He said: What then is the state of the generations of old? (51)

He said: The knowledge thereof is with my Lord in a Record. My Lord neither erreth nor forgetteth, (52)

Who hath appointed the earth as a bed and hath threaded roads for you therein and hath sent down water from the sky and thereby We have brought forth divers kinds of vegetation, (53)

(Saying): Eat ye and feed your cattle. Lo! herein verily are portents for men of thought. (54)

Thereof We created you, and thereunto We return you, and thence We bring you forth a second time. (55)

And We verily did show him all Our tokens, but he denied them and refused. (56)

He said: Hast come to drive us out from our land by thy magic, O Moses? (57)

But we surely can produce for thee magic the like thereof; so appoint a tryst between us and you, which neither we nor thou shall fail to keep, at a place convenient (to us both). (58)

(Moses) said: Your tryst shall be the day of the feast, and let the people assemble when the sun hath risen high. (59)

Then Pharaoh went and gathered his strength, then came (to the appointed tryst). (60)