ٱلْأَعْرَاف : ١٦٠

  • وَقَطَّعۡنَٰهُمُ And We divided them
  • ٱثۡنَتَيۡ (into) two
  • عَشۡرَةَ (and) ten [i.e. twelve]
  • أَسۡبَاطًا tribes
  • أُمَمٗاۚ (as) communities
  • وَأَوۡحَيۡنَآ And We inspired
  • إِلَىٰ to
  • مُوسَىٰٓ Musa
  • إِذِ when
  • ٱسۡتَسۡقَىٰهُ asked him for water
  • قَوۡمُهُۥٓ his people
  • أَنِ [that]
  • ٱضۡرِب Strike
  • بِّعَصَاكَ with your staff
  • ٱلۡحَجَرَۖ the stone
  • فَٱنۢبَجَسَتۡ Then gushed forth
  • مِنۡهُ from it
  • ٱثۡنَتَا two
  • عَشۡرَةَ (and) ten [i.e. twelve]
  • عَيۡنٗاۖ springs
  • قَدۡ Certainly
  • عَلِمَ knew
  • كُلُّ each
  • أُنَاسٖ people
  • مَّشۡرَبَهُمۡۚ their drinking place
  • وَظَلَّلۡنَا And We shaded
  • عَلَيۡهِمُ [on] them
  • ٱلۡغَمَٰمَ (with) the clouds
  • وَأَنزَلۡنَا and We sent down
  • عَلَيۡهِمُ upon them
  • ٱلۡمَنَّ the manna
  • وَٱلسَّلۡوَىٰۖ and the quails
  • كُلُواْ Eat
  • مِن from
  • طَيِّبَٰتِ (the) good things
  • مَا which
  • رَزَقۡنَٰكُمۡۚ We have provided you
  • وَمَا And not
  • ظَلَمُونَا they wronged Us
  • وَلَٰكِن but
  • كَانُوٓاْ they were
  • أَنفُسَهُمۡ (to) themselves
  • يَظۡلِمُونَ doing wrong
And We divided them into twelve descendant tribes1 [as distinct] nations. And We inspired to Moses when his people implored him for water, "Strike with your staff the stone," and there gushed forth from it twelve springs. Every people [i.e., tribe] knew its watering place. And We shaded them with clouds and sent down upon them manna and quails, [saying], "Eat from the good things with which We have provided you." And they wronged Us not, but they were [only] wronging themselves.
Footnotes
1 - From the twelve sons of Jacob.
And We divided them, We separated the Israelites, into twelve (ithnatay 'asharata is a circumstantial qualifier) tribes (asbaatan substitutes for this [previous circumstantial qualifier]) communities (umaman substitutes for the preceding [asbaatan, 'tribes'). And We revealed to Moses, when his people asked him for water, in the wilderness, [saying]: 'Strike the rock with your staff', and he struck it, and there gushed forth, burst forth, from it twelve fountains, equal to the number of tribes, each people, [each] tribe among them, now knew their drinking-place. And We made the cloud overshadow them, in the wilderness, from the heat of the sun, and We sent down to them manna and quails - which are [respectively, a type of citrus] turunjabeen, and the quail and We said to them: 'Eat of the good things We have provided for you.' And they did not wrong Us, but they wronged themselves.