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But whenever good befell them, they said: This
is ours; and whenever evil smote them they ascribed it to the evil auspices of
Moses and those with him. Surely their evil auspice was only with Allah. But
most of them knew not.
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And they said: Whatever portent thou bringest
wherewith to bewitch us, we shall not put faith in thee.
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So We sent against them
the flood and the locusts and the vermin and the frogs and the blood - a
succession of clear signs. But they were arrogant and became a guilty folk.
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And when the terror fell on them they cried: O
Moses! Pray for us unto thy Lord, because He hath a covenant with thee. If thou
removest the terror from us we verily will trust thee and will let the Children
of
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But when We did remove from them the terror for
a term which they must reach, behold! they broke their covenant.
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Therefore We took retribution from them;
therefore We drowned them in the sea: because they denied Our revelations and
were heedless of them.
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And We caused the folk who were despised to
inherit the eastern parts of the land and the western parts thereof which We
had blessed. And the fair word of thy Lord was fulfilled for the Children of