Easy-read (simplified)fawaswasa lahumaa sh-shaytaanu liyubdiya lahumaa maa wooriya 'anhumaa min saw'aatihimaa waqaala maa nahaakumaa rabbukumaa 'an haadhihi sh-shajarati illaa an takoonaa malakayni aw takoonaa mina l-khaalideen
DIN 31635fawaswasa lahumā š-šayṭānu liyubdiya lahumā mā wūriya ʿanhumā min sawʾātihimā waqāla mā nahākumā rabbukumā ʿan hāḏihi š-šaǧarati ʾillā ʾan takūnā malakayni ʾaw takūnā mina l-ḫālidīna
Marked words appear in this translation and in no other English translation of this verse. Common small words and older spellings are not marked. The marks show where the wording differs, not where the meaning does.
Talal Itani· published 2012
But Satan whispered to them, to reveal to them their nakedness, which was invisible to them. He said, "Your Lord has only forbidden you this tree, lest you become angels, or become immortals."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Then Satan whispered to them that he might manifest unto them that which was hidden from them of their shame, and he said: Your Lord forbade you from this tree only lest ye should become angels or become of the immortals
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
But Satan whispered to them to display to them what was keptback from them of their shame, and he said, 'Your Lord has only forbidden you this tree lest ye should be twain angels, or should become of the immortals
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Then Satan whispered them to shew them their nakedness, which had been hidden from them both. And he said, "This tree hath your Lord forbidden you, only lest ye should become angels, or lest ye should become immortals
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And Satan suggested to them both, that he would discover unto them their nakedness, which was hidden from them; and he said, your Lord hath not forbidden you this tree, for any other reason but lest ye should become angels, or lest ye become immortal
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
Shejtani u pëshpëriti atyre për të zbuluar pjesët e tyre të turpshme që i kishin të mbuluara dhe u tha: "Zoti juaj jua ka ndaluar këtë pemë vetëm që të mos bëheni melekë ose të pavdekshëm."
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
তারপর শয়তান তাদের দুজনকে কুমন্ত্রণা দিল, যাতে তাদের লজ্জাস্থান, যা তাদের কাছে গোপন রাখা হয়েছিল তা তাদের কাছে প্রকাশ হয়ে পড়ে। আর সে বলল: ‘তোমাদের রব তোমাদেরকে এ গাছকে নিষিদ্ধ করেছেন, কারণ তোমরা উভয় ফিরিশতা হয়ে না যাও কিংবা তোমরা স্থায়ীদের অন্তর্ভুক্ত হয়ে না পড়ো।’
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
I šejtan ih poče navraćati da bi im otkrio stidna mjesta njihova, koja su im skrivena bila, i reče: "Gospodar vaš zabranjuje vam ovo drvo samo zato da ne biste meleki postali ili da ne biste u redovima besmrtnika bili",
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 sotona ih poče navraćati da bi im otkrio stidna mjesta njihova, koja su im skrivena bila, i reče: "Gospodar vaš zabranjuje vam ovo drvo samo zato da ne biste anđeli postali ili da ne biste u redovima besmrtnika bili",
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
Seytaane sowinsini ɓe, fii yo o feññinan ɓe ko suuɗaa e maɓɓe e awraaji maɓɓe, o wi'i : "Joomi mon haɗiraani on ki lekkil si wanaa fii wata on laato maleykaaji maa laatoɗon duumotooɓe [ka Aljanna]".
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და ჩაუგონა მათ ორს [წააქეზა ადამი და ჰავა] სატანამ, რათა გაეხსნა მათთვის ის, რაც დამალული იყო ორივესგან, მათი სიშიშვლისაგან, და თქვა: «თქვენმა უფალმა აგიკრძალათ ეს ხე მხოლოდ იმისთვის, რომ არ გახდეთ ანგელოზები ან არ გახდეთ მარადიულნი».
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 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Da flüsterte ihnen der Satan ein, um ihnen offen zu zeigen, was ihnen von ihrer Blöße verborgen war. Und er sagte: „Euer Herr hat euch diesen Baum nur verboten, damit ihr nicht Engel werdet oder zu den Ewiglebenden gehört.“
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
Έτσι, ο Σατανάς τους ψιθύρισε για να κάνει (ως συνέπεια), να φανερωθούν σ' αυτούς ό,τι ήταν καλυμμένο από το να το δουν, από τα απόκρυφα σημεία τους. Είπε (ο Σατανάς): «Ο Κύριός σας δε σας απαγόρεψε αυτό το δέντρο παρά μόνο για να μην γίνετε δύο άγγελοι ή να είστε από τους αθάνατους!»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
फिर शैतान ने उन दोनों के हृदय में वसवसा डाला। ताकि उनके लिए प्रकट कर दे जो कुछ उनके गुप्तांगों में से उनसे छिपाया गया था, और उसने कहा : तुम दोनों के पालनहार ने तुम्हें इस पेड़ से केवल इसलिए मना किया है कि कहीं तुम दोनों फ़रिश्ते न बन जाओ, अथवा हमेशा रहने वालों में से न हो जाओ।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Satana li tentò per far scoprire loro ciò che gli era nascosto delle loro intimità. E disse: «Il vostro Dio vi ha proibito questo albero solo perché potreste diventare due angeli o due immortali».
