Said Pharaoh: "Believe ye in Him before I give you permission. Surely this is a trick which ye have planned in the city
to drive out its people: but soon shall ye know (the consequences).
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"Be sure I will cut off your hands and your feet on apposite sides, and I will cause you all to die on the cross."
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They said: "For us, We are but sent back unto our Lord:
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"But thou dost wreak thy vengeance on us simply because we believed in the Signs of our Lord when they reached us!
Our Lord! pour out on us patience and constancy, and take our souls unto thee as Muslims (who bow to thy will)!
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Said the chiefs of Pharaoh's people: "Wilt thou leave Moses and his people, to spread mischief in the land, and to
abandon thee and thy gods." He said: "Their male children will we slay; (only) their females will we save alive; and we
have over them (power) irresistible."
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Said Moses to his people: "Pray for help from Allah, and (wait) in patience and constancy: for the earth is Allah's, to
give as a heritage to such of His servants as He pleaseth; and the end is (best) for the righteous.
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They said: "We have had (nothing but) trouble, both before and after thou camest to us." He said: "It may be that your
Lord will destroy your enemy and make you inheritors in the earth; that so He may try you by your deeds."
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We punished the people of Pharaoh with years (of droughts) and shortness of crops; that they might receive
admonition.
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