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

and eat thereof freely whencesoever you wish,
and enter prostrating at the gate,
and say, “Relieve [us of the burden of our sins],”¹
that We may forgive your iniquities,
and soon We will enhance the virtuous.’
59 But the wrongdoers changed the saying
with other than what they were told.
So We sent down on those who were wrongdoers
a plague from the sky
because of the transgressions they used to commit.
60 And when Moses prayed for water for his people,
We said, ‘Strike the rock with your staff.’
Thereat twelve fountains gushed forth from it;
every tribe came to know its drinking-place.
‘Eat and drink of Allah’s provision,
and do not act wickedly on the earth,
causing corruption.’
61 And when you said, ‘O Moses,
‘We will not put up with one kind of food.
So invoke your Lord for us,
that He may bring forth for us
of that which the earth grows
— its greens and its cucumbers,
its garlic, its lentils, and its onions.’
He said, ‘Do you seek to replace
what is superior with that which is inferior?
Go down to any town
and you will indeed get what you ask for!’
So they were struck with abasement and poverty,