But no sooner was the punishment withdrawn for a time to enable them to make good their promise than they broke it.
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (but when we did remove from them the terror) the punishment (for a term which they must reach) i.e. the drowning, (behold! they broke their covenant) they broke their pledge to moses.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : but when we removed, through the supplication of moses, the terror from them to a term which they should reach, lo! they were already reneging, breaking their covenant and persisting in their disbelief.
