20:4A revelation from He who created the earth and the high heavens.

20:6To Him belongs everything in the heavens and the earth, and everything between them, and everything beneath the soil.

20:13I have chosen you, so listen to what is revealed.

20:15The Hour is coming—but I keep it almost hidden—so that each soul will be paid for what it endeavors.

20:17And what is that in your right-hand, O Moses?”

20:23That We may show you some of Our greatest signs.

20:25He said, “My Lord, put my heart at peace for me.

20:33That we may glorify You much.

20:35You are always watching over us.”

20:38When We inspired your mother with the inspiration.

20:39`Put him in the chest; then cast him into the river. The river will wash him to shore, where an enemy of Mine and an enemy of his will pick him up. And I have bestowed upon you love from Me, so that you may be reared before My eye.

20:40When your sister walked along, and said, ‘Shall I tell you about someone who will take care of him?' So We returned you to your mother, that she may be comforted, and not sorrow. And you killed a person, but We saved you from stress; and We tested you thoroughly. And you stayed years among the people of Median. Then you came back, as ordained, O Moses.

20:48It was revealed to us that the punishment falls upon him who disbelieves and turns away.'“

20:51He said, “What about the first generations?”

20:53He who made the earth a habitat for you; and traced in it routes for you; and sent down water from the sky, with which We produce pairs of diverse plants.

20:54Eat and pasture your livestock. In that are signs for those with understanding.

20:55From it We created you, and into it We will return you, and from it We will bring you out another time.

20:59He said, “Your appointment is the day of the festival, so let the people be gathered together at mid-morning.”

20:61Moses said to them, “Woe to you. Do not fabricate lies against God, or He will destroy you with a punishment. He who invents lies will fail.”

20:69Now throw down what is in your right hand—it will swallow what they have crafted. What they have crafted is only a magician’s trickery. But the magician will not succeed, no matter what he does.”

20:70And the magicians fell down prostrate. They said, “We have believed in the Lord of Aaron and Moses.”

20:71He said, “Did you believe in him before I have given you permission? He must be your chief, who has taught you magic. I will cut off your hands and your feet on alternate sides, and I will crucify you on the trunks of the palm-trees. Then you will know which of us is more severe in punishment, and more lasting.”

20:72They said, “We will not prefer you to the proofs that have come to us, and Him who created us. So issue whatever judgment you wish to issue. You can only rule in this lowly life.

20:73We have believed in our Lord, so that He may forgive us our sins, and the magic you have compelled us to practice. God is Better, and more Lasting.”

20:76The Gardens of Perpetuity, beneath which rivers flow, dwelling therein forever. That is the reward for him who purifies himself.

20:77And We inspired Moses: “Travel by night with My servants, and strike for them a dry path across the sea, not fearing being overtaken, nor worrying.”

20:81Eat of the good things We have provided for you, but do not be excessive therein, lest My wrath descends upon you. He upon whom My wrath descends has fallen.

20:83“And what made you rush ahead of your people, O Moses?”

20:84He said, “They are following in my footsteps; and I hurried on to You, my Lord, that you may be pleased.”

20:86So Moses returned to his people, angry and disappointed. He said, “O my people, did your Lord not promise you a good promise? Was the time too long for you? Or did you want wrath from your Lord to descend upon you, so you broke your promise to me?”

20:87They said, “We did not break our promise to you by our choice, but we were made to carry loads of the people’s ornaments, and we cast them in. That was what the Samarian suggested.”

20:89Did they not see that it cannot return a word to them, and has no power to harm them or benefit them?

20:92He said, “O Aaron, what prevented you, when you saw them going astray.

20:95He said, “What do you have to say, O Samarian?”

20:96He said, “I saw what they did not see, so I grasped a handful from the Messenger’s traces, and I flung it away. Thus my soul prompted me.”

20:97He said, “Begone! Your lot in this life is to say, ‘No contact.’ And you have an appointment that you will not miss. Now look at your god that you remained devoted to—we will burn it up, and then blow it away into the sea, as powder.”

20:99Thus We narrate to you reports of times gone by; and We have given you a message from Our Presence.

20:102On the Day when the Trumpet is blown—We will gather the sinners on that Day, blue.

20:104We are fully aware of what they say, when the most exemplary of them in conduct will say, “You have lingered only a day.”

20:106And leave them desolate waste.

20:107You will see in them neither crookedness, nor deviation.”

20:108On that Day, they will follow the caller, without any deviation. Voices will be hushed before the Merciful, and you will hear nothing but murmur.

20:109On that Day, intercession will not avail, except for him permitted by the Merciful, and whose words He has approved.

20:110He knows what is before them and what is behind them, and they cannot comprehend Him in their knowledge.

20:113Thus We have revealed it an Arabic Quran, and We have diversified the warnings in it, that perhaps they would become righteous, or it may produce a lesson for them.

20:114Exalted is God, the True King. Do not be hasty with the Quran before its inspiration to you is concluded, and say, “My Lord, increase me in knowledge.”

20:116And when We said to the angels, “Bow down to Adam.” They bowed down, except for Satan; he refused.

20:120But Satan whispered to him. He said, “O Adam, shall I show you the Tree of Immortality, and a kingdom that never decays?”

20:121And so they ate from it; whereupon their bodies became visible to them, and they started covering themselves with the leaves of the Garden. Thus Adam disobeyed his Lord, and fell.

20:126He will say, “Just as Our revelations came to you, and you forgot them, today you will be forgotten.”

20:127Thus We recompense him who transgresses and does not believe in the revelations of his Lord. The punishment of the Hereafter is more severe, and more lasting.

20:128Is it not instructive to them, how many generations before them We destroyed, in whose settlements they walk? Surely in that are signs for people of understanding.

20:129Were it not for a word that issued from your Lord, the inevitable would have happened, but there is an appointed term.

20:130So bear patiently what they say, and celebrate the praises of your Lord before the rising of the sun, and before its setting. And during the hours of the night glorify Him, and at the borders of the day, that you may be satisfied.

20:131And do not extend your glance towards what We have given some classes of them to enjoy—the splendor of the life of this world—that We may test them thereby. Your Lord’s provision is better, and more lasting.

20:132And exhort your people to pray, and patiently adhere to it. We ask of you no sustenance, but it is We who sustain you. The good ending is that for righteousness.

20:134Had We destroyed them with a punishment before him, they would have said, “Our Lord, if only You had sent us a messenger, we would have followed Your revelations before we were humiliated and disgraced.”

20:135Say, “Everybody is waiting, so wait. You will know who the people of the straight path are, and who is rightly-guided.