the people of the scripture ask you to bring down to them a book from the heaven. but they had asked of moses greater than that and said show us allah outright so the thunderbolt struck them for their wrongdoing. then they took the calf after clear evidences had come to them and we pardoned that. and we gave moses a clear 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