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

and were oblivious to them.
137 We made the people who were abased the heirs
to the east and west of the land
which We had blessed,
and your Lord’s best word [of promise] was fulfilled
for the Children of Israel
because of their patience,
and We destroyed
what Pharaoh and his people had built
and what they used to erect.
138 We carried the Children of Israel across the sea,
whereat they came upon a people
cleaving to certain idols that they had.
They said, ‘O Moses, make for us a god
like the gods that they have.’
He said, ‘You are indeed an ignorant lot.
139 What they are engaged in is indeed bound to perish,
and what they have been doing shall come to naught.’
140 He said, ‘Shall I find you a god other than Allah,
while He has graced you
over all the nations?’
141 And when We delivered you from Pharaoh’s clan
who inflicted on you a terrible torment,
slaughtering your sons
and sparing your women,
and there was a great test in that from your Lord.

142 And We made an appointment with Moses
for thirty nights,
and completed them with ten [more];