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YUSUFALI : And his people gave no answer but this: they said, "Drive them out of your city: these are indeed men who want to be clean and pure!"

PICKTHAL : And the answer of his people was only that they said (one to another): Turn them out of your township. They are folk, forsooth, who keep pure.

SHAKIR : And the answer of his people was no other than that they said: Turn them out of your town, surely they are a people who seek to purify (themselves).

M& HILALI : And the answer of his people was only that they said: "Drive them out of your town, these are indeed men who want to be pure (from sins)!"