Moses and Pharaoh

The verses

Closest to the group’s centre first.

• Yunus 10:80✦ skyread

  فَلَمَّا جَآءَ ٱلسَّحَرَةُ قَالَ لَهُم مُّوسَىٰٓ أَلْقُوا۟ مَآ أَنتُم مُّلْقُونَ

  So when the magicians came, Moses said to them, "Throw down whatever you will throw."

• Taa-Haa 20:60✦ skyread

  فَتَوَلَّىٰ فِرْعَوْنُ فَجَمَعَ كَيْدَهُۥ ثُمَّ أَتَىٰ

  So Pharaoh went away, put together his plan, and then came [to Moses].

• Ash-Shu'araa 26:43✦ skyread

  قَالَ لَهُم مُّوسَىٰٓ أَلْقُوا۟ مَآ أَنتُم مُّلْقُونَ

  Moses said to them, "Throw whatever you will throw."

• Ash-Shu'araa 26:41✦ skyread

  فَلَمَّا جَآءَ ٱلسَّحَرَةُ قَالُوا۟ لِفِرْعَوْنَ أَئِنَّ لَنَا لَأَجْرًا إِن كُنَّا نَحْنُ ٱلْغَٰلِبِينَ

  And when the magicians arrived, they said to Pharaoh, "Is there indeed for us a reward if we are the predominant?"

• Taa-Haa 20:91✦ skyread

  قَالُوا۟ لَن نَّبْرَحَ عَلَيْهِ عَٰكِفِينَ حَتَّىٰ يَرْجِعَ إِلَيْنَا مُوسَىٰ

  They said, "We will never cease being devoted to the calf until Moses returns to us."

• Taa-Haa 20:78✦ skyread

  فَأَتْبَعَهُمْ فِرْعَوْنُ بِجُنُودِهِۦ فَغَشِيَهُم مِّنَ ٱلْيَمِّ مَا غَشِيَهُمْ

  So Pharaoh pursued them with his soldiers, and there covered them from the sea that which covered them,

• Ash-Shu'araa 26:45✦ skyread

  فَأَلْقَىٰ مُوسَىٰ عَصَاهُ فَإِذَا هِىَ تَلْقَفُ مَا يَأْفِكُونَ

  Then Moses threw his staff, and at once it devoured what they falsified.

• Taa-Haa 20:17✦ skyread

  وَمَا تِلْكَ بِيَمِينِكَ يَٰمُوسَىٰ

  And what is that in your right hand, O Moses?"

• Al-A'raaf 7:122✦ skyread

  رَبِّ مُوسَىٰ وَهَٰرُونَ

  The Lord of Moses and Aaron."

• Ash-Shu'araa 26:48✦ skyread

  رَبِّ مُوسَىٰ وَهَٰرُونَ

  The Lord of Moses and Aaron."

• Al-Qasas 28:6✦ skyread

  وَنُمَكِّنَ لَهُمْ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَنُرِىَ فِرْعَوْنَ وَهَٰمَٰنَ وَجُنُودَهُمَا مِنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ يَحْذَرُونَ

  And establish them in the land and show Pharaoh and [his minister] Haman and their soldiers through them that which they had feared.

• Al-A'raaf 7:119✦ skyread

  فَغُلِبُوا۟ هُنَالِكَ وَٱنقَلَبُوا۟ صَٰغِرِينَ

  And Pharaoh and his people were overcome right there and became debased.

• Yunus 10:79✦ skyread

  وَقَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ ٱئْتُونِى بِكُلِّ سَٰحِرٍ عَلِيمٍ

  And Pharaoh said, "Bring to me every learned magician."

• Ash-Shu'araa 26:32✦ skyread

  فَأَلْقَىٰ عَصَاهُ فَإِذَا هِىَ ثُعْبَانٌ مُّبِينٌ

  So [Moses] threw his staff, and suddenly it was a serpent manifest.

• Al-A'raaf 7:107✦ skyread

  فَأَلْقَىٰ عَصَاهُ فَإِذَا هِىَ ثُعْبَانٌ مُّبِينٌ

  So Moses threw his staff, and suddenly it was a serpent, manifest.

• Al-Ghaafir 40:36✦ skyread

  وَقَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ يَٰهَٰمَٰنُ ٱبْنِ لِى صَرْحًا لَّعَلِّىٓ أَبْلُغُ ٱلْأَسْبَٰبَ

  And Pharaoh said, "O Haman, construct for me a tower that I might reach the ways -

• Ash-Shu'araa 26:17✦ skyread

  أَنْ أَرْسِلْ مَعَنَا بَنِىٓ إِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ

  [Commanded to say], "Send with us the Children of Israel."'"

