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Muhammad Asad   
And how could you take it away after you have given yourselves to one another, and she has received a most solemn pledge from you
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab   
And how could you take it back after having enjoyed each other intimately and she has taken from you a firm commitment?
Safi Kaskas   
How could you take it away after you have been intimate with one another, and she has received a solemn pledge from you?

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Arabic   
وَكَیۡفَ تَأۡخُذُونَهُۥ وَقَدۡ أَفۡضَىٰ بَعۡضُكُمۡ إِلَىٰ بَعۡضࣲ وَأَخَذۡنَ مِنكُم مِّیثَـٰقًا غَلِیظࣰا ۝٢١
Transliteration (2021)   
wakayfa takhudhūnahu waqad afḍā baʿḍukum ilā baʿḍin wa-akhadhna minkum mīthāqan ghalīẓa
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And how could you take it when surely has gone - one of you to another, and they have taken from you covenant strong?

Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad   
And how could you take it away after you have given yourselves to one another, and she has received a most solemn pledge from you
M. M. Pickthall   
How can ye take it (back) after one of you hath gone in unto the other, and they have taken a strong pledge from you
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)   
And how could ye take it when ye have gone in unto each other, and they have Taken from you a solemn covenant
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab   
And how could you take it back after having enjoyed each other intimately and she has taken from you a firm commitment?
Safi Kaskas   
How could you take it away after you have been intimate with one another, and she has received a solemn pledge from you?
Wahiduddin Khan   
How can you take it when you have been intimate with one another, and she has taken a solemn pledge from you
Shakir   
And how can you take it when one of you has already gone in to the other and they have made with you a firm covenant
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar   
And how would you take it when one of you had sexual intercourse with the other and they (f) took from you an earnest solemn promise?
T.B.Irving   
How can you hold it back when you have had intercourse with each other, and they have made a solemn agreement with you?
Abdul Hye   
And how you could take it back when one of you has gone in to another (with happiness), and they have taken from you a firm pledge (of marriage)?
The Study Quran   
And how can you take it back, when you have lain with one another and they have made with you a solemn covenant
Talal Itani & AI (2024)   
How could you take it back after having shared intimate relations and they received a solemn covenant from you?
Talal Itani (2012)   
And how can you take it back, when you have been intimate with one another, and they have received from you a solid commitment
Dr. Kamal Omar   
And how could you take it back while one of you has gone in unto the other (in marital bond and relations), and (those who are wives to you) have obtained from you a written document (at the time of marriage, which is) firm (as evidence)
M. Farook Malik   
And how could you take it back when you have enjoyed conjugal happiness and she had taken from you a firm pledge of marriage
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali   
And how should you take it, and each of you has already gone privily with the other, (Literally: some of you have been privily with (some) and they have taken from you a solemn compact
Muhammad Sarwar   
How can you take it back when you have had intimate relations and made a solemn agreement with each other
Muhammad Taqi Usmani   
How can you take it when you have had access to each other and they have taken a firm covenant from you
Shabbir Ahmed   
And how could you take the marital gift back from her after you have lived intimately with each other and after she has taken from you a very Solemn Pledge of the marital contract
Dr. Munir Munshey   
How can you take anything back, after you have already consummated the relationship (and enjoyed each other)? She has secured from you a firm commitment
Syed Vickar Ahamed   
And how could you take it (back) when you have gone in unto each other, and they have taken from you a holy promise
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)   
And how could you take it while you have gone in unto each other and they have taken from you a solemn covenant
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)   
And how can you take it when you have become intimate with each other, and the women have taken from you a strong covenant
Abdel Haleem   
How could you take it when this is unjust and a blatant sin? How could you take it when you have lain with each other and they have taken a solemn pledge from you
Abdul Majid Daryabadi   
And how can ye take it back when one of you hath gone in unto the other, and they have obtained from you a rigid bond
Ahmed Ali   
How could you do that having slept with one another, and when they had taken a solemn pledge from you
Aisha Bewley   
How could you take it when you have been intimate with one another and they have made a binding contract with you?
Ali Ünal   
Then, how could you take it back when you have gone in to each other, and they (the married women) have taken from you a most solemn pledge (of honoring their rights)
Ali Quli Qara'i   
How could you take it back, when you have known each other, and they have taken from you a solemn covenant
Hamid S. Aziz   
How can you take it when one of you has gone in unto the other, and they have taken from you a solemn contract
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad   
And how do you take it while you have been alone with each other (having sexual relationship), and they took a strong commitment (marriage contract) from you?
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)   
And how could you take it when you have bonded with each other, and they have taken from you a solemn covenant
Musharraf Hussain   
How could you possibly take it after having enjoyed intimacy with each other? They took a solemn pledge from you
Maududi   
How can you take it away after each one has enjoyed the other, and they have taken a firm covenant from you
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)   
And how can you take it when you have become intimate with each other, and they have taken from you a solemn covenant.
Mohammad Shafi   
And how could you take it when you have had enjoyed conjugal relations with one another, and they had taken a firm pledge from you?h

Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)   
How you shall take it when each of you has already become unveiled before one another and they have taken from you a most firm covenant?
Rashad Khalifa   
How could you take it back, after you have been intimate with each other, and they had taken from you a solemn pledge?
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah   
How can you take it back when you have reached one another (sexually) and they have taken from you a strong covenant
Maulana Muhammad Ali   
And how can you take it when one of you has already gone in to the other and they have taken from you a strong covenant
Muhammad Ahmed & Samira   
And how do you take it and some of you to some had revealed and they (F) took from you a strong promise/covenant
Bijan Moeinian   
How can you even think about doing such a wrong thing when you offered her (whatever you offered as gift) with the most strong promise during the wedding
Faridul Haque   
And how will you take it back whereas you have become unveiled before each other, and they have taken a strong pledge from you
Sher Ali   
And how can you take it when one of you may have consorted with the other, and they (the women) have taken from you a strong covenant
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri   
And how can you take it back whilst you have had marital relations with each other, and they have (also) taken a firm promise from you
Amatul Rahman Omar   
And how can you take it when you have already lain with one another and they (- your wives) have bound you down to a firm and solemn covenant (by marriage)
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali   
And how could you take it (back) while you have gone in unto each other, and they have taken from you a firm and strong covenant

Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works
Arthur John Arberry   
How shall you take it, when each of you has been privily with the other, and they have taken from you a solemn compact
George Sale   
And how can ye take it, since the one of you hath gone in unto the other, and they have received from you a firm covenant
Edward Henry Palmer   
How care ye take it when one of you has gone in unto the other, and they have taken from you a rigid compact
John Medows Rodwell   
How, moreover, could ye take it, when one of you hath gone in unto the other, and they have received from you a strict bond of union
N J Dawood (2014)   
for how can you take it back when you have lain with each other and entered into a firm contract

New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Fode Drame   
And how can you take it when indeed you have yielded unto one another and they [women] had taken with you a binding covenant?
Munir Mezyed   
Would it possible for you to take it since both of you have gone in to each other, and they have taken from you a solemn covenant?.
Sahib Mustaqim Bleher   
And how can you take it when one of you has already spent time with the other and they have taken from you a binding promise?
Linda “iLHam” Barto   
How could you take away (a gift) after you had given yourselves to one another? She had already received a commitment from you.
Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation   
And how can you take it back when you have been intimate with one another and they have taken from you a solid pledge?
Irving & Mohamed Hegab   
How can you hold it back when you have had intercourse with each other, and they have made a solemn agreement with you?
Samy Mahdy   
And how do you take it, and already some of you conduce to some others, and they have taken from you a coarse charter?
Sayyid Qutb   
How can you take it away when each of you has been privy with the other, and they have received from you a most solemn pledge?
Ahmed Hulusi   
How can you take it back after you have united with one another and you have given them your word (during marriage)?
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli   
And how can you take it (back) when one of you has already gone in to the other and they have taken from you a firm covenant ?
Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur‘an al-Karim   
And how could you reclaim it when you have already entered into matrimony and communion with one another and your vows and solemn promise of allegiance and good will have been pledged to them before Allah
Mir Aneesuddin   
And how can you take it (back) when one of you has gone into the other and they have taken from you a strong pledge?

Obsolete and/or older editions
Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)   
And how could ye take it when ye have gone in unto each other, and they have Taken from you a solemn covenant
OLD Literal Word for Word   
And how could you take it when surely has gone - one of you to another, and they have taken from you covenant strong
OLD Transliteration   
Wakayfa ta/khuthoonahu waqad afda baAAdukum ila baAAdin waakhathna minkum meethaqan ghaleethan