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Talal Itani· published 2012
And We raised the Mount above them in accordance with their covenant, and We said to them, "Enter the gate humbly", and We said to them, "Do not violate the Sabbath", and We received from them a solemnpledge.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And We caused the Mount to tower above them at (the taking of) their covenant: and We bade them: Enter the gate, prostrate! and We bode them: Transgress not the Sabbath! and We took from them a firm covenant
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 held over them the mountain at their compact, and said to them, 'Enter ye the door adoring;' and we said to them, 'Transgress not on the Sabbath day,' and we took from them a rigidcompact
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And we uplifted the mountain over them when we made a covenant with them, and we said to them, "Enter the gate adoring:"and we said to them, "Transgress not on the Sabbath," and we received from them a strict covenant
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And we lifted the mountain of Sinai over them, when we exacted from them their covenant; and said unto them, enter the gate of the cityworshipping. We also said unto them, transgress not on the sabbath day. And we received from them a firm covenant, that they would observe these things
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 ngritëm mbi ta malin Tur, për shkak të besëlidhjes me ta dhe u thamë atyre: "Hyni në portë të përkulur!" dhe u thamë po ashtu: "Mos e shkelni të shtunën!", si dhe morëm nga ata një besë të fortë.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আর তাদের কাছ থেকে শক্ত অঙ্গীকার গ্রহণের জন্য ‘তূর’ পর্বতকে আমি তাদের ওপরে তুলে ধরেছিলাম এবং তাদেরকে বলেছিলাম: ‘ সাজদারত হয়ে দরজা দিয়ে প্রবেশ করো।’ আর আমি তাদেরকে আরও বলেছিলাম: ‘শনিবারে (মাছ শিকারের ব্যাপারে) সীমালংঘন করো না’ এবং আমি তাদের কাছ থেকে দৃঢ় অঙ্গীকার নিয়েছিলাম।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
I iznad njih smo brdo digli, zbog zavjeta koji su dali, i rekli smo im: "Na kapiju pognutih glava uđite!" I još smo rekli: "Subotu ne oskrnavite!" I od njih smo čvrsto obećanje uzeli.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
I iznad njih smo brdo digli, zbog zavjeta koji su dali, i rekli smo im: "Na kapiju pognutih glava uđite!" I još smo rekli: "Subotu ne oskrnavite!" I od njih smo čvrsto obećanje uzeli.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Min ɓamtir dow maɓɓe Tuur fello ngo sabu ahadi maɓɓe ndii, min mbiani ɓe :"naatiree ka damal ko on naayiiɓe", Min mbi'ani ɓe : "Wata on njawtu(keerol) e asewe on", min nanngi e maɓɓe ahadi tekkundi.
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ქართული · Georgian
და ჩვენ აღვმართეთ მათ თავზე მთა ტური (სინას მთა), როცა მათთან აღთქმა დაიდო [რომ თუ ისინი თორას არ შეასრულებდნენ, ეს მთა მათზე დაეშვებოდა]. და ჩვენ ვუთხარით მათ: «შედით ქალაქის (იერუსალიმის) კარიბჭეში საჯდაზე დამხობილნი!» (მაგრამ ისინი ქალაქში სხვაგვარად შევიდნენ — სხეულის ქვედა ნაწილებზე ხოხვით). და ასევე ვუთხარით მათ: «არ დაარღვიოთ შაბათი!» (რადგან ეს დღე მხოლოდ ალლაჰის თაყვანისცემისთვის იყო განკუთვნილი). (თუმცა მათ ეს აკრძალვა დაარღვიეს და ხრიკით შაბათს თევზის დაჭერა დაიწყეს). და ჩვენ მათგან მტკიცე აღთქმა ავიღეთ.
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Deutsch · German
Und Wir hoben den Berg über sie bei (der Entgegennahme) ihres Abkommens empor. Und Wir sagten zu ihnen: „Tretet durch das Tor ein, (und hierbei) euch niederwerfend!“. Und Wir sagten zu ihnen: „Übertretet nicht am Sabbat!“. Und Wir trafen mit ihnen ein festes Abkommen.
