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جهد فرعونی چو بی توفیق بود ** هرچه او می‌دوخت آن تفتیق بود 840
- Inasmuch as Pharaoh's toil was unblest (by God), whatsoever he would stitch, that (stitching) was (in effect an act of) ripping asunder.
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از منجم بود در حکمش هزار ** وز معبر نیز و ساحر بی‌شمار
- He had a thousand astrologers at his beck, and also a countless multitude of dream-interpreters and magicians.
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مقدم موسی نمودندش بخواب ** که کند فرعون و ملکش را خراب
- There was shown to him in a dream the coming of Moses, who would destroy Pharaoh and his kingdom.
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با معبر گفت و با اهل نجوم ** چون بود دفع خیال و خواب شوم
- He said to the interpreters and astrologers, “How may (the fulfilment of) the ill-boding phantasm and dream be warded off?”
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جمله گفتندش که تدبیری کنیم ** راه زادن را چو ره‌زن می‌زنیم
- They all said to him, “We will contrive something, we will waylay the birth (of Moses), like brigands.”
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تا رسید آن شب که مولد بود آن ** رای این دیدند آن فرعونیان 845
- (They waited) till the night arrived on which the begetting (of Moses) took place; those Pharaoh's men deemed it advisable,
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که برون آرند آن روز از پگاه ** سوی میدان بزم و تخت پادشاه
- Early on that day, to bring forth the King's banquet and throne towards the maydán (public arena outside of the city),
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الصلا ای جمله اسرائیلیان ** شاه می‌خواند شما را زان مکان
- (Proclaiming), “Welcome, O all ye Israelites! The King calls you from that place (where ye are),
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تا شما را رو نماید بی نقاب ** بر شما احسان کند بهر ثواب
- That he may show unto you his face unveiled, and do kindness unto you for the sake of the (Divine) recompense”;
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کان اسیران را بجز دوری نبود ** دیدن فرعون دستوری نبود
- For to those captives there was naught but farness (from Pharaoh's presence): the sight of Pharaoh was not permitted (to them).