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پس عوانان بی مراد آن سو شدند ** باز غمازان کز آن واقف بدند
- Then the officers went away without having attained their object, (but) again the informers, who were aware of it,
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با عوانان ماجرا بر داشتند ** پیش فرعون از برای دانگ چند
- Raised an altercation with the officers before Pharaoh for the sake of (earning) some petty coins,
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کای عوانان باز گردید آن طرف ** نیک نیکو بنگرید اندر غرف
- Saying, “O officers, go back thither, and look very carefully in the upper rooms.”
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وحی آمدن به مادر موسی کی موسی را در آب افکن
- How it was divinely revealed to the mother of Moses that she should throw Moses into the water.
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باز وحی آمد که در آبش فکن ** روی در اومید دار و مو مکن
- Once more the revelation came: “Throw him into the water; keep thy face in hope and do not tear thy hair.
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در فکن در نیلش و کن اعتماد ** من ترا با وی رسانم رو سپید 960
- Throw him into the Nile and put trust (in Me): I will bring thee to him happily.”
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این سخن پایان ندارد مکرهاش ** جمله می‌پیچید هم در ساق و پاش
- This discourse hath no end. All his (Pharaoh's) plots (only) entangled his (own) legs and feet.
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صد هزاران طفل می‌کشت او برون ** موسی اندر صدر خانه در درون
- He was killing hundreds of thousands of children outside, (whilst) Moses (remained) indoors in the upper part of the house.
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از جنون می‌کشت هر جا بد جنین ** از حیل آن کورچشم دوربین
- Wherever were embryos (new-born children), in his frenzy that far-seeing blind man was killing them by cunning devices.
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اژدها بد مکر فرعون عنود ** مکر شاهان جهان را خورده بود
- The craft of the iniquitous Pharaoh was a dragon: it had devoured the craft of the kings of the world;
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لیک ازو فرعون‌تر آمد پدید ** هم ورا هم مکر او را در کشید 965
- But one that was a greater Pharaoh than it came into sight and swallowed both him and his craft.