Faalqa moosa AAasahu faitha hiya talqafu ma yafikoona
English
Ahmed Ali
Then Moses threw down his staff, and lo, it swallowed up their conjurations.
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (then moses threw his staff and lo! it swallowed that which they did falsely show) of wizardry.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : thereat moses cast his staff and lo! it was swallowing (talqafu: one of the original two tā’ letters [of taltaqifu] has been assimilated) what they had faked, [what they had] transformed through illusion, making their ropes and staffs appear to be moving serpents.