How Pharaoh threatened Moses, on whom be peace.
Pharaoh said to him, “Why didst thou, O Kalím, kill the people and cause fear to fall (on them)?
The people were put to flight and rout by thee; in the rout the folk were killed through slipping (and being crushed to death).
Necessarily, the folk have come to regard thee as their enemy; (both) men and women have conceived hatred of thee in their breasts.
Thou wert calling the people to (follow) thee, (but) it has turned out contrariwise: the folk cannot but resist thee.
I too, though I am creeping (shrinking) back from thy malice, am concocting a plan to requite thee.
Put away from thine heart the thought that thou wilt deceive me or that thou wilt get any follower but thy shadow.
Be not deluded by that which thou hast contrived: thou hast (only) cast terror into the hearts of the people.
Thou mayst bring (forward) a hundred such (devices), and thou wilt be exposed in the same way; thou wilt become despicable and the laughing-stock of the mob.
Many have been impostors like thee, (but) in our Egypt they have been brought to disgrace in the end.”
