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Talal Itani· published 2012
They said, "We were persecuted before you came to us, and after you came to us." He said, "Perhaps your Lord will destroy your enemy, and make you successors in the land; then He will see how you behave."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
They said: We suffered hurt before thou camest unto us, and since thou hast come unto us. He said: It may be that your Lord is going to destroy your adversary and make you viceroys in the earth, that He may see how ye behave
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
They said, 'We have been hurt before thou didst come to us, and since thou hast come to us.' Said he, 'It may be that your Lord will destroy your foe, and will make you succeed him in the earth; and He will see how ye act
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
We have been oppressed," they said, "before thou camest to us, and since thou hast been with us:" "Perhaps," said he, "your Lord will destroy your enemy, and will make you his successors in the land, and He will see how ye will act therein
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
They replied, 'We were persecuted before thou camest to us and even after thou camest to us.' He said, 'Your Lord is about to destroy your enemy and make you rulers in the land, that He may see how you act
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
Ata thanë: "Ne torturoheshim para se të vije te ne, por edhe pasi erdhe ti." Ai tha: "Ndoshta Zoti juaj do të shkatërrojë armikun tuaj dhe do t'ju bëjë sundues në Tokë për të parë se si do të veproni."
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
তারা বললো: ‘ তুমি আমাদের কাছে আসার আগেও আমাদেরকে কষ্ট দেয়া হয়েছে এবং তুমি আমাদের কাছে আসার পরেও।’(২৪) সে বললো: ‘আশা করা যায়, তোমাদের রব তোমাদের শত্রুকে ধ্বংস করবেন এবং জমিনে তোমাদেরকে স্থলাভিষিক্ত করবেন। অতঃপর তিনি দেখবেন, তোমরা কেমন কাজ করো।’(২৫)
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
"Zlostavljani smo", rekoše oni, "prije nego što si nam došao, a i nakon što si došao!" A Musa reče: "Možda će Gospodar vaš neprijatelja vašeg uništiti, a vas nasljednicima na Zemlji učiniti, da bi vidio kako ćete postupiti."
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
"Zlostavljani smo", rekoše oni, "prije nego što si nam došao, a i nakon što si došao!" A Mojsije reče: "Možda će Gospodar vaš neprijatelja vašeg uništiti, a vas nasljednicima na Zemlji učiniti, da bi vidio kako ćete postupiti."
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Ɓe mbi'i : "min lorranooma adii a arde amen e ɓaawo nde ngarɗaa e amen". O maaki : "Hino jortaa nde Joomi mon halkata gaño mon O lomtina on ka leydi, O ndaara ko holno ngollirton".
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
თქვეს (ადამიანებმა მუსას ხალხისაგან): «ჩვენ გვაყენებდნენ ტანჯვას (ჩვენი ვაჟების დახოცვით) ჯერ კიდევ მანამდე, ვიდრე შენ (ო, მუსა) მოხვიდოდი ჩვენთან, და (ჩვენ ვაგრძელებთ ტანჯვას) მას შემდეგაც, რაც შენ მოხვედი». (მუსამ) უთხრა მათ: «შესაძლოა, თქვენი უფალი გაანადგურებს თქვენს მტერს და გაგხდით თქვენ მის მემკვიდრეებად მიწაზე, და შეხედავს, როგორ მოიქცევით თქვენ [იქნებით მადლიერნი თუ არა]!»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Sie sagten: „Uns ist Leid zugefügt worden, bevor du zu uns kamst und (auch) nachdem du zu uns gekommen bist.“ Er sagte: „Vielleicht wird euer Herr euren Feind vernichten und euch zu Nachfolgern auf der Erde machen und dann schauen, wie ihr handelt.“
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
Είπαν (οι άνθρωποι από τα παιδιά του Ισραήλ): «Ήδη υποφέραμε κακό (από τον Φαραώ) πριν έρθεις σε μας και τώρα αφού ήρθες σε μας.» Είπε: «Είθε ο Κύριός σας να καταστρέψει τον εχθρό σας και να σας δώσει δύναμη στη γη (δηλ. κάνοντας κάποιους από σας βασιλιάδες αφού ήσασταν δούλοι, -κάτι που έγινε αργότερα όταν μπήκαν στην Ιερουσαλήμ και έκαναν το βασίλειό τους-), και έτσι να δει πως θα πράξετε (δηλ. αν θα είστε ευγνώμονες ή θα γίνετε αλαζόνες).»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
उन्होंने कहा : हम तुम्हारे आने से पहले भी सताए गए और तुम्हारे आने के बाद भी (सताए जा रहे हैं)! (मूसा ने) कहा : निकट है कि तुम्हारा पालनहार तुम्हारे शत्रु को विनष्ट कर दे और तुम्हें देश में ख़लीफ़ा बना दे। फिर देखे कि तुम कैसे कर्म करते हो?
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Dissero: «Ci è stato fatto del male prima che tu venissi e dopo la tua venuta!» Disse: «Forse il vostro Dio distruggerà il vostro nemico e vi farà vicari in terra per vedere cosa vi farete”.
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
129. Jie tarė: „Mes (Israelio (Izraelio) vaikai) kentėjome sunkumus iki tol, kol tu atėjai pas mus, ir nuo tada, kai tu atėjai pas mus.“ Jis tarė: „Gali būti, kad jūsų Viešpats sunaikins jūsų priešus ir padarys jus įpėdiniais žemėje, tam, kad Jis pamatytų, kaip jūs elgsitės.“
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
Они сказали: «Мы подвергались притеснениям и до твоего прихода к нам, и после того, как ты пришёл». Он сказал: «Быть может, ваш Господь погубит вашего врага и сделает вас преемниками на земле, чтобы посмотреть, как вы будете поступать»».
