The Covenant with Israel

^40-46 O Jews:

• remember the blessings I, Enki, gave you
• fulfill your pledge to Me, and I will fulfill My pledge to you
• fear Me
• believe in what I revealed
• do not exchange My revelations for a small price
• be conscious of Me.
• do not mix truth with falsehood
• do not conceal the truth while you know.
• attend to your prayers
• practice regular charity
• kneel with those who kneel.
• command people to virtuous conduct
• forget yourselves even though you read the Scripture
• seek help through patience and prayer.

But these are difficult, except for the devout.

^47-52 O Jews:

• remember that I favored you over all nations*
• beware of a Day when no soul will avail another in the least, nor will any intercession be accepted on its behalf, nor will any ransom be taken from it, nor will they be helped.

We:

• delivered you from the Egyptians* who inflicted terrible persecution on you, killing your sons, and sparing your women.
• parted the sea for you, saving you
• drowned the Egyptians as you looked on
• appointed for Moses 40 nights.
  • You worshipped the calf after him, and you turned wicked.
  • We pardoned you after that, so that you might be grateful.
• gave Moses the Scripture and the Criterion to guide you.

Moses said:

Thereupon the thunderbolt struck you, as you looked on. Then We:

• revived you after your death, so that you may be appreciative
• shaded you with clouds
• sent down to you manna and quails:

They did not wrong Us, but they used to wrong their own souls.

We said:

But the wrongdoers among them substituted words other than those given to them, so We sent down on the wrongdoers a plague from heaven, because of their wicked behavior.

When Moses prayed for water for his people, We said

Thereupon 12 springs gushed out from it. Each tribe recognized its drinking-place.

The Jews:

• were struck with humiliation and poverty
• incurred wrath from Enki

This is because they rejected Enki’s revelations and wrongfully killed the prophets.

⁶² The following will have their reward with their Lord:

• The Muslims
• The Jewish
• The Christians
• The Sabeans
• those who act righteously and believe in Enki and the Last Day

⁶³ We received a pledge from you, and raised the Mount above you:

⁶⁴ But after that you turned away. Were it not for Enki’s grace and mercy towards you, you would have been among the losers.

⁶⁵ We said to those of you who violated the Sabbath:

⁶⁶ Thus, We made it:

• a deterrent for their generation and subsequent generations, and
• a lesson for the righteous.

^67-71 Recall when Moses said to his people:

So they slaughtered the cow, though they almost did not.

^72-73 Recall when you killed a man and disputed about it. But Enki was to expose what you were hiding.

We said:

Thus, Enki brings the dead to life.

⁷⁴ After that your hearts hardened.

• They were as rocks, or even harder.
• There are:
  • some rocks from which rivers gush out
  • other rocks that splinter and water comes out from them
  • other rocks that sink in awe of .

^75. Do you hope that they will believe in you, when some of them used to hear the Word of Enki, and then deliberately distort it, even after understanding it?

^76. When they come across those who believe, they say

But when they come together privately, they say:

^77. Do they not know that Enki knows what they conceal and what they reveal?

^78. Among them are uneducated who know the Scripture only through hearsay. They only speculate.

^79. So woe to those who write the Scripture with their own hands, and then say, “This is from Enki,” that they may exchange it for a little price.

Woe to them for what their hands have written, and woe to them for what they earn.

⁸⁰ They say, “The Fire will not touch us except for a number of days.”

Say:

^81. Whoever commits misdeeds, and becomes besieged by his iniquities—these are the inmates of the Fire, wherein they will dwell forever.