Strengthen my back by him,

And associate him (with me) in my affair,

So that we should glorify Thee much,

And remember Thee oft.

Surely, Thou art seeing us.

He said: You are indeed granted your petition, O Musa

And certainly We bestowed on you a favor at another time;

When We revealed to your mother what was revealed;

Saying: Put him into a chest, then cast it down into the river, then the river shall throw him on the shore; there shall take him up one who is an enemy to Me and enemy to him, and I cast down upon you love from Me, and that you might be brought up before My eyes;

When your sister went and said: Shall I direct you to one who will take charge of him? So We brought you back to your mother, that her eye might be cooled and she should not grieve and you killed a man, then We delivered you from the grief, and We tried you with (a severe) trying. Then you stayed for years among the people of Madyan; then you came hither as ordained, O Musa.

And I have chosen you for Myself:

Go you and your brother with My communications and be not remiss in remembering Me;

Go both to Firon, surely he has become inordinate;

Then speak to him a gentle word haply he may mind or fear.

Both said: O our Lord! Surely we fear that he may hasten to do evil to us or that he may become inordinate.

He said: Fear not, surely I am with you both: I do hear and see.

So go you both to him and say: Surely we are two apostles of your Lord; therefore send the children of Israel with us and do not torment them! Indeed we have brought to you a communication from your Lord, and peace is on him who follows the guidance;

Surely it has been revealed to us that the chastisement will surely come upon him who rejects and turns back.

(Firon) said: And who is your Lord, O Musa?

He said: Our Lord is He Who gave to everything its creation, then guided it (to its goal).

He said: Then what is the state of the former generations?

He said: The knowledge thereof is with my Lord in a book, my Lord errs not, nor does He forget;

Who made the earth for you an expanse and made for you therein paths and sent down water from the cloud; then thereby We have brought forth many species of various herbs.

Eat and pasture your cattle; most surely there are signs in this for those endowed with understanding.

From it We created you and into it We shall send you back and from it will We raise you a second time.

And truly We showed him Our signs, all of them, but he rejected and refused.

Said he: Have you come to us that you should turn us out of our land by your magic, O Musa?

So we too will produce before you magic like it, therefore make between us and you an appointment, which we should not break, (neither) we nor you, (in) a central place.

(Musa) said: Your appointment is the day of the Festival and let the people be gathered together in the early forenoon.

So Firon turned his back and settled his plan, then came.