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20:83
Taha
1 ˹Allah asked,˺ “Why have you come with such haste ahead of your people, O  Moses?”1
20:84
Taha
0 He replied, “They are close on my tracks. And I have hastened to You, my Lord, so You will be pleased.”
20:85
Taha
1 Allah responded, “We have indeed tested your people in your absence, and the Sâmiri1 has led them astray.”
20:86
Taha
2 So Moses returned to his people, furious and sorrowful. He said, “O my people! Had your Lord not made you a good promise?1 Has my absence been too long for you? Or have you wished for wrath from your Lord to befall you, so you broke your promise to me?”2 
20:87
Taha
1 They argued, “We did not break our promise to you of our own free will, but we were made to carry the burden of the people’s ˹golden˺ jewellery,1 then we threw it ˹into the fire˺, and so did the Sâmiri.”
20:88
Taha
0 Then he moulded for them an idol of a calf that made a lowing sound. They said, “This is your god and the god of Moses, but Moses forgot ˹where it was˺!”
20:89
Taha
0 Did they not see that it did not respond to them, nor could it protect or benefit them?
20:90
Taha
0 Aaron had already warned them beforehand, “O my people! You are only being tested by this, for indeed your ˹one true˺ Lord is the Most Compassionate. So follow me and obey my orders.”
20:91
Taha
0 They replied, “We will not cease to worship it until Moses returns to us.”
20:92
Taha
0 Moses scolded ˹his brother˺, “O Aaron! What prevented you, when you saw them going astray,
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