M. H. Shakir, The Holy Quran; Arabic Text and English Translation; Foot-notes by M. H. Shakir (1974)

54. Eat and pasture your cattle; most surely there are signs in this for those endowed with understanding.

55. From it We created you and into it We shall send you back and from it will We raise you a second time.

56. And truly We showed him Our signs, all of them, but he rejected and refused.

57. Said he: Have you come to us that you should turn us out of our land by your magic, O Musa?

58. So we too will produce before you magic like it, therefore make between us and you an appointment, which we should not break, (neither) we nor you, (in) a central place.

59. (Musa) said: Your appointment is the day of the Festival and let the people be gathered together in the early forenoon.

60. So Firon turned his back and settled his plan, then came.

61. Musa said to them: Woe to you! do not forge a lie against Allah, lest Fie destroy you by a punishment, and he who forges (a lie) indeed fails to attain (his desire).

62. So they disputed with one another about their a flair and kept the discourse secret.

63. They said: These are most surely two magicians who wish to turn you out from your land