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چون بدیدندش که خفتست او دراز ** بهر دزدی عصا کردند ساز
- When they (the magicians) saw that he was sleeping outstretched, they made preparations for stealing the rod.
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ساحران قصد عصا کردند زود ** کز پسش باید شدن وانگه ربود 1230
- The magicians quickly approached the rod, saying, “We must go behind him and then snatch it (from him).”
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اندکی چون پیشتر کردند ساز ** اندر آمد آن عصا در اهتزاز
- When they prepared (to approach) a little nearer, the rod began to shake.
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آنچنان بر خود بلرزید آن عصا ** کان دو بر جا خشک گشتند از وجا
- The rod quivered upon itself in such wise (that) both (magicians) on the spot became petrified by the shock (of terror).
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بعد از آن شد اژدها و حمله کرد ** هر دوان بگریختند و روی‌زرد
- After that, it turned into a dragon and made a rush (at them): both fled, and pale of countenance
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رو در افتادن گرفتند از نهیب ** غلط غلطان منهزم در هر نشیب
- Began to fall on their faces from affright, tumbling panic-stricken down every slope.
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پس یقینشان شد که هست از آسمان ** زانک می‌دیدند حد ساحران 1235
- Then to them it became certain that he (Moses) was from Heaven, since they were seeing the limit of (the power of) magicians.
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بعد از آن اطلاق و تبشان شد پدید ** کارشان تا نزع و جان کندن رسید
- Afterwards diarrhoea and fever appeared in them, and their case reached the last gasp and the death-agony.
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پس فرستادند مردی در زمان ** سوی موسی از برای عذر آن
- Then at once they sent a man to Moses to excuse that (which they had done),
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کامتحان کردیم و ما را کی رسد ** امتحان تو اگر نبود حسد
- Saying, “We have put (thee) to the test, and how should (the thought of) testing thee occur to us unless there be envy (as a motive)?