P:  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).

S:  So we too will produce before you magic like it, therefore make between us and you an appointment, which we should not break, (neither) we nor you, (in) a central place.

020.059 Y:  Moses said:  “Your tryst is the Day of the Festival, and let the people be assembled when the sun is well up.”

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

S:  (Musa) said:  Your appointment is the day of the Festival and let the people be gathered together in the early forenoon.

020.060 Y:  So Pharaoh withdrew:  He concerted his plan, and then came (back).

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

S:  So Firon turned his back and settled his plan, then came.

020.061 Y:  Moses said to him:  “Woe to you!  Forge not ye a lie against Allah, lest He destroy you (at once) utterly by chastisement:  the forger must suffer frustration!”

P:  Moses said unto them:  Woe unto you!  Invent not a lie against Allah, lest He extirpate you by some punishment.  He who lieth faileth miserably.

S:  Musa said to them:  Woe to you! do not forge a lie against Allah, lest He destroy you by a punishment, and he who forges (a lie) indeed fails to attain (his desire).

020.062 Y:  So they disputed, one with another, over their affair, but they kept their talk secret.

P:  Then they debated one with another what they must do, and they kept their counsel secret.

S:  So they disputed with one another about their affair and kept the discourse secret.

020.063 Y:  They said:  “These two are certainly (expert) magicians:  their object is to drive you out from your land with their magic, and to do away with your most cherished institutions”.

P:  They said:  Lo! these are two wizards who would drive you out from your country by their magic, and destroy your best traditions;

S:  They said:  These are most surely two magicians who wish to turn you out from your land by their magic and to take away your best traditions.

020.064 Y:  “Therefore concert your plan, and then assemble in (serried) ranks:  He wins (all along) today who gains the upper hand.”

P:  So arrange your plan, and come in battle line.  Whoso is uppermost this day will be indeed successful.

S:  Therefore settle your plan, then come standing in ranks and he will prosper indeed this day who overcomes.

020.065 Y:  They said:  “O Moses! whether wilt thou that thou throw (first) or that we be the first to throw?”

P:  They said:  O Moses!  Either throw first, or let us be the first to throw?