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The Koran Interpreted by J Arberry

THE KORAN INTERPRETED

From the Book

‘My people, you have done wrong against yourselves by your taking the Calf, now turn to ^our Creator and slay one another

That will be better for you m your Creator’s sight, and He will turn to you, truly He turns, and is All-compassionate ’

And when you said, ‘Moses, we will not believe thee till we see God openly’, and the thunderbolt took you while you were beholding Then We raised you up after you were dead, that haply you should be thankful And We outspread the cloud to overshadow you, and We sent down manna and quails upon you

 ‘Eat of the good things wherewith We have provided you

And they worked no wrong upon Us, but themselves they wronged And when We said,

‘Enter this township, and eat easefully of it wherever you will, and enter m at the gate, prostrating, and say, Unburdening,

We will forgive you your transgressions, and increase the good-doers ‘ Then the evildoers substituted a saying other than that which had been said to them, so We sent down upon the evildoers wrath out of heaven for their ungodliness And when Moses sought water for his people,