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One hundred and sixty-five verses arguing for one God against the practices of Mecca: animals dedicated to idols, prohibitions nobody was given, and Abraham watching a star, a moon and a sun each set and rejecting them in turn — taking its name from the cattle set aside in those dedications.

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Where the translators differDerived

The verses of this surah whose wording differs most, most differently worded first. Under each, the two renderings that share the fewest words are quoted in full under their translators' names; every rendering is on the verse's own page. This measures wording, not meaning.

6:49
Analysis details This verse's score: 0.74. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.87.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · 1930

But as for those who deny Our revelations, torment will afflict them for that they used to disobey

John Medows Rodwell · 1861

But whoso shall charge our signs with falsehood, on them shall fall a punishment for their wicked doings
6:134
Analysis details This verse's score: 0.74. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.92.

Talal Itani · 2012

What you are promised is coming, and you cannot thwart it.

John Medows Rodwell · 1861

Verily, that which is threatened you shall surely come to pass, neither shall ye weaken its might
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6:11
Analysis details This verse's score: 0.73. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.88.

Talal Itani · 2012

Say, "Travel the earth and observe the final fate of the deniers."

John Medows Rodwell · 1861

SAY: Go through the land: then see what hath been the end of those who treated them as liars
6:120
Analysis details This verse's score: 0.73. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.85.

Talal Itani · 2012

So abandon sin, outward and inward. Those who commit sins will be repaid for what they used to perpetrate.

George Sale · 1734

Leave both the outside of iniquity, and the inside thereof: For they who commit iniquity shall receive the reward of that which they shall have gained
6:69
Analysis details This verse's score: 0.70. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.88.

Talal Itani · 2012

The righteous are in no way accountable for them; it is only a reminder, that they may be careful.

Edward Henry Palmer · 1880

Those who fear are not bound to take account of them at all, but mind!- haply they may fear
More about this surahDerived
Verses
165
Words
3,050
Place
Meccan
Revelation position
55th of 114 in an ordering its source does not name
Opening letters
None
Bismillah
Carried by the surah, unnumbered
Word-by-word breakdown
58.5% of 3,050 words carry an analysis
  1. 96
  2. 68
  3. 73
  4. 74
  5. 1
  6. 111
  7. 81
  8. 87
  9. 92
  10. 89
  11. 93
  12. 94
  13. 103
  14. 100
  15. 108
  16. 102
  17. 107
  18. 109
  19. 105
  20. 113
  21. 114
  22. 112
  23. 53
  24. 80
  25. 97
  26. 91
  27. 85
  28. 95
  29. 106
  30. 101
  31. 75
  32. 104
  33. 77
  34. 50
  35. 90
  36. 86
  37. 54
  38. 38
  39. 7
  40. 72
  41. 36
  42. 25
  43. 35
  44. 19
  45. 20
  46. 56
  47. 26
  48. 27
  49. 28
  50. 17
  51. 10
  52. 11
  53. 12
  54. 15
  55. 6
  56. 37
  57. 31
  58. 34
  59. 39
  60. 40
  61. 41
  62. 42
  63. 43
  64. 44
  65. 45
  66. 46
  67. 51
  68. 88
  69. 18
  70. 16
  71. 71
  72. 14
  73. 21
  74. 23
  75. 32
  76. 52
  77. 67
  78. 69
  79. 70
  80. 78
  81. 79
  82. 82
  83. 84
  84. 30
  85. 29
  86. 83
  87. 2
  88. 8
  89. 3
  90. 33
  91. 60
  92. 4
  93. 99
  94. 57
  95. 47
  96. 13
  97. 55
  98. 76
  99. 65
  100. 98
  101. 59
  102. 24
  103. 22
  104. 63
  105. 58
  106. 49
  107. 66
  108. 64
  109. 61
  110. 62
  111. 48
  112. 5
  113. 9
  114. 110

Meccan Medinan

Counted from the text and the spine at build time, not written into the page. Opening letters are derived from the edition's orthography: an opening token of at most five letters carrying none of its vocalisation marks. The revelation position is reproduced from Revelation order as encoded by the Tanzil metadata, which does not name whose ordering it is.

Analysis detailsDerived

These figures count the words the translations share. They measure wording, not meaning, and they do not say which translation is right.

Mean score across this surah
0.58 across 165 scored verses

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
Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
Mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the lowercased word sets of the cleared translations of each verse. A verse is marked as worded differently when its score falls in the top third of the corpus — the cut set out in Analysis details.
Scored
6,236 verses
As at
13 September 2026, 10:56 UTC
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