Godtowards

Then you turned away thereafter, and but for the bounty and mercy of Godtowards you, you had been of the losers.

And well you know there were those among you that transgressed the Sabbath,and We said to them, `Be you apes, miserably slinking!

And We made it a punishment exemplary for all the former times and for thelatter, and an admonition to such as are godfearing.

And when Moses said to his people, `God commands you to sacrifice a cow.'They said, `Dost thou take us in mockery?' He said, `I take refuge with God,lest I should be one of the ignorant.

`They said, `Pray to thy Lord for us, that He may make clear to us what shemay be.' He said, `He says she is a cow neither old, nor virgin, middlingbetween the two; so do that you are bidden.'

They said, `Pray to thy Lord for us, that He make clear to us what her colourmay be.' He said, `He says she shall be a golden cow, bright her colour,gladdening the beholders.

They said, `Pray to thy Lord for us, that He make clear to us what she may be;cows are much alike to us; and, if God will, we shall thenbe guided.'

He said, `He says she shall be a cow not broken to plough the earth or towater the tillage, one kept secure, with no blemish on her.' They said,`Now thou hast brought the truth'; and therefore they sacrificed her, a thingthey had scarcely done.