hranu Gospodara svog i budite Mu zahvalni; kakav divan kraj i Gospodar Koji mnogo prašta!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Stanovnici Sabe imali su dokaz u mjestu u kome su živjeli: vrtove zdesna i slijeva. Jedite hranu Gospodara svog i budite Mu zahvalni; kakav divan kraj i Gospodar Koji mnogo prašta!
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
Gooŋɗii wonaniino yimɓe Saba'i ɓen e koɗooli maɓɓe ɗin, Ma'ande; gese ɗiɗi ka bannge ñaamo e ka nano. (Min wmbiani ɓe): "Ñaamee e arsike Joomi mon, njetton mo Mo. Leydi ndin ko laaɓundi, e Joomiraawo jafotooɗo".
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
ქართული · Georgian
საბას (ტომისთვის) მათ დასახლებაში (იემენში) იყო ნიშანი (რომელიც ალლაჰის ძლიერებაზე მიუთითებდა): ორი ბაღი — (ერთი) მარჯვნივ და (მეორე) მარცხნივ: «იკვებეთ თქვენი უფლის მიერ ბოძებული საზრდოთი და მადლობა შესწირეთ მას! (რადგან ადგილი, სადაც ცხოვრობთ,) კეთილი ქვეყანაა [კარგი ჰავითა და ნაყოფიერი მიწით], ხოლო შემნდობი უფალია».
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Die (Leute von) Saba hatten ja in ihrer Wohnstätte ein Zeichen: zwei Gärten zur Rechten und zur Linken. - „Esst von der Versorgung eures Herrn und dankt Ihm. (Es ist) eine gute Ortschaft und ein allvergebender Herr.“
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
Υπήρχε ένα Σημάδι (των ευνοιών του Αλλάχ και της Δύναμής Του) για (τους ανθρώπους από) το Σάμπα’ [το βασίλειο του Σαβά] στον τόπο κατοικίας τους: (το οποίο ήταν) δύο κήποι, ένας στα δεξιά και ένας στα αριστερά. (Και είπαμε): «Φάτε από τα αγαθά του Κυρίου σας και να είστε ευγνώμονες προς Αυτόν. Μία καλή γη, και ένας Κύριος που είναι Γαφούρ (Αυτός που συγχωρεί τα πάντα, για όσους στρέφονται με μεταμέλεια προς Αυτόν).»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
सबा[13] जाति के लिए उनके निवास-स्थान में एक निशानी[14] थी। (उसके) दाएँ और बाएँ दो बाग़ थे। (हमने कहा था :) अपने पालनहार की दी हुई रोज़ी से खाओ और उसके प्रति आभार प्रकट करो। (यह) एक अच्छा शहर है तथा अति क्षमाशील पालनहार है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Ci fu nella dimora dei Sabei un segno: due giardini, uno a destra e l’altro a sinistra: «Mangiate i beni del vostro Dio e siateGli grati: una terra produttiva e un Dio Perdonatore!»
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
15. Iš tiesų, tai buvo (skirta) Saba ženklas jų buveinėje – du sodai dešinėje rankoje ir kairėje. (Ir jiems buvo pasakyta:) „Valgykite iš savo Viešpaties aprūpinimo, ir būkite Jam dėkingi.“ Sąžininga žemė ir Atleidžiantis Viešpats.
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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Русский · Russian
Действительно, у народа Саба в их обиталищах было знамение: два сада — справа и слева. «Ешьте из удела вашего Господа и благодарите Его, благословенная страна и прощающий Господь».
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
Становници Сабе имали су знак у месту у ком су живели: вртове, здесна и слева. Једите из опскрбе свога Господара и будите Му захвални; ово је леп предео, а Господар је Опростилац греха!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Hakika ilikuwepo Ishara kwa (watu wa nchi ya) Sabaa katika maskani yao - bustani mbili, kulia na kushoto. Kuleni katika riziki ya Mwenyezi Mungu, na mumshukuru. Mji mzuri na Mola Mlezi aliye Msamehevu.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
För [folket i] Saba fanns sannerligen ett tecken i deras boplats: två trädgårdar, en till höger och en till vänster. [Vi sa till dem:] ”Ät av det er Herre försörjer er med och visa honom tacksamhet – ett land så fridfullt och en Herre så oerhört förlåtande!”
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
Andolsun, Sebe kavmi için oturduğu yerlerde büyük bir ibret vardır. Biri sağda, diğeri solda iki bahçeleri vardı. (Onlara:) "Rabbinizin rızkından yiyin ve O'na şükredin. İşte güzel bir memleket ve çok bağışlayan bir Rab!"
