Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
and when We appointed for Moses forty nights [on Mount Sinai], and in his absence you took to worshipping the [golden] calf, and thus became evildoers
Arthur John Arberry
And when We appointed with Moses forty nights then you took to yourselves the Calf after him and you were evildoers
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
And remember We appointed forty nights for Moses, and in his absence ye took the calf (for worship), and ye did grievous wrong
Arabic
وَإِذۡ وَ ٰعَدۡنَا مُوسَىٰۤ أَرۡبَعِینَ لَیۡلَةࣰ ثُمَّ ٱتَّخَذۡتُمُ ٱلۡعِجۡلَ مِنۢ بَعۡدِهِۦ وَأَنتُمۡ ظَـٰلِمُونَ ٥١
Transliteration (2021)
wa-idh wāʿadnā mūsā arbaʿīna laylatan thumma ittakhadhtumu l-ʿij'la min baʿdihi wa-antum ẓālimūn