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And We brought the Children of Israel across the sea, and they came unto a people who were given up to idols which they had. They said: O Moses! Make for us a god even as they have gods. He said: Lo! ye are a folk who know not
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
Compare translations (4)Talal Itani· published 2012
And We delivered the Children of Israel across the sea. And when they came upon a people who were devoted to some statues of theirs, they said, "O Moses, make for us a god, as they have gods." He said, "You are truly an ignorant people."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
And with the children of Israel we passed across the sea; and they came unto a people devoted to their idols, and said, 'O Moses! make for us a god as they have gods.' Said he, 'Verily, ye are ignorant people
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And we brought the children of Israel across the sea, and they came to a people who gave themselves up to their idols. They said, "O Moses! make us a god, as they have gods." He said, "Verily, ye are an ignorant people
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And We brought the Children of Israel across the sea and they came to a people who were devoted to their idols. They said, 'O Moses, make for us a god just as they have gods.' He said, 'Surely you are an ignorant people
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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 i kaluam bijtë e Israilit përtej detit, ku takuan një popull që adhuronin idhujt e tyre. Ata thanë: "O Musa, na bëj edhe neve një zot, ashtu siç kanë ata zota!" Ai tha: "Vërtet, ju jeni popull i paditur.
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর আমি বানূ ইসরাঈলকে সাগর পার করিয়ে দেই। অতঃপর তারা এমন এক সম্প্রদায়ের পাশ দিয়ে যাচ্ছিলো, যারা নিজেদের মূর্তিগুলোর পূজায় নিমগ্ন ছিল। তারা বললো: ‘হে মূসা! তাদের যেমন উপাস্য আছে, আমাদের জন্যও তেমনি একজন উপাস্য নির্ধারণ করে দাও।’ সে বললো: ‘নিশ্চয় তোমরা এক মূর্খ সম্প্রদায়।’(৩১)
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Bosanski · Bosnian
I Mi sinove Israilove preko mora prevedosmo, pa oni naiđoše na narod koji je privržen obožavanju kumira svojih bio. "O Musa", rekoše, "napravi i ti nama boga kao što i oni imaju bogove!" "Vi ste, uistinu, narod koji ne zna!", reče on.
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Hrvatski · Croatian
I Mi sinove Izraelove preko mora prevedosmo, pa oni naiđoše na narod koji je privržen obožavanju kumira svojih bio. "O Mojsije," rekoše, "napravi i ti nama boga kao što i oni imaju bogove!" "Vi ste, uistinu, narod koji ne zna!" reče on.
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Fulfulde · Fulani
Min lummbini ɓiɗɓe Israa'iila ɓen maayo ngon, ɓe ndewi e yimɓe ñiiɓuɓe (e dewugol) sanamuuji mu'un, ɓe mbi : "ehey Muusaa, waɗan amen deweteeɗo wano deweteeɗi woodirani ɓe non". O maaki : "Pellet, onon ko on yimɓe majjooɓe".
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ქართული · Georgian
და გადავიყვანეთ ისრაელის ძეები ზღვაზე, და მივიდნენ ისინი იმ ხალხთან, რომლებიც თაყვანს სცემდნენ თავიანთ კერპებს.(ისრაელის ძეებმა) თქვეს: «ო, მუსა! დაგვიდგინე ჩვენთვისაც ღმერთი, ისე როგორც მათ ჰყავთ ღმერთები». (მუსამ) თქვა: «უეჭველად, თქვენ უმეცარი ხალხი ხართ».
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Deutsch · German
Und Wir ließen die Kinder lsrails das Meer durchschreiten. Sie kamen zu Leuten, die sich zur Anbetung ihrer Götzen zurückgezogen hatten. Sie (also die Kinder lsrails) sagten: „O Musa, mache uns einen Angebeteten, so wie sie Angebetete haben!“ Er sagte: „Ihr seid ja Leute, die unwissend sind.“
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Ελληνικά · Greek
Κάναμε τα παιδιά του Ισραήλ να περάσουν το νερό (αφού διατάξαμε τον Μωυσή να το χτυπήσει με το ραβδί του και έτσι σχίστηκε σε δύο), μετά πέρασαν από έναν λαό που λάτρευε τα είδωλά του. Είπαν: «Ω, Μωυσή! Κάνε για μας έναν θεό (δηλ. είδωλο), όπως αυτοί έχουν θεούς (είδωλα).» Είπε (ο Μωυσής): «Πράγματι, είστε ένας λαός που αγνοεί (τη Μεγαλοπρέπεια του Αλλάχ).
