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 Post subject: Verses 28:25-28
PostPosted: 05 Jun 2009, 06:04 
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 Post subject: Re: Verses 28:25-28
PostPosted: 16 Apr 2010, 05:08 
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{28:25} Then one of the two women came to him walking with shyness. She said, "Indeed, my father invites you that he may reward you for having watered for us." So when he came to him and related to him the story, he said, "Fear not. You have escaped from the wrongdoing people."

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{28:25} Then came to him one of them (the two women), walking shyly. She said, "My father does invite you to reward you for having watered for us." Then, when he came to him and related to him the stories, he said, "Do not fear. You have escaped from the wrongdoing folk."

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{28:26} One of the women said, "O my father, hire him. Indeed, the best one you can hire is the strong and the trustworthy."

I suggest,
{28:26} One of them said, "O my dear father, hire him. Indeed, the best one you hire is the strong, trustworthy one."

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{28:27} He said, "Indeed, I wish to wed you one of these, my two daughters, on [the condition] that you serve me for eight years; but if you complete ten, it will be [as a favor] from you. And I do not wish to put you in difficulty. You will find me, if God wills, from among the righteous."

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{25:27} He said, "I do wish to wed you one of these my two daughters, on [the condition] that you work for me for eight pilgrimages (years); but if you complete ten, it will be [as a favor] from you. And I do not wish to put you in difficulty. You will find me, if God wills, from among the righteous."

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{28:28} [Moses] said, "That is [established] between me and you. Whichever of the two terms I complete - there is no injustice to me, and God, over what we say, is Witness."

I suggest,
{28:28} [Moses] said, "That is [established] between me and you. Whichever of the two terms I complete - there shall be no aggression against me, and God, over what we say, is Trustee."

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