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Surah 7. Al-A'raf, Ayah 117

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وَأَوْحَيْنَآ إِلَىٰ مُوسَىٰٓ أَنْ أَلْقِ عَصَاكَ ۖ فَإِذَا هِىَ تَلْقَفُ مَا يَأْفِكُونَ

Waaw h ayn a il a moos a an alqi AAa sa ka fai tha hiya talqafu m a yafikoon a

And [then] We inspired Moses, "Throw down thy staff!" - and lo! it swallowed up all their deceptions:⁸⁹

- Mohammad Asad

We inspired Musa to cast his staff. No sooner did he cast his staff than it became a serpent and began to swallow up the creation of their sorcery!

- Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik

Then We inspired Moses, 'Throw down your staff,' and- behold!- it devoured the objects of their illusion!

- Mustafa Khattab

And We inspired Moses (saying): Throw thy staff! And lo! it swallowed up their lying show.

- Marmaduke Pickthall

We put it into Moses's mind by inspiration: "throw (now) thy rod": and behold! it swallows up straightway all the falsehoods which they fake!

- Abdullah Yusuf Ali