Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)

But what is for their partners
does not reach Allah,
and what is for Allah
reaches their partners.
Evil is the judgement that they make.
137 That is how
to most of the polytheists is presented as decorous
the slaying of their children
by those whom they ascribe as partners [to Allah],
that they may ruin them
and confound their religion for them.
Had Allah wished, they would not have done it.
So leave them with what they fabricate.
138 And they say,
‘These cattle and tillage are a taboo:
none may eat them except whom we please,’
so they maintain,
and there are cattle whose backs are forbidden
and cattle over which they do not mention Allah’s Name,
fabricating a lie against Him.
Soon He will requite them
for what they used to fabricate.
139 And they say,
‘That which is in the bellies of these cattle
is exclusively for our males
and forbidden to our wives.
But if it be still-born, they will all share it.’
Soon He will requite them for their allegations.
Indeed He is all-wise, all-knowing.
140 They are certainly losers