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Whenever a plague befell them, they would say, "O Moses, pray to your Lord for us, according to the covenant He made with you. If you lift the plague from us, we will believe in you, and let the Children of Israel go with you."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Compare translations (4)Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
And when the terror fell on them they cried: O Moses! Pray for us unto thy Lord, because He hath a covenant with thee. If thou removest the terror from us we verily will trust thee and will let the Children of Israel go with thee
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 when there fell upon them the plague, they said, 'O Moses! call upon thy Lord for us, as He has covenanted with thee; verily, if thou dost remove the plague from us, we will believe in thee; and we will assuredly send with thee the children of Israel
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And when any plague fell upon them, they said, "O Moses! pray for us to thy Lord, according to that which he hath covenanted with thee: Truly if thou take off the plague from us, we will surely believe thee, and will surely send the children of Israel with thee
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Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And when there fell upon them the punishment, they said, 'O Moses, pray for us to thy Lord according to that which He has promised to thee. If thou remove from us the punishment, we will surely believe thee and we will surely send with thee the Children of Israel
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
Kur i godiste dënimi, ata thoshin: "O Musa, lute Zotin tënd për ne, për shkak të besës që të ka dhënë! Nëse na e heq fatkeqësinë, ne, me siguri, do të të besojmë dhe do t'i lëmë bijtë e Israilit të vijnë me ty."
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 যখন তাদের ওপর শাস্তি আসত হতো তখন তারা বলতো: ‘হে মূসা তুমি আমাদের জন্যে তোমার রবের কাছে দুআ করো, তিনি যে ওয়াদা তোমার সাথে করেছেন, সে অনুযায়ী।(২৭) যদি তুমি আমাদের ওপর থেকে শাস্তি সরিয়ে দাও, তাহলে অবশ্যই আমরা তোমার প্রতি ঈমান আনবো এবং বানূ ইসরাঈলকে অবশ্যই তোমার সাথে যেতে দিবো।’
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
I kad bi ih zadesila patnja, govorili bi: "O Musa, moli se za nas Gospodaru svome – onako kako ti je On naredio. Ako nas oslobodiš patnje, mi ćemo zaista vjerovati i s tobom ćemo sinove Israilove zbilja poslati."
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
I kad bi ih zadesila patnja, govorili bi: "O Mojsije, moli se za nas Gospodaru svome – onako kako ti je On naredio. Ako nas oslobodiš patnje, mi ćemo zaista vjerovati i s tobom ćemo sinove Izraelove zbilja poslati."
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
Tuma nde lepte ɗeen njannoo e maɓɓe, ɓe mbi'i : "ko an Muusaa, torano amen Joomi maa sabu kon ko O ahodi e maaɗa. Si a huncanii amen ɗee lepte, ma men ngooŋɗine, ma min accide kadi e ɓiɗɓe Israa'iila ɓeen".
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და როცა მათ [ფარაონსა და მის ხალხს] დაატყდათ სასჯელი, თქვეს: «ო, მუსა! მიმართე ჩვენთვის შენს უფალს, როგორც მან დაგიდო აღთქმა შენთან. თუ შენ მოგვაცილებ ამ სასჯელს, ჩვენ აუცილებლად ვირწმუნებთ და უეჭველად გავგზავნით შენთან ერთად ისრაელის ძეებს».
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Als sodann die unheilvolle Strafe über sie kam, sagten sie: „O Musa, rufe für uns deinen Herrn an aufgrund Seines Bundes mit dir. Wenn du die unheilvolle Strafe hinwegnimmst, werden wir dir ganz gewiss glauben und die Kinder Israils ganz gewiss mit dir wegschicken.“
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
Όταν έπεσε η τιμωρία πάνω τους, είπαν: «Ω, Μωυσή! Επικαλέσου τον Κύριό σου για μας, χάρις όσων παραχώρησε σε σένα (από αποκάλυψη και θρησκεία). Εάν αφαιρέσεις αυτήν την τιμωρία από μας, σίγουρα θα πιστέψουμε σε σένα και θα αφήσουμε τα παιδιά του Ισραήλ να πάνε μαζί σου.»
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
और जब उनपर यातना आती, तो कहते : ऐ मूसा! तुम अपने पालनहार से हमारे लिए उस प्रतिज्ञा के आधार पर दुआ करो, जो उसने तुमसे कर रखी है। यदि तुम (अपनी दुआ से) हमसे यह यातना दूर कर दो, तो हम अवश्य ही तुमपर ईमान ले आएँगे और तुम्हारे साथ बनी इसराईल को अवश्य भेज देंगे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E quando li colpì la punizione, dissero: «O Mūsā, invoca per noi il tuo Dio in base a ciò che ti promise! Se tu ci liberi da questa piaga ti crederemo e lasceremo partire con te il popolo d’Israīl!»