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हिन्दी · Hindi
और हमने बनी इसराईल को सागर के पार उतार दिया। तो वे एक ऐसी जाति पर आए, जो अपनी कुछ मूर्तियों पर जमी बैठी थी। उन्होंने कहा : ऐ मूसा! हमारे लिए कोई पूज्य बना दीजिए, जैसे इनके कुछ पूज्य हैं। (मूसा ने) कहा : निःसंदेह तुम ऐसे लोग हो जो नादानी करते हो।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
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Italiano · Italian
Poi facemmo attraversare il mare ai figli d’Israīl, e trovarono un popolo che adorava alcuni idoli, che possedevano. Dissero: «Mūsā, realizza per noi un idolo simile a quelli che hanno loro!» Disse: «In verità siete un popolo ignorante!
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
138. Ir Mes pernešėme Israelio (Izraelio) vaikus (saugiai) per jūrą, ir jie susidūrė su žmonėmis, atsidavusiais kai kuriems savo stabams (garbinime). Jie tarė: „O Mūsa (Moze), pagamink mums ilah [4] (dievybę) taip, kaip ir jie turi alihah (dievybes).“ Jis tarė: „Iš tiesų, jūs esate nežinantys žmonės (Allaho Didybės ir Didingumo bei to, kas jums privaloma, t. y. negarbinti nieko kito tik Allahą Vienintelį, Vienintelį viso, kas egzistuoja, Dievą.)“
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Русский · Russian
Мы провели сынов Исраила через море, и они пришли к народу, который пребывал в поклонении своим идолам. Они сказали: «О Муса! Сделай нам божество, подобно тому, как у них есть божества». Он сказал: «Воистину, вы — невежественные люди!
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Српски · Serbian
И Ми синове Израиљеве преведосмо преко мора, па они наиђоше на народ који је био привржен обожавању својих кипова. „О Мојсије“, рекоше, „направи и ти нама бога као што и они имају богове!“ „Ви сте, уистину, народ који не зна!“ Рече он.
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Kiswahili · Swahili
Na tukawavusha bahari Wana wa Israili, kisha wakajia kaumu waliokuwa wanayaabudu masanamu yao. Wakasema, "Ewe Musa! Tufanyie mungu kama hawa walivyo na miungu." Musa akasema: Hakika nyinyi ni kaumu msiojua kitu.
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Svenska · Swedish
Vi förde israeliterna genom havet, och de kom till ett folk som hängav sig åt sina avgudabilder. De sa: ”Mose! Gör en gud åt oss likadan som deras gudar!” Han svarade: ”Ni är verkligen ett ovetande folk!
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Türkçe · Turkish
İsrailoğulları'nı denizden geçirmiştik. Kendilerine ait bir takım putlarına ibadet edip, duran bir topluluğa rastgeldiler. "Ey Mûsâ! Bunların ilahları gibi bize de bir ilah yapsana!" dediler. Mûsâ da onlara: "Şüphesiz, cahillik eden bir toplumsunuz!" dedi.
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اردو · Urdu
اور ہم نے بنی اسرائیل کو دریا سے پار اتار دیا۔ پس ان لوگوں کا ایک قوم پر گزر ہوا جو اپنے چند بتوں سے لگے بیٹھے تھے، کہنے لگے اے موسیٰ! ہمارے لیے بھی ایک معبود ایسا ہی مقرر کر دیجئے! جیسے ان کے یہ معبود ہیں۔ آپ نے فرمایا کہ واقعی تم لوگوں میں بڑی جہالت ہے۔[1]
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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
Talal Itani2012 And We made the oppressed people inherit the eastern and western parts of the land, which We had blessed. Thus the fair promise of your Lord to the Children of Israel was fulfilled, because of their endurance. And We destroyed what Pharaoh and his people had built, and what they had harvested.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And We caused the folk who were despised to inherit the eastern parts of the land and the western parts thereof which We had blessed. And the fair word of thy Lord was fulfilled for the Children of Israel because of their endurance; and We annihilated (all) that Pharaoh and his folk had done and that they had contrived
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And we gave as an inheritance unto the people who had been weak, the eastern quarters of the earth and the western quarters thereof, which we had blest; and the good word of thy Lord was fulfilled on the children of Israel, for that they were patient; and we destroyed that which Pharaoh and his people had made and that which they had piled
John Medows Rodwell1861 And we gave to the people who had been brought so low, the eastern and the western lands, which we had blessed as an heritage: and the good word of thy Lord was fulfilled on the children of Israel because they had borne up with patience: and we destroyed the works and the structures of Pharaoh and his people
George Sale1734 And We caused the people who were considered weak to inherit the eastern parts of the land and the western parts thereof, which We blessed. And the gracious word of thy Lord was fulfilled for the Children of Israel because they were steadfast; and We utterly destroyed all that Pharaoh and his people has built and all that they had erected
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.39 on a scale
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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 · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.47
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.45
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.44
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.43
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.41
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.37
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.37
Talal Itani · George Sale0.33
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.33
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.29
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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.