Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
[But] then Moses threw his staff - and lo! it swallowed up all their deceptions
Arthur John Arberry
Then Moses cast his staff and lo, it forthwith swallowed up their lying invention
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Then Moses threw his rod, when, behold, it straightway swallows up all the falsehoods which they fake
Arabic
فَأَلۡقَىٰ مُوسَىٰ عَصَاهُ فَإِذَا هِیَ تَلۡقَفُ مَا یَأۡفِكُونَ ٤٥
Transliteration (2021)
fa-alqā mūsā ʿaṣāhu fa-idhā hiya talqafu mā yafikūn