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7:142
Al-A'raf · Ayah 142
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Translation
And We appointed
Word Breakdown
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Grammar Rules
Past tense verb
۞ وَوَٰعَدْنَا (And We appointed) is a past tense verb — the action already happened and is complete.
We translate it in past tense — "did", "created", "said", etc.
Verb form III — mutual action
۞ وَوَٰعَدْنَا (And We appointed) uses form III (فَاعَلَ) — it describes doing something with or to each other.
The action involves two parties.
Conjunction وَ (and)
۞ وَوَٰعَدْنَا (And We appointed) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".
We add "and" to connect this to what came before.
Sahih International
And We made an appointment with Moses for thirty nights and perfected them by [the addition of] ten; so the term of his Lord was completed as forty nights. And Moses said to his brother Aaron, "Take my place among my people, do right [by them], and do not follow the way of the corrupters."
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