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may guard yourselves [against your Lord to make it clear to us
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evil].’ Yet after that you turned the exact type of heifer she should
away, and but for God’s grace be, for to us all heifers look
and mercy, you would have surely alike. If God wills, we shall
been among the losers. 65 You be rightly guided.’ 71 Moses
are aware of those who answered, ‘Your Lord says, she
transgressed in the matter of the should be a heifer which has not
Sabbath, whereupon We said to been yoked to plough the land or
them, ‘Be as apes, despised!’ water the fields, a heifer free
66 We made their fate an example from any blemish.’ ‘Now you
to their own generation and to have told us the truth,’ they
those who followed them and a answered, and they sacrificed it,
lesson to those who fear God. though they would rather not
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67 When Moses said to his have done it. Then, when you
people, ‘God commands you to [Israelites] killed someone and
sacrifice a heifer,’ they said, ‘Are started to blame one another—
you making a mockery of us?’ God brought to light what you
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He answered, ‘God forbid that I concealed— We said, ‘Strike
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should be so ignorant!’ They [the corpse] with a part of it.’
said, ‘Ask your Lord to make it Thus God restores the dead to
clear to us what sort of heifer she life and shows you His signs, so
should be.’ He answered, ‘God that you may understand.
says she should be neither too 74 Then your hearts became as
old nor too young, but in hard as rock or even harder: for,
between, so do as you are there are rocks from which
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commanded.’ They said, ‘Call streams gush forth; and, there
on your Lord for us, to show us are some that cleave asunder and
what colour she should be.’ He water flows out from them, while
answered, ‘God says she should others fall down for fear of God.
be a bright yellow heifer, pleasing God is not unaware of what you do.
to the eye.’ 70 They said, ‘Ask 75 Do you then hope that they