and when you said o musa! we cannot bear with one food therefore pray lord on our behalf to bring forth for us out of what the earth grows of its herbs and its cucumbers and its garlic and its lentils and its onions. he said will you exchange that which is better for that which is worse? enter a city so you will have what you ask for. and abasement and humiliation were brought down upon them and they became deserving of allahs wrath this was so because they disbelieved in the communications of allah and killed the prophets unjustly this was so because they disobeyed and exceeded the limits.
وإذ قلتم يا موسى لن نصبر على طعام واحد فادع لنا ربك يخرج لنا مما تنبت الأرض من بقلها وقثائها وفومها وعدسها وبصلها قال أتستبدلون الذي هو أدنى بالذي هو خير اهبطوا مصرا فإن لكم ما سألتم وضربت عليهم الذلة والمسكنة وباءوا بغضب من الله ذلك بأنهم كانوا يكفرون بآيات الله ويقتلون النبيين بغير الحق ذلك بما عصوا وكانوا يعتدون