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Al-Baqarah 2: 48–51

exalting you above all nations.19 (48) Fear the Day when no one shall avail another, when no intercession will be accepted, when no one will be ransomed, and no criminal will receive any help.

(49) And recall when We rescued you from the slavery of Pharaoh’s people20 who had afflicted you with dreadful suffering, slaying your males and sparing your females. That was a tremendous trial for you from your Lord.

(50) And recall when We split the sea, providing passage for you, and thus saved you and caused Pharaoh’s people to drown before your very eyes.

(51) And recall when We summoned Moses for a term of forty nights,21▶

19 This does not mean that their pre-eminence among nations was to last for ever; rather, it refers to that period of human history when, of all nations, only the Children of Israel possessed that knowledge of Truth which comes from God alone. At that time they were entrusted with the task of directing the nations of the world to righteousness; they were expected to serve God and to invite the rest of the world to do the same.

20 We have rendered Al-Fir[awn as “Pharaoh’s people”. This includes the members of the Pharaonic family as well as the aristocracy of Egypt of the time.

21 When the Israelites reached the Sinai peninsula after their exodus from Egypt, God summoned Moses to Mount Sinai for forty days and nights so that the nation which had now achieved independence could be given law and morality.

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