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asked, ‘What about the previous assemble when the sun has risen
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generations?’ Moses said, ‘My high.’ 60 So Pharaoh withdrew,
Lord alone has knowledge of devised his stratagem and
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that, recorded in a Book. My returned. Moses said to them,
Lord neither errs nor forgets.’ ‘Woe to you! Do not invent
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It is He who has laid out the lies against God, lest He
earth for you and traced routes in destroy you by some calamity:
it and sent down water from the whoever invents lies is bound
sky. We have brought forth every to fail.’
sort of plant with it, 54 so eat 62 Then they [the magicians]
and graze your cattle. In this conferred among themselves,
there are signs for men of whispering to one another.
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understanding. From the earth 63 They said, ‘Certainly they are
We have created you and We will both magicians who want to
return you to it, and from it We drive you out of your land by
shall bring you forth a second their magic, and destroy your
time. a best traditions. 64 Therefore,
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We showed Pharaoh all Our decide upon your plan and then
signs but he rejected them and come forward in ranks. Whoever
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refused to believe in them. He gains the upper hand today shall
said, ‘Have you come to us to surely triumph.’
turn us out of our land by means 65 They said, ‘Moses, will you
of your magic, Moses? 58 We throw down first, or shall we be
will certainly bring you magic to
match it. So appoint a time
between us and you, in an open a The creation of the earth, the
space, which neither we nor you institution of the system of rainfall,
will fail to keep.’ the growth of plants and greenery and
59 other natural phenomena that have
Moses said, ‘The day of the made the present world habitable for
encounter will be the day of the living things, are astonishingly great
festival, and let the people and wonderful manifestations.