the people of the book ask thee to bring down a book to them from the heaven. but surely they asked musa a thing greater than that they said shew us god manifestly whencefore the thunderbolt overtook them for their wrongdoing. then they took a calf after there had come unto them the evidences. even so we pardoned that and we gave musa a manifest authority.
يسألك أهل الكتاب أن تنزل عليهم كتابا من السماء فقد سألوا موسى أكبر من ذلك فقالوا أرنا الله جهرة فأخذتهم الصاعقة بظلمهم ثم اتخذوا العجل من بعد ما جاءتهم البينات فعفونا عن ذلك وآتينا موسى سلطانا مبينا