59* Moses said: "Your tryst is the Day of the Festival, and let the people be assembled when the sun is well up."  
| |60* So Pharaoh withdrew: He concerted his plan, and then came (back).  
| |61* Moses said to them: "Woe to you! Forge not ye a lie against Allah, lest He destroy you (at once) utterly by chastisement: the forger must suffer failure!"  
| |62* So they disputed, one with another, over their affair, but they kept their talk secret.  
| |63* They said: "These two are certainly (expert) magicians: their object is to drive you out from your land with their magic, and to do away with your most cherished way.  
| |64* "Therefore concert your plan, and then assemble in (serried) ranks. He wins (all along) today who gains the upper hand."  
| |65* They said: "O Moses! whether wilt thou that thou throw (first) or that we be the first to throw?"  
| |66* He said, "Nay, throw ye first!" Then behold their ropes and their rods-so it seemed to him on account of their magic - began to be in lively motion!  
| |67* So Moses conceived in his mind a (sort of) fear.  
| |68* We said: "Fear not! for thou hast indeed the upper hand:  
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