Linguistic and Scientific
Harmonies of the Quran

And you shall no longer be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham,cAbraham Understood as “father of a multitude.” for I make you the father of a multitude of nations.

They arrived at the place of which God had told him. Abraham built an altar there; he laid out the wood; he bound his son Isaac; he laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

And [GodcGod See note at v. 4.] said, “Do not come closer! Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy ground!”

Then Moses held out his arm over the sea and GOD drove back the sea with a strong east wind all that night, and turned the sea into dry ground. The waters were split,

God spoke all these words,athese words Tradition varies as to the division of the Commandments in vv. 2–14, and as to the numbering of the verses from 2 on. Cf. note at Deut. 5.6. saying:

While Israel was staying at Shittim, the peopleathe people Or certain men among them, regarded as informally representing the people. profaned themselves by whoringbby whoring I.e., by acting faithlessly. Or “by consorting.” In contrast to others “by having sexual relations.” with the Moabite women,

When Joseph was taken down to Egypt, Potiphar, a courtier of Pharaoh and his prefect—an Egyptian—bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him there.

Pharaoh further said to Joseph, “See, I put you in charge of all the land of Egypt.”

Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; make it an ark with compartments, and cover it inside and out with pitch.

And God saw all that had been made, and found it very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

And the ETERNAL God commanded the Human, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you are free to eat;

As dawn broke, the angels urged Lot on, saying, “Up, take your wife and your two remaining daughters, lest you be swept away because of the iniquity of the city.”