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
„Злостављани смо.“ Рекоше они, „пре него што си нам дошао, а и након што си дошао!“ А Мојсије рече: „Можда ће ваш Господар да уништи вашег непријатеља, а вас наследницима на Земљи да учини, да би видео како ћете да поступите.“
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
Wakasema: Tumeudhiwa kabla wewe kutujia, na baada ya wewe kutujia! Musa akasema: Huenda Mola wenu Mlezi akamuangamiza adui wenu, na akawafanya nyinyi ndio wa kufuatia kushika ardhi, ili atazame mtakavyokujatenda nyinyi.
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Svenska · Swedish
De svarade: ”Vi plågades innan du kom till oss och även efter att du kommit!” Han sa: ”Er Herre ska kanske förgöra er fiende och göra er till efterträdare i landet, för att se hur ni handlar.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Onlar: “Sen bize gelmezden evvel de geldikten sonra da işkenceye uğratıldık.” dediler. Dedi ki: “Rabbinizin düşmanlarınızı yok etmesi, yeryüzünde sizi onların yerine geçirmesi ve böylece nasıl amel edeceğinize bakması umulur” dedi.
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اردو · Urdu
قوم کے لوگ کہنے لگے کہ ہم تو ہمیشہ مصیبت ہی میں رہے، آپ کی تشریف آوری سے قبل بھی[1] اور آپ کی تشریف آوری کے بعد بھی[2]۔ موسیٰ (علیہ السلام) نے فرمایا کہ بہت جلد اللہ تمہارے دشمن کو ہلاک کر دے گا اور بجائے ان کے تم کو اس سرزمین کا خلیفہ بنا دے گا پھر تمہارا طرز عمل دیکھے گا۔[3]
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 The chiefs of Pharaoh's people said, "Will you let Moses and his people cause trouble in the land, and forsake you and your gods?" He said, "We will kill their sons, and spare their women. We have absolute power over them."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 The chiefs of Pharaoh's people said: (O King), wilt thou suffer Moses and his people to make mischief in the land, and flout thee and thy gods? He said: We will slay their sons and spare their women, for lo! we are in power over them
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And the chiefs of Pharaoh's people said, 'Will ye leave Moses and his people, to do evil in the land, and to leave thee and thy gods?' Said he, 'We will have their sons slain and their women we will let live, for, verily, we are triumphant over them
John Medows Rodwell1861 Then said the chiefs of Pharaoh's people - "Wilt thou let Moses and his people go to spread disorders in our land, and desert thee and thy gods?" He said, "We will cause their male children to be slain and preserve their females alive: and verily we shall be masters over them
George Sale1734 And the chiefs of pharaoh's people said, 'Wilt thou leave Moses and his people to create disorder in the land and forsake thee and thy gods?' He answered, 'We will ruthlessly slay their sons and let their women live. And surely we are dominant over them
Easy-read (simplified)qaala moosaa liqawmihi sta'eenoo billaahi wasbiroo inna l-'arda lillaahi yoorithuhaa man yashaa'u min 'ibaadihi wal-'aaqibatu lilmuttaqeen
DIN 31635qāla mūsā liqawmihi staʿīnū billāhi waṣbirū ʾinna l-ʾarḍa lillāhi yūriṯuhā man yašāʾu min ʿibādihi wal-ʿāqibatu lilmuttaqīna
Talal Itani2012 Moses said to his people, "Seek help in God, and be patient. The earth belongs to God. He gives it in inheritance to whomever He wills of His servants, and the future belongs to the righteous."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And Moses said unto his people: Seek help in Allah and endure. Lo! the earth is Allah's. He giveth it for an inheritance to whom He will. And lo! the sequel is for those who keep their duty (unto Him)
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Said Moses unto his people, 'Ask for aid from God and be patient; verily, the earth is God's! He gives it for an inheritance to whom He pleases of His servants, and the future is for those who fear
John Medows Rodwell1861 Said Moses to his people, "Cry unto God for help, and bear up patiently, for the earth is God's: to such of His servants as He pleaseth doth He give it as a heritage; and for those that fear Him is a happy issue
George Sale1734 Moses said to his people, 'Seek help from God and be steadfast. Verily the earth is God's; He gives it as a heritage to whomsoever He pleases of His servants and the good end is for the God-fearing
Talal Itani2012 When something good came their way, they said, "This is ours." And when something bad happened to them, they ascribed the evil omen to Moses and those with him. In fact, their omen is with God, but most of them do not know.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But whenever good befell them, they said: This is ours; and whenever evil smote them they ascribed it to the evil auspices of Moses and those with him. Surely their evil auspice was only with Allah. But most of them knew not
Edward Henry Palmer1880 but when there came to them a good thing they said, 'This is ours;' and if there befell them an evil, they took the augury from Moses and those with him; - is not their augury only in God's hands? - but most of them know not
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when good fell to their lot they said, "This is our due." But if ill befel them, they regarded Moses and his partisans as (the birds) of evil omen. Yet, was not their evil omen from God? But most of them knew it not
George Sale1734 But whenever good befell them, they said, 'This is for us.' And if evil afflicted them, they ascribed the evil fortune to Moses and those with him. Now, surely, the cause of their evil fortune was with God. But most of them know not
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 —
0.53 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
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.65
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.61
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.57
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.55
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.54
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.49
Talal Itani · George Sale0.49
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.45
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.45
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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.