Sura 7 Al-A'raf (The Heights), ayah 142
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وَوَاعَدْنَا مُوسَىٰ ثَلَاثِينَ لَيْلَةً وَأَتْمَمْنَاهَا بِعَشْرٍ فَتَمَّ مِيقَاتُ رَبِّهِ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً ۚ وَقَالَ مُوسَىٰ لِأَخِيهِ هَارُونَ اخْلُفْنِي فِي قَوْمِي وَأَصْلِحْ وَلَا تَتَّبِعْ سَبِيلَ الْمُفْسِدِينَ
Translation by words
- وَوَٰعَدْنَا
- And We appointed
- مُوسَىٰ
- (for) Musa
- ثَلَٰثِينَ
- thirty
- لَيْلَةً
- nights
- وَأَتْمَمْنَٰهَا
- and We completed them
- بِعَشْرٍ
- with ten (more),
- فَتَمَّ
- so was completed
- مِيقَٰتُ
- (the) set term
- رَبِّهِۦٓ
- (of) his Lord
- أَرْبَعِينَ
- (of) forty
- لَيْلَةً
- night(s).
- وَقَالَ
- And said
- مُوسَىٰ
- Musa
- لِأَخِيهِ
- to his brother
- هَٰرُونَ
- Harun,
- ٱخْلُفْنِى
- "Take my place
- فِى
- in
- قَوْمِى
- my people,
- وَأَصْلِحْ
- and do right
- وَلَا
- and (do) not
- تَتَّبِعْ
- follow
- سَبِيلَ
- (the) way
- ٱلْمُفْسِدِينَ
- (of) the corrupters."
And We made an appointment with Moses for thirty nights and perfected them by (the addition of) ten; so the term of his Lord was completed as forty nights. And Moses said to his brother Aaron, "Take my place among my people, do right (by them), and do not follow the way of the corrupters."
7:142
Translation: Saheeh International