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
134. O kai juos ištiko bausmė, jie sakė: „Mūsa (Moze), maldauk savo Viešpaties dėl mūsų dėl Jo Pažado tau. Jei panaikinsi mūsų bausmę, mes tikrai patikėsime tavimi ir leisime Israelio (Izraelio) vaikams eiti su tavimi.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.8
Afaan Oromoo · Oromo
Yeroo azaabni isaan irratti bu'u ni jedhan: "yaa Muusaa! Gooftaa kee nuuf kadhu waan Inni si biraa waadaa qabuun , yoo ati azaabicha nurraa saaqxe, Dhugumatti, nuti siif amanna; Ilmaan Israa’il si waliin ergina (nibilisoomsina)."
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
А когда их постигла кара, они сказали: «О Муса! Воззови за нас к своему Господу по тому обещанию, которое Он дал тебе. Если ты отведёшь от нас кару, мы непременно уверуем в тебя и непременно отпустим с тобой сынов Исраила».
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
И кад би их задесила патња, говорили би: „О Мојсије, моли се за нас своме Господару - онако како ти је Он наредио. Ако нас ослободиш патње, ми ћемо заиста да верујемо и са тобом ћемо сигурно да пошаљемо синове Израиљеве.“
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 ilipowaangukia adhabu, wakasema, "Ewe Musa! Tuombee kwa Mola wako Mlezi kwa yale aliyokuahidi. Ukituondolea adhabu hii, hakuna shaka tutakuamini, na tutawaachilia Wana wa Israili waende pamoja nawe."
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Och när de drabbades av straffet sa de: ”Mose! Be till din Herre för vår skull, att infria löftet han gav dig [att straffet lyfts om vi ångrar oss]! Om du skonar oss från detta straff ska vi tro på dig och låta israeliterna gå fria med dig.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Üzerlerine azap çökünce: “Ey Mûsâ! Sana olan ahdi adına bizim için Rabbine dua et. Şâyet bu azabı bizden kaldırırsan, andolsun sana iman edeceğiz ve İsrailoğullarını da mutlaka seninle birlikte göndereceğiz” dediler.
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اردو · Urdu
اور جب ان پر کوئی عذاب واقع ہوتا تو یوں کہتے کہ اے موسیٰ! ہمارے لیے اپنے رب سے اس بات کی دعا کر دیجئے! جس کا اس نے آپ سے عہد کر رکھا ہے، اگر آپ اس عذاب کو ہم سے ہٹا دیں تو ہم ضرور ضرور آپ کے کہنے سے ایمان لے آئیں گے اور ہم بنی اسرائیل کو بھی (رہا کر کے) آپ کے ہمراه کر دیں گے۔
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Talal Itani2012 So We let loose upon them the flood, and the locusts, and the lice, and the frogs, and blood-all explicit signs-but they were too arrogant. They were a sinful people.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 So We sent against them the flood and the locusts and the vermin and the frogs and the blood - a succession of clear signs. But they were arrogant and became a guilty folk
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Then we sent upon them the flood and the locusts and the lice and the frogs and the blood, - signs detailed; but they were big with pride and were a people who did sin
John Medows Rodwell1861 And we sent upon them the flood and the locusts and the kummal (lice) and the frogs and the blood, - clear signs - but they behaved proudly, and were a sinful people
George Sale1734 Then We sent upon them the storm and the locust and the lice and the frogs and the blood -- clear Signs; but they behaved proudly and were a sinful people
Talal Itani2012 But when We lifted the plague from them, for a term they were to fulfill, they broke their promise.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 But when We did remove from them the terror for a term which they must reach, behold! they broke their covenant
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But when we removed from them the plague until the appointed time which they should reach, lo! then they broke their promise
John Medows Rodwell1861 But when we had taken off the plague from them, and the time which God had granted them had expired, behold! they broke their promise
George Sale1734 But when We removed from them the punishment for a term which they were to reach, lo! they broke their promise
Talal Itani2012 So We took vengeance on them, and drowned them in the sea-because they rejected Our signs, and paid no heed to them.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Therefore We took retribution from them; therefore We drowned them in the sea: because they denied Our revelations and were heedless of them
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But we took vengeance on them, and we drowned them in the sea, for that they said our signs were lies and were careless thereof
John Medows Rodwell1861 Therefore we took vengeance on them and drowned them in the sea, because they treated our signs as falsehoods and were heedless of them
George Sale1734 So We took vengeance upon them and drowned them in the sea, because they treated Our Signs as lies and were heedless of them
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0.644
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Verses above it
2,079
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6,236
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.63
Talal Itani · George Sale0.60
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.56
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.56
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.54
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.52
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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.