الْاَعْرَافِ

Surah Al-A'raf, ayah 142

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7:142

وَوٰعَدْنَا مُوسٰى ثَلٰثٖینَ لَیْلَةً وَاَتْمَمْنَاهَا بِعَشْرٍ فَتَمَّ مٖیقَاتُ رَبِّهٖٓ اَرْبَعٖینَ لَیْلَةًۚ وَقَالَ مُوسٰى لِاَخٖیهِ هٰرُونَ اخْلُفْنٖی فٖی قَوْمٖی وَاَصْلِحْ وَلَا تَتَّبِـعْ سَبٖیلَ الْمُفْسِدٖینَ

WawaAAadna moosa thalatheena laylatan waatmamnaha biAAashrin fatamma meeqatu rabbihi arbaAAeena laylatan waqala moosa liakheehi haroona okhlufnee fee qawmee waaslih wala tattabiAA sabeela almufsideena

Translations

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

Saheeh International

And when We did appoint for Moses thirty nights (of solitude), and added to them ten, and he completed the whole time appointed by his Lord of forty nights; and Moses said unto his brother, Aaron: Take my place among the people. Do right, and follow not the way of mischief-makers

Marmaduke Pickthall