the followers of the book ask you to bring down to them a book from heaven so indeed they demanded of musa a greater thing than that for they said show us allah manifestly so the lightning overtook them on account of their injustice. then they took the calf after clear signs had come to them but we pardoned this and we gave to musa 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