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
20. Tada Šaitan (Šėtonas) pašnibždėjo jiems abiem patarimą, kad atidengtų tai, kas buvo paslėpta nuo jų iš jų intymių vietų (prieš tai). Jis tarė: „Jūsų Viešpats uždraudė jums šį medį tik tam, kad jūs netaptumėte angelais arba netaptumėte nemirtingaisiais.“
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.
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 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Но шайтан нашептал им обоим, чтобы раскрыть перед ними то из их наготы, что было скрыто от них, и сказал: «Ваш Господь запретил вам то древо, чтобы вы не стали ангелами или не оказались вечно живущими».
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 ђаво поче да их навраћа да би им открио њихова стидна места, која су им скривена била, и рече: „Ваш Господар вам забрањује ово дрво само зато да не бисте постали анђели или да не бисте постали бесмртни“,
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
Basi Shetani akawatia wasiwasi ili awafichulie tupu zao walizofichwa, na akasema: Hakuwakataza Mola wenu Mlezi mti huu isipokuwa mkaja kuwa Malaika, au mkawa katika wanaoishi milele.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Men Satan frestade dem för att blotta det av deras nakenhet som hade varit dolt för dem. Han sa: ”Enda skälet till att er Herre förbjudit er från [att närma er] detta träd är för att hindra er från att bli änglar eller från att få evigt liv.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Şeytan, örtülü olan avret yerlerini onlara göstermek için ikisine de vesvese vererek “Rabbiniz size bu ağacı sırf melek olursunuz veya ebedî kalanlardan olursunuz diye yasakladı.” dedi.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
پھر شیطان نے ان دونوں کے دلوں میں وسوسہ[1] ڈاﻻ تاکہ ان کی شرمگاہیں جو ایک دوسرے سے پوشیده تھیں دونوں کے روبرو بے پرده[2] کردے اور کہنے لگا کہ تمہارے رب نے تم دونوں کو اس درخت سے اور کسی سبب سے منع نہیں فرمایا، مگر محض اس وجہ سے کہ تم دونوں کہیں فرشتے ہوجاؤ یا کہیں ہمیشہ زنده رہنے والوں میں سے ہوجاؤ۔
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 He said, "Get out of it, despised and vanquished. Whoever among them follows you-I will fill up Hell with you all.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 He said: Go forth from hence, degraded, banished. As for such of them as follow thee, surely I will fill hell with all of you
Edward Henry Palmer1880 He said, 'Go forth there-from, despised, expelled; whoso follows thee, I will surely fill hell with you altogether
John Medows Rodwell1861 He said, "Go forth from it, a scorned, a banished one! Whoever of them shall follow thee, I will surely fill hell with you, one and all
George Sale1734 God said unto him, get thee hence, despised, and driven far away: Verily whoever of them shall follow thee, I will surely fill hell with you all
Easy-read (simplified)wayaa aadamu skun anta wazawjuka l-jannata fakulaa min haythu shi'tumaa walaa taqrabaa haadhihi sh-shajarata fatakoonaa mina z-zaalimeen
DIN 31635wayā ʾādamu skun ʾanta wazawǧuka l-ǧannata fakulā min ḥayṯu šiʾtumā walā taqrabā hāḏihi š-šaǧarata fatakūnā mina ẓ-ẓālimīna
Talal Itani2012 And you, Adam, inhabit the Garden, you and your wife, and eat whatever you wish; but do not approach this tree, lest you become sinners."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And (unto man): O Adam! Dwell thou and thy wife in the Garden and eat from whence ye will, but come not nigh this tree lest ye become wrong-doers
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But, O Adam, dwell thou and thy wife in Paradise and eat from whence ye will, but draw not nigh unto this tree or ye will be of the unjust
John Medows Rodwell1861 And, O Adam! dwell thou and thy wife in Paradise, and eat ye whence ye will, but to this tree approach not, lest ye become of the unjust doers
George Sale1734 But as for thee, O Adam, dwell thou and thy wife in paradise; and eat of the fruit thereof where-ever ye will; but approach not this tree, lest ye become of the number of the unjust
Talal Itani2012 So he lured them with deceit. And when they tasted the tree, their nakedness became evident to them, and they began covering themselves with the leaves of the Garden. And their Lord called out to them, "Did I not forbid you from this tree, and say to you that Satan is a sworn enemy to you?"
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Thus did he lead them on with guile. And when they tasted of the tree their shame was manifest to them and they began to hide (by heaping) on themselves some of the leaves of the Garden. And their Lord called them, (saying): Did I not forbid you from that tree and tell you: Lo! Satan is an open enemy to you
Edward Henry Palmer1880 and he beguiled them by deceit, and when they twain tasted of the tree, their shame was shown them, and they began to stitch upon themselves the leaves of the garden. And their Lord called unto them, 'Did I not forbid you from that tree there, and say to you, Verily, Satan is to you an open foe
John Medows Rodwell1861 So he beguiled them by deceits: and when they had tasted of the tree, their nakedness appeared to them, and they began to sew together upon themselves the leaves of the garden. And their Lord called to them, "Did I not forbid you this tree, and did I not say to you, 'Verily, Satan is your declared enemy
George Sale1734 And he caused them to fall through deceit. And when they had tasted of the tree, their nakedness appeared unto them; and they began to join together the leaves of paradise, to cover themselves. And their Lord called to them, saying, did I not forbid you this tree; and did I not say unto you, verily Satan is your declared enemy
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 —
0.48 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
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.60
Talal Itani · George Sale0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.51
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.50
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.50
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.47
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.44
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.43
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.43
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.39
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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.