Surah An-Nisa
يَسْـَٔلُكَ أَهْلُ ٱلْكِتَـٰبِ أَن تُنَزِّلَ عَلَيْهِمْ كِتَـٰبًا مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ ۚ فَقَدْ سَأَلُوا۟ مُوسَىٰٓ أَكْبَرَ مِن ذَٰلِكَ فَقَالُوٓا۟ أَرِنَا ٱللَّهَ جَهْرَةً فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ ٱلصَّـٰعِقَةُ بِظُلْمِهِمْ ۚ ثُمَّ ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ ٱلْعِجْلَ مِنۢ بَعْدِ مَا جَآءَتْهُمُ ٱلْبَيِّنَـٰتُ فَعَفَوْنَا عَن ذَٰلِكَ ۚ وَءَاتَيْنَا مُوسَىٰ سُلْطَـٰنًا مُّبِينًا
Yas'aluka ahlul-kitābi an tunazzila ‘alaihim kitābam minas-samā'i faqad sa'alū mūsā akbara min żālika fa qālū arinallāha jahratan fa akhażathumuṣ-ṣā‘iqatu bi ẓulmihim, ṡummattakhażul-‘ijla mim ba‘di mā jā'athumul-bayyinātu fa ‘afaunā ‘an żālik(a), wa ātainā mūsā sulṭānam mubīnā(n).
The People of the Scripture ask you to bring down to them a book from the heaven. But they had asked of Moses [even] greater than that and said, "Show us Allah outright," so the thunderbolt struck them for their wrongdoing. Then they took the calf [for worship] after clear evidences had come to them, and We pardoned that. And We gave Moses a clear authority.
📝 Footnotes
180) The People of the Book referred to in this verse are the Jews. 181) They fashioned the calf statue out of gold to be worshipped.