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Kαι υψώσαμε από πάνω τους το όρος (ως προειδοποίηση) λόγω της δέσμευσής τους (που έλαβαν από τον Αλλάχ για να την τηρούν). Και τους είπαμε: «Περάστε την πύλη (της πόλης της Ιερουσαλήμ) υποκλινόμενοι (δηλ. με ταπεινότητα προς τον Αλλάχ, αλλά δεν το έκαναν).» Και τους είπαμε (επίσης): «Μην παραβιάσετε το Σάββατο (ψαρεύοντας σ' αυτή την ημέρα, αλλά το παραβίασαν).» Και πήραμε απ' αυτούς μία δυνατή δέσμευση (αλλά την αθέτησαν).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और हमने उनसे दृढ़ वचन लेने के साथ तूर (पर्वत) को उनके ऊपर उठा लिया और हमने उनसे कहा : दरवाज़े में सजदा करते हुए प्रवेश करो। तथा हमने उनसे कहा कि शनिवार[98] के बारे में अति न करो और हमने उनसे एक दृढ़ वचन लिया।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
ed elevammo al di sopra di loro il Monte (Ţūr الطُّورَ), a testimonianza del Patto, e dicemmo loro: «Entrate dalla porta prostrati!» E dicemmo loro: «Non trasgredite nel Sabato!» E stringemmo con loro un patto saldo.
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
154. O dėl jų susitarimo, Mes iškėlėme virš jų Kalną ir (kitą sykį) Mes sakėme: „Įeikite pro vartus kniūbsčiomis (arba nusilenkę) nuolankiai.“ ir Mes liepėme jiems: „Neprasiženkite (darydami pasaulietinius darbus) Šabo metu (Šeštadienį).“ Ir Mes paėmėme iš jų tvirtą pažadą.
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Русский · Russian
И Мы вознесли над ними гору по их завету и сказали им: «Входите во врата, пав ниц», и сказали им: «Не преступайте в субботу». И Мы взяли с них суровый завет.
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Српски · Serbian
И изнад њих смо брдо дигли, због завета који су дали, и рекли смо им: „На капију погнутих глава уђите!“ И још смо рекли: „Суботу не скрнавите!“ И од њих смо чврсто обећање узели.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na tukanyanyua mlima juu yao kwa kufanya agano nao. Na tukawaambia: Ingieni mlangoni kwa kusujudu. Na tukawaambia: Msikiuke mipaka kuhusiana na Siku ya Sabato (Jumamosi). Na tukachukua kwao agano lililo madhubuti.
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Svenska · Swedish
Och vi lyfte berget över dem [när de vägrade hålla fast] vid sitt förbund och sa till dem: ”Träd in genom porten med böjda huvuden!” Och vi sa till dem: ”Bryt inte mot sabbatsbudet!” Ja, vi slöt med dem ett högtidligt förbund.
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Türkçe · Turkish
Söz verdikleri için dağı onların tepesine kaldırdık. Onlara: "Kapıdan secde ederek girin!" dedik. Onlara: "Cumartesi günü yasağını çiğnemeyin!" diyerek onlardan kesin bir söz aldık.
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اردو · Urdu
اور ان کا قول لینے کے لئے ہم نے ان کے سروں پر طور پہاڑ ﻻ کھڑا کردیا اور انہیں حکم دیا کہ سجده کرتے ہوئے دروازے میں جاؤ اور یہ بھی فرمایا کہ ہفتہ کے دن میں تجاوز نہ کرنا اور ہم نے ان سے سخت سے سخت قول وقرار لئے۔
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.
