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persecuted.’ He said, ‘Your Lord from us, we will surely believe
may well destroy your enemy in you and let the Children of
and make you successors to the Israel go with you,’ 135 but
land. Then He will see how you whenever We removed the
conduct yourselves.’ plague from them, giving them
130
We afflicted Pharaoh’s time to make good their promise,
people with shortages of food they would break their word.
and famine so that they might 136 So We exacted retribution
take heed, 131 then when from them and drowned them in
something good came to them, the sea, because they rejected
they said, ‘It is our due!’—but Our signs and paid no heed to
when something bad came, they them; 137 We made the people
ascribed it as an ill-omen to who were considered weak
Moses and those with him. Surely inheritors of the eastern parts
their [evil] fortune had been and western parts of the land
decreed by God, but most of which We had blessed. Thus
them did not know this. 132 They your Lord’s good promise to the
said, ‘Whatever miracles you Children of Israel was fulfilled,
work to bewitch us, we will not because of their patience, and
believe in you.’ We destroyed all that Pharaoh
133 Then We afflicted them and his people had built and all
with storms, and locusts, and that they had raised high.
lice, and frogs, and blood: so 138 We brought the Children of
many clear signs. But they were Israel across the sea and they
steeped in arrogance, for they came upon a people who were
were a people given to sin. devoted to their idols. They said,
134 Whenever a plague struck ‘Moses, give us a god just like
them, they would say, ‘Moses, the gods these people have.’ He
pray to your Lord for us by virtue said, ‘You are indeed an ignorant
of the promise He has made to people: 139 what they are engaged
you: if you remove this plague in is doomed to destruction and