They said, “Call on your Lord for us, that he would make plain to us what is her colour.”  He said, “God saith, ’She is a fawn-coloured cow; her colour is very bright; she rejoiceth the beholders.’ "

They said, “Call on they Lord for us that He would make plain to us what cow it is-for to us are cows alike,-and verily, if God please, we shall be guided rightly:” 

He said, “God saith, ’She is a cow not worn by ploughing the earth or watering the field, sound, no blemish in her.’ " They said, “Now hast thou brought the truth:”  Then they sacrificed her; Yet nearly had they done it not: 

And when ye slew a man, and strove among yourselves about him, God brought to light what he had hidden: 

For we said, “Strike the corpse with part of her.”  So God giveth life to the dead, and sheweth you his signs, that haply ye may understand.

Then after that your hearts became hard like rocks, or harder still:  for verily, from rocks have rivers gushed; others, verily, have been cleft, and water hath issued from them; and others, verily, have sunk down through fear of God:  And God is not regardless of your actions.

Desire ye then that for your sakes31 the Jews should believe?  Yet a part of them heard the word of God, and then, after they had understood it, perverted it, and knew that they did so.

And when they fall in with the faithful, they say, “We believe;” but when they are apart32 one with another, they say, “Will ye acquaint them with what God hath revealed to you, that they may dispute with you about it in the presence of your Lord?” Understand ye their aim?

Know they not that God knoweth what they hide, as well as what they bring to light?

But there are illiterates among them who are unacquainted with the Book,33 but with lies only, and have but vague fancies.  Woe to those who with their own hands transcribe the Book corruptly, and then say, “This is from God,” that they may sell it for some mean price!  Woe then to them for that which their hands have written! and, Woe to them for the gains which they have made!

And they say, “Hell fire shall not touch us, but for a few days:"34 Say:  Have ye received such a promise from God? for God will not revoke his promise:  or, Speak ye of God that which ye know not?

But they whose only gains are evil works, and who are environed by their sins,-they shall be inmates of the fire, therein to abide for ever: 

But they who have believed and done the things that be right, they shall be the inmates of Paradise,-therein to abide for ever.

And when we entered into covenant with the children of Israel, we said, “Worship none but God, and be good to your parents and kindred, and to orphans, and to the poor, and speak with men what is right, and observe prayer, and pay the stated alms.”  Then turned ye away, except a few of you, and withdrew afar off.