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Talal Itani2012 As for those who believe in God and His messengers, and make no distinction between any of them-He will give them their rewards. God is Forgiver and Merciful.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But those who believe in Allah and His messengers and make no distinction between any of them, unto them Allah will give their wages; and Allah was ever Forgiving, Merciful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But those who believe in God and His apostles, and who do not make a distinction between any one of them,- to these we will give their hire, for God is forgiving and merciful
John Medows Rodwell1861 And they who believe on God and his Apostles, and make no difference between them these! we will bestow on them their reward at last. God is Gracious, Merciful
George Sale1734 But they who believe in God and his apostles, and make no distinction between any of them, unto those will we surely give their reward; and God is gracious and merciful
Easy-read (simplified)yas'aluka ahlu l-kitaabi an tunazzila 'alayhim kitaaban mina s-samaa'i faqad sa'aloo moosaa akbara min dhaalika faqaaloo arinaa llaaha jahratan fa'akhadhathumu s-saa'iqatu bizulmihim thumma takhadhoo l-'ijla min ba'di maa jaa'athumu l-bayyinaatu fa'afawnaa 'an dhaalika wa'aataynaa moosaa sultaanan mubeenaa
DIN 31635yasʾaluka ʾahlu l-kitābi ʾan tunazzila ʿalayhim kitāban mina s-samāʾi faqad saʾalū mūsā ʾakbara min ḏālika faqālū ʾarinā llāha ǧahratan faʾaḫaḏathumu ṣ-ṣāʿiqatu biẓulmihim ṯumma taḫaḏū l-ʿiǧla min baʿdi mā ǧāʾathumu l-bayyinātu faʿafawnā ʿan ḏālika waʾātaynā mūsā sulṭānan mubīnan
Talal Itani2012 The People of the Scripture challenge you to bring down to them a book from the sky. They had asked Moses for something even greater. They said, "Show us God plainly." The thunderbolt struck them for their wickedness. Then they took the calf for worship, even after the clear proofs had come to them. Yet We pardoned that, and We gave Moses a clear authority.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 The people of the Scripture ask of thee that thou shouldst cause an (actual) Book to descend upon them from heaven. They asked a greater thing of Moses aforetime, for they said: Show us Allah plainly. The storm of lightning seized them for their wickedness. Then (even) after that) they chose the calf (for worship) after clear proofs (of Allah's Sovereignty) had come unto them. And We forgave them that! And We bestowed on Moses evident authority
Edward Henry Palmer1880 The people of the Book will ask thee to bring down for them a book from heaven; but they asked Moses a greater thing than that, for they said, 'Show us God openly;' but the thunderbolt caught them in their injustice. Then they took the calf, after what had come to them of manifest signs; but we pardoned that, and gave Moses obvious authority
John Medows Rodwell1861 The people of the Book will ask of thee to cause a Book to come down unto them out of Heaven. But a greater thing than this did they ask of Moses! for they said, "Shew us God plainly!" and for this their wickedness did the fire-storm lay hold on them. Then took they the calf as the object of their worship, after that our clear tokens had come to them; but we forgave them this, and conferred on Moses undoubted power
George Sale1734 They who have received the scriptures will demand of thee, that thou cause a book to descend unto them from heaven: They formerly asked of Moses a greater thing than this; for they said, shew us God visibly. Wherefore a storm of fire from heaven destroyed them, because of their iniquity. Then they took the calf for their God, after that evident proofs of the divine unity had come unto them: But we forgave them that, and gave Moses a manifest power to punish them
Talal Itani2012 But for their violation of their covenant, and their denial of God's revelations, and their killing of the prophets unjustly, and their saying, "Our minds are closed." In fact, God has sealed them for their disbelief, so they do not believe, except for a few.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Then because of their breaking of their covenant, and their disbelieving in the revelations of Allah, and their slaying of the prophets wrongfully, and their saying: Our hearts are hardened - Nay, but Allah set a seal upon them for their disbelief, so that they believe not save a few
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But for that they broke their compact, and for their misbelief in God's signs, and for their killing the prophets undeservedly, and for their saying, 'Our hearts are uncircumcised,' - nay, God hath stamped on them their misbelief, so that they cannot believe except a few
John Medows Rodwell1861 So, for that they have broken their covenant, and have rejected the signs of God, and have put the prophets to death unjustly, saying the while, "Our hearts are uncircumcised," - Nay, but God hath sealed them up for their unbelief, so that but few believe
George Sale1734 Therefore for that they have made void their covenant, and have not believed in the signs of God, and have slain the prophets unjustly, and have said, our hearts are uncircumcised; -- but God hath sealed them up, because of their unbelief; therefore they shall not believe, except a few of them
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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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
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.73
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.70
Talal Itani · George Sale0.70
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.70
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.67
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.65
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.61
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.59
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.57
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.56
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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.