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Talal Itani· published 2012
He said, "Fall, some of you enemies to one another. On earth you will have residence and livelihood for a while."
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
He said: Go down (from hence), one of you a foe unto the other. There will be for you on earth a habitation and provision for a while
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
He said, 'Go ye down, one of you to the other a foe; but for you in the earth there is an abode, and a provision for a season
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
God said, get ye down, the one of you an enemy unto the other; and ye shall have a dwelling place upon earth, and a provision for a season
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
Allahu tha: "Zbritni! Ju do të jeni armiq të njëri-tjetrit. Në Tokë do të jetë vendbanimi dhe mjetet për jetesë deri në një kohë të caktuar.
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
আল্লাহ বললেন: ‘তোমরা নেমে যাও, তোমরা একে অন্যের শত্রু। পৃথিবীতে তোমাদের কিছুদিনের জন্য বসবাস ও জীবিকার ব্যবস্থা থাকবে।’
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
"Silazite!", reče On, "jedni drugima bit ćete neprijatelji! Na Zemlji ćete boraviti i do određenog vremena uživati."
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
"Silazite," reče On, "jedni drugima bit ćete neprijatelji! Na Zemlji ćete boraviti i do određenog vremena uživati."
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
[Alla] Daali : "njippee (ka leydi), yoga mon ko añɓe yoga. Hino woodani on ka leydi ton ñiiɓirde e dakamme haa saanga".
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
(ალლაჰმა) უთხრა (ადამს, ჰავასა და იბლისს): «დაეშვით (დედამიწაზე), ერთმანეთის მტრებად! თქვენთვის დედამიწაზე იქნება საცხოვრებელი ადგილი და სარგებლობა (მისი სიკეთეებით) განსაზღვრულ დრომდე».
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Er (also Allah) sagte: „Geht hinunter! Die einen von euch sind Feinde der anderen. Und auf der Erde sollt ihr Aufenthalt und Nießbrauch auf Zeit haben.“
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
Είπε (ο Αλλάχ): «Κατεβείτε (όλοι σας στη Γη), ως εχθροί μεταξύ σας, και θα έχετε στη Γη τόπο κατοικίας και αγαθά για κάποιο διάστημα.»
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
(अल्लाह ने) कहा : उतर जाओ। तुम एक-दूसरे के शत्रु हो और तुम्हारे लिए धरती में एक अवधि तक रहने का स्थान और कुछ जीवन-सामग्री है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Disse: «Scendete giù, nemici gli uni degli altri! Avrete in terra la vostra dimora e godimento fino a un tempo stabilito».
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
24. (Allahas) tarė: „Nešdinkitės, vienas iš jūsų yra priešas kitam [t. y. Adamas (Adomas), Hava (Ieva) ir Šaitan (Šėtonas)]. Žemėje bus jums gyvenamoji vieta ir laikinas malonumas.“
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
Он сказал: «Низвергнитесь, и одни из вас будут врагами другим. И на земле для вас — место пребывания и пользование [благами] до поры».
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
„Силазите!“ Рече Он. „Једни другима бићете непријатељи! На Земљи ћете да боравите и до одређеног времена ћете да уживате.“
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Akasema: Teremkeni! Nyinyi kwa nyinyi ni maadui. Nanyi katika ardhi mtakuwa na makao na starehe mpaka ufike muda.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Han sa: ”Ned med er! Ni ska vara varandras fiender. På jorden ska ni ha er boplats och där kan ni njuta av tillvaron under en bestämd tid.”
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
Türkçe · Turkish
(Yüce Allah) buyurdu ki: “Birbirinize düşman olarak oradan inin! Siz yeryüzünde bir süreye kadar yerleşip kalacak ve orada geçineceksiniz.”
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
حق تعالیٰ نے فرمایا کہ نیچے ایسی حالت میں جاؤ کہ تم باہم ایک دوسرے کے دشمن ہوگے اور تمہارے واسطے زمین میں رہنے کی جگہ ہے اور نفع حاصل کرنا ہے ایک وقت تک۔
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.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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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
DIN 31635qālā rabbanā ẓalamnā ʾanfusanā waʾin lam taġfir lanā watarḥamnā lanakūnanna mina l-ḫāsirīna
Talal Itani2012 They said, "Our Lord, we have done wrong to ourselves. Unless You forgive us, and have mercy on us, we will be among the losers."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 They said: Our Lord! We have wronged ourselves. If thou forgive us not and have not mercy on us, surely we are of the lost
Edward Henry Palmer1880 They said, 'O our Lord! we have wronged ourselves - and if Thou dost not forgive us and have mercy on us, we shall surely be of those who are lost
John Medows Rodwell1861 They said, "O our Lord! With ourselves have we dealt unjustly: if thou forgive us not and have pity on us, we shall surely be of those who perish
George Sale1734 They answered, O Lord, we have dealt unjustly with our own souls; and if thou forgive us not, and be not merciful unto us, we shall surely be of those who perish
DIN 31635yā banī ʾādama qad ʾanzalnā ʿalaykum libāsan yuwārī sawʾātikum warīšan walibāsu t-taqwā ḏālika ḫayrun ḏālika min ʾāyāti llāhi laʿallahum yaḏḏakkarūna
Talal Itani2012 O children of Adam! We have provided you with clothing to cover your bodies, and for luxury. But the clothing of piety-that is best. These are some of God's revelations, so that they may take heed.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 O Children of Adam! We have revealed unto you raiment to conceal your shame, and splendid vesture, but the raiment of restraint from evil, that is best. This is of the revelations of Allah, that they may remember
Edward Henry Palmer1880 O sons of Adam! we have sent down to you garments wherewith to cover your shame, and plumage; but the garment of piety, that is better. That is one of the signs of God, haply ye may remember
John Medows Rodwell1861 O children of Adam! now have we sent down to you raiment to hide your nakedness, and splendid garments; but the raiment of piety - this is best. This is one of the signs of God, that man haply may reflect
George Sale1734 O children of Adam, we have sent down unto you apparel, to conceal your nakedness, and fair garments; but the cloathing of piety is better. This is one of the signs of God; that peradventure ye may consider
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 —
0.58 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
computed, not judged.
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 · George Sale0.74
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.71
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.63
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.62
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.55
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.55
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.45
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.34
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
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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.