Alexander Ross, The Alcoran of Mahomet, translated out of Arabick into French, by the Sieur Du Ryer, Lord of Malezair, and resident for the French king, at Alexandria. And newly Englished, for the satisfaction of all that desire to look into the Turkish vanities. (1649)

and said, we believe in the Lord of the world, God of Moses and Aaron; Pharoah said to them, If ye believe in Moses without my permission, ye shall see what shall befall you; he is your Master, he understandeth magick better then you; I will cause your right feet and left hands, or your right hands and left feet to be cut off, and cause you all to be hanged; they said, this shall do us none harm, we shall return before God our Lord, we hope that he will remit our sins, because we shall be the first converts. We said unto Moses, go with the children of Israel, my servants, and fear not the people of Pharoah that shall follow thee: Pharoah sent his Commissioners through his Dominions to assemble the people, and said, (speaking of the children of Israel) those men are few in number, they have displeased me, but I will well awake them. We moved Pharoah and his people to depart out of Egypt, to pursue the children of Israel; we caused them to quit their gardens, fountains, and houses of pleasure, and made the children of Israel heirs of their treasure, they surprized them at the rising of the Sun; when the children of Israel beheld them, they said, we are overtaken: Moses answered, no, my Lord is with me, he shall guide me; then we inspired Moses to strike the sea with his rod, incontinently it divided it self on both sides, like two mountains; we saved him, and all that were with him, and drowned the men of Pharoah; which shall serve for an example to the incredulous and obstinate, thy Lord is omnipotent and merciful. Relate to unbelievers the History of Abraham, when he said to his father and his people, whom do ye adore? they answered, we adore our Idols; he said unto them, do they hear you when ye invoke them? do they good unto you when ye worship them, or mischief when ye neglect them? they answered, we finde that our fathers worshipped them as we do; Abraham said unto them, you and your fathers worship vain things, ye adore only Idols, mine enemies; I will not worship them, I will worship the Lord of the world, who created, guideth, and nourisheth me, who giveth me health when I am sick, who maketh me to live, and will cause me to die, and from whom I hope