Muhammad Habib Shakir: And when your Lord said to the angels: Surely I am going to create a mortal of the essence of black mud fashioned in shape.
Abdullah Yusuf Ali: Behold! thy Lord said to the angels: "I am about to create man, from sounding clay from mud moulded into shape;
M.Pickthall: And (remember) when thy Lord said unto the angels: Lo! I am creating a mortal out of potter´s clay of black mud altered,
Amatul Rahmân Omer: And (recall the time) when your Lord said to the angels, `I am, indeed, going to create a human being from dry ringing clay (formed) from black mud, moulded into shape.
