Pharaoh said to the sorcerers: "Did you confirm with Moses, and follow him, and acknowledge for him before I permit for you with that? Indeed Moses is surely your great one who taught you the magic; for that reason you followed him, for I will surely cut your hands and your legs from opposite, a hand from a side and a leg from the other side, and I will surely crucify you-by tying your bodies-upon the trunks of the palm trees, and you will surely know O sorcerers which of us: I or the Lord of Moses is more severe in punishment than the other, and more lasting for it?"