• Ash-Shu'araa 26:22✦ skyread

  وَتِلْكَ نِعْمَةٌ تَمُنُّهَا عَلَىَّ أَنْ عَبَّدتَّ بَنِىٓ إِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ

  And is this a favor of which you remind me - that you have enslaved the Children of Israel?"

• Ash-Shu'araa 26:53✦ skyread

  فَأَرْسَلَ فِرْعَوْنُ فِى ٱلْمَدَآئِنِ حَٰشِرِينَ

  Then Pharaoh sent among the cities gatherers

• As-Saaffaat 37:91✦ skyread

  فَرَاغَ إِلَىٰٓ ءَالِهَتِهِمْ فَقَالَ أَلَا تَأْكُلُونَ

  Then he turned to their gods and said, "Do you not eat?

• Taa-Haa 20:88✦ skyread

  فَأَخْرَجَ لَهُمْ عِجْلًا جَسَدًا لَّهُۥ خُوَارٌ فَقَالُوا۟ هَٰذَآ إِلَٰهُكُمْ وَإِلَٰهُ مُوسَىٰ فَنَسِىَ

  And he extracted for them [the statue of] a calf which had a lowing sound, and they said, "This is your god and the god of Moses, but he forgot."

• Taa-Haa 20:69✦ skyread

  وَأَلْقِ مَا فِى يَمِينِكَ تَلْقَفْ مَا صَنَعُوٓا۟ إِنَّمَا صَنَعُوا۟ كَيْدُ سَٰحِرٍ وَلَا يُفْلِحُ ٱلسَّاحِرُ حَيْثُ أَتَىٰ

  And throw what is in your right hand; it will swallow up what they have crafted. What they have crafted is but the trick of a magician, and the magician will not succeed wherever he is."

• Taa-Haa 20:94✦ skyread

  قَالَ يَبْنَؤُمَّ لَا تَأْخُذْ بِلِحْيَتِى وَلَا بِرَأْسِىٓ إِنِّى خَشِيتُ أَن تَقُولَ فَرَّقْتَ بَيْنَ بَنِىٓ إِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ وَلَمْ تَرْقُبْ قَوْلِى

  [Aaron] said, "O son of my mother, do not seize [me] by my beard or by my head. Indeed, I feared that you would say, 'You caused division among the Children of Israel, and you did not observe [or await] my word.' "

• Al-Kahf 18:64✦ skyread

  قَالَ ذَٰلِكَ مَا كُنَّا نَبْغِ فَٱرْتَدَّا عَلَىٰٓ ءَاثَارِهِمَا قَصَصًا

  [Moses] said, "That is what we were seeking." So they returned, following their footprints.

• Taa-Haa 20:66✦ skyread

  قَالَ بَلْ أَلْقُوا۟ فَإِذَا حِبَالُهُمْ وَعِصِيُّهُمْ يُخَيَّلُ إِلَيْهِ مِن سِحْرِهِمْ أَنَّهَا تَسْعَىٰ

  He said, "Rather, you throw." And suddenly their ropes and staffs seemed to him from their magic that they were moving [like snakes].

• Taa-Haa 20:67✦ skyread

  فَأَوْجَسَ فِى نَفْسِهِۦ خِيفَةً مُّوسَىٰ

  And he sensed within himself apprehension, did Moses.

• Taa-Haa 20:59✦ skyread

  قَالَ مَوْعِدُكُمْ يَوْمُ ٱلزِّينَةِ وَأَن يُحْشَرَ ٱلنَّاسُ ضُحًى

  [Moses] said, "Your appointment is on the day of the festival when the people assemble at mid-morning."

• Taa-Haa 20:39✦ skyread

  أَنِ ٱقْذِفِيهِ فِى ٱلتَّابُوتِ فَٱقْذِفِيهِ فِى ٱلْيَمِّ فَلْيُلْقِهِ ٱلْيَمُّ بِٱلسَّاحِلِ يَأْخُذْهُ عَدُوٌّ لِّى وَعَدُوٌّ لَّهُۥ وَأَلْقَيْتُ عَلَيْكَ مَحَبَّةً مِّنِّى وَلِتُصْنَعَ عَلَىٰ عَيْنِىٓ

  [Saying], 'Cast him into the chest and cast it into the river, and the river will throw it onto the bank; there will take him an enemy to Me and an enemy to him.' And I bestowed upon you love from Me that you would be brought up under My eye.

• Ash-Shu'araa 26:38✦ skyread

  فَجُمِعَ ٱلسَّحَرَةُ لِمِيقَٰتِ يَوْمٍ مَّعْلُومٍ

  So the magicians were assembled for the appointment of a well-known day.

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