the people of the book now ask of you to have a book come down on them from heaven indeed they asked of moses even greater things than this for they said make us see allah with our own eyes whereupon the thunderbolt suddenly smote them for their wickedness. then they took to worshipping the calf after clear signs had come to them. still we forgave them and conferred a manifest commandment upon moses and we raised the mount high above them and took from them a covenant and ordered them enter the gate in the state of prostration. and we said to them do not violate the law of the sabbath and took from them a firm covenant.
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 ورفعنا فوقهم الطور بميثاقهم وقلنا لهم ادخلوا الباب سجدا وقلنا لهم لا تعدوا في السبت وأخذنا منهم ميثاقا غليظا