arm-pit, _and take it forth_: it shall come forth white, without evil, (_that is, without leprosy; shining like the rays of the sun, dazzling the sight,_) as another sign, that We may show thee the greatest of our signs _of thine apostleship_. (_And when he desired to restore his hand to its first state, he put it as before described, and drew it forth._) Go _as an apostle_ unto Pharaoh _and those who are with him_; for he hath acted with exceeding impiety _by arrogating to himself divinity_.—_Moses_ said, O my Lord, dilate my bosom, _that it may hear the message_, and make my affair easy unto me, and loose the knot of my tongue (_this had arisen from his having been burned in his mouth by a live coal when he was a child_),[268] that they may understand my speech _when I deliver the message_. And appoint unto me a Wezeer of my family, _namely_ Aaron [Hároon] my brother. Strengthen my back by him, and make him a colleague in my affair, that we may glorify Thee much, and remember Thee much; for Thou knowest us. God replied, Thou hast obtained thy petition, O Moses, and We have been gracious unto thee another time: forasmuch as We revealed unto thy mother what was revealed, _when she gave birth to thee and feared that Pharaoh would kill thee among the others that were born_, [saying,] Cast him into the ark, and then cast him, _in the ark_, into the river _Nile_, and the river shall throw him on the shore; then an enemy unto Me and an enemy unto him (_namely Pharaoh_) shall take him. And I bestowed on thee, _after he had taken thee_, love from Me, _that thou mightest be loved by men, so that Pharaoh and all that saw thee loved thee_; and that thou mightest be bred up in Mine eye. [Also] forasmuch as thy sister _Maryam_ went _that she might learn what became of thee, after they had brought nurses and thou hadst refused to take the breast of any one of them_, and she said, Shall I direct you unto one who will nurse him? (_whereupon her proposal was_ _accepted, and she brought his mother_): so We restored thee to thy mother, that her eye might become cheerful and that she might not grieve. And thou slewest a soul, _namely the Copt in Egypt, and wast sorry for his slaughter, on account of Pharaoh_, and We delivered thee from sorrow; and We tried thee with _other_ trial, _and delivered thee from it_.[269] And thou stayedst _ten_ years among the people of Medyen, _after thou hadst come thither from Egypt, at the abode of Sho´eyb the prophet, and he married thee to his daughter._ Then thou camest according to _My_ decree, _as to the time of thy mission, when thou hadst attained the age of forty years_, O Moses; and I have chosen thee for Myself. Go thou and thy brother[270] _unto the people_, with My _nine_ signs, and cease ye not to remember Me. Go ye unto Pharaoh; for he hath acted with exceeding impiety, _by arrogating to himself divinity_, and speak unto him with gentle speech, _exhorting him to relinquish that conduct_: peradventure he will