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
قوم سبا کے لئے اپنی بستیوں میں (قدرت الٰہی کی) نشانی تھی[1] ان کے دائیں بائیں دو باغ تھے[2] (ہم نے ان کو حکم دیا تھا کہ) اپنے رب کی دی ہوئی روزی کھاؤ[3] اور اس کا شکر ادا کرو[4]، یہ عمده شہر[5] اور وه بخشنے واﻻ رب ہے.[6]
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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same edition and their orthography differs.
Easy-read (simplified)ya'maloona lahu maa yashaa'u min mahaareeba watamaatheela wajifaanin kal-jawaabi waqudoorin raasiyaatin 'maloo aala daawooda shukran waqaleelun min 'ibaadiya sh-shakoor
DIN 31635yaʿmalūna lahu mā yašāʾu min maḥārība watamāṯīla waǧifānin kal-ǧawābi waqudūrin rāsiyātin ʿmalū ʾāla dāwūda šukran waqalīlun min ʿibādiya š-šakūru
Talal Itani2012 They made for him whatever he wished: sanctuaries, statues, bowls like pools, and heavy cauldrons. "O House of David, work with appreciation," but a few of My servants are appreciative.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 They made for him what he willed: synagogues and statues, basins like wells and boilers built into the ground. Give thanks, O House of David! Few of My bondmen are thankful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and they made for him what he pleased of chambers, and images, and dishes like troughs, and firm pots;- work, O ye family of David! thankfully; few is it of my servants who are thankful
John Medows Rodwell1861 They made for him whatever he pleased, of lofty halls, and images, and dishes large as tanks for watering camels, and cooking pots that stood firmly. "Work," said we, "O family of David with thanksgiving:" But few of my servants are the thankful
George Sale1734 They made for him whatever he pleased, of palaces, and statues, and large dishes like fishponds, and cauldrons standing firm on their trevets; and We said, work righteousness, O family of David, with thanksgiving; for few of my servants are thankful
Talal Itani2012 Then, when We decreed death for him, nothing indicated his death to them except an earthworm eating at his staff. Then, when he fell down, it became clear to the sprites that, had they known the unseen, they would not have remained in the demeaning torment.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And when We decreed death for him, nothing showed his death to them save a creeping creature of the earth which gnawed away his staff. And when he fell the jinn saw clearly how, if they had known the Unseen, they would not have continued in despised toil
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when we decreed for him death, naught guided them to his death save a reptile of the earth that ate his staff; and when he fell down it was made manifest to the ginns that, had they but known the unseen, they need not have tarried in the shameful torment
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when we decreed the death of Solomon, nothing shewed them that he was dead but a reptile of the earth that gnawed the staff which supported his corpse. And when it fell, the Djinn perceived that if they had known the things unseen, they had not continued in this shameful affliction
George Sale1734 And when We had decreed that Solomon should die, nothing discovered his death unto them, except the creeping thing of the earth, which gnawed his staff. And when his body fell down, the genii plainly perceived that if they had known that which is secret, they had not continued in a vile punishment
DIN 31635faʾaʿraḍū faʾarsalnā ʿalayhim sayla l-ʿarimi wabaddalnāhum biǧannatayhim ǧannatayni ḏawātay ʾukulin ḫamṭin waʾaṯlin wašayʾin min sidrin qalīlin
Talal Itani2012 But they turned away, so We unleashed against them the flood of the dam; and We substituted their two gardens with two gardens of bitter fruits, thorny shrubs, and meager harvest.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But they were froward, so We sent on them the flood of 'Iram, and in exchange for their two gardens gave them two gardens bearing bitter fruit, the tamarisk and here and there a lote-tree
Edward Henry Palmer1880 but they turned away, and we sent against them the flood of the dyke; and we changed for them their two gardens into two gardens that grew bitter fruit and tamarisk, and some few lote trees
John Medows Rodwell1861 But they turned aside: so we sent upon them the flood of Irem; and we changed them their gardens into two gardens of bitter fruit and tamarisk and some few jujube trees
George Sale1734 But they turned aside from what We had commanded them; wherefore We sent against them the inundation of al Arem, and We changed their two gardens for them into two gardens producing bitter fruit, and tamarisks, and some little fruit of the lote-tree
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 —
0.54 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 · George Sale0.62
Talal Itani · George Sale0.61
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.58
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.58
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.56
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.54
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.52
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.49
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.48
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.44
One bar per pair of renderings, longest bar for the pair
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
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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.