The people of the Book ask you to bring down to them a book from the heaven. They had asked Moses for even more than that, for they said: "Show us God openly!" So the lightning strike took them for their wickedness. Then they took the calf after the clarity had come to them, and We pardoned them for this; We gave Moses a clear authority.
يسءلك أهل الكتب أن تنزل عليهم كتبا من السماء فقد سألوا موسى أكبر من ذلك فقالوا أرنا الله جهرة فأخذتهم الصعقة بظلمهم ثم اتخذوا العجل من بعد ما جاءتهم البينت فعفونا عن ذلك وءاتينا موسى سلطنا مبينا