We did send Moses aforetime, with Our Signs, to Pharaoh and his Chiefs: He said, "I am a messenger of the Lord of the Worlds." 46 But when he came to them with Our Signs, behold they ridiculed them. 47 even though each sign We showed them was greater than the previous one. We afflicted them with torment so that they might return [to the right path]. 48 And they said: O magician! call on your Lord for our sake, as He has made the covenant with you; we shall surely be the followers of the right way. 49 But when We removed from them the affliction, at once they broke their word. 50 Pharaoh called to his people, "My people, is the Kingdom of Egypt not mine? And these rivers that flow at my feet, are they not mine? Do you not see? 51 Am I better or this contemptible man who is scarcely able to express himself? 52 "And then - why have no golden armlets been bestowed on him? or why have no angels come together with him?" 53 So when he had brainwashed his people, they followed him; indeed they were a disobedient nation. 54 Then when they displeased Us, We inflicted a retribution on them, so We drowned them all together, 55 And made them a precedent and example for posterity. 56