batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l6440-l6654
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label: PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. /
PREFACE; lines 6440-6654
start: '6440'
end: '6654'
translation: The Koran (Al-Qur'an), Rodwell translation
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: The passage recounts Moses confronting Pharaoh, signs involving a staff-serpent
and white hand, a contest with magicians, the night departure of Moses and his
followers, the parting of the sea and drowning of Pharaoh's forces. It then gives
Abraham's speech against idols, his prayer for wisdom, forgiveness, resurrection,
and vindication on the day of reckoning. It concludes with Noah warning his people,
being rejected, and being saved with believers in a fully laden ark while the
rest are drowned.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Moses identifies his Lord as Lord of the heavens, earth, east, west, and former
generations.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Pharaoh accuses Moses of being possessed and threatens imprisonment if Moses
takes a god besides him.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Moses throws down his staff; it becomes an undoubted serpent, and he draws
out a white hand before the beholders.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: Pharaoh and his nobles interpret Moses as a cunning sorcerer who wants to
drive people from their land.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: Magicians are assembled on a solemn day and promised reward and nearness to
Pharaoh if they win.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: The magicians cast ropes and rods; Moses casts his rod, which swallows their
wonders.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: The magicians fall down in worship and declare belief in the Lord of Moses
and Aaron.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: Pharaoh threatens the believing magicians with opposite-side amputation and
crucifixion.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: The magicians answer that harm cannot ultimately affect them because they
return to their Lord and hope for forgiveness.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:10
text: Moses is ordered to go forth by night with God's servants because they will
be pursued.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:11
text: Pharaoh sends summoners through the cities and the Egyptians follow the Israelites
at sunrise.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:12
text: Moses is ordered to strike the sea with his rod; the sea divides, and each
part is described as like a huge mountain.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:13
text: Moses and those with him are saved, while the pursuing others are drowned.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:14
text: Abraham asks his father and people what they worship, and they answer that
they worship idols as their fathers did.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: obs:15
text: Abraham says the idols cannot hear, help, or harm, and contrasts them with
the Lord who creates, guides, feeds, heals, causes death, quickens, and forgives.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: obs:16
text: Abraham prays for wisdom, a good name among posterity, inclusion among the
heirs of the garden of delight, forgiveness for his father, and freedom from shame
on the day mankind is raised.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: obs:17
text: The day of reckoning is described as a time when wealth and children do not
avail, except for one who comes to God with a sound heart.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- id: obs:18
text: Paradise is brought near to the pious, Hell is laid open to the astray, and
worshippers and their seducers are cast into it with the host of Eblis.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- id: obs:19
text: Noah identifies himself as a faithful apostle, asks no reward except from
the Lord, and calls his people to fear God and obey him.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
- id: obs:20
text: Noah's people object that the meanest are his followers and threaten him with
stoning unless he desists.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:20
- id: obs:21
text: Noah asks God to decide between him and his people and to rescue him and the
faithful with him.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:21
- id: obs:22
text: Noah and those with him are saved in the fully laden ark, and the rest are
drowned.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:22
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Moses
description: Speaker to Pharaoh; bearer of the staff and rod; leader of those saved
at the sea.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:12
- ev:13
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Pharaoh
description: Ruler addressed by Moses; threatens imprisonment and later punishment;
sends summoners and pursues through his forces.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:8
- ev:11
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Aaron
description: Named with Moses when the magicians declare belief in the Lord of Moses
and Aaron.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Pharaoh's nobles
description: People around Pharaoh who hear his judgment that Moses is a cunning
sorcerer.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Magicians
description: Cunning magicians gathered to compete with Moses; later they worship
and profess belief.
role_refs:
- role:5
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:9
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Moses' followers / servants / children of Israel
description: Group ordered to depart by night with Moses and saved with him after
the sea is divided.
role_refs:
- role:7
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:13
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Egyptians / pursuing others
description: Those who follow at sunrise and are drowned after Moses and his group
are saved.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:13
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: The Lord / God / Lord of the Worlds
description: Named as Lord of the heavens, earth, east, west, Moses and Aaron; Abraham
describes him as creator, guide, provider, healer, giver of death and life, forgiver,
and judge.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:7
- ev:15
- ev:17
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Abraham
description: Speaker who questions idol worship, describes the Lord's acts, and
prays for wisdom and vindication.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:16
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Abraham's father and people
description: Those questioned by Abraham about worship; they say they worship idols
as their fathers did.
role_refs:
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Idols / worshipped beings beside God
description: Objects of devotion said by Abraham not to hear, help, or harm.
role_refs:
- role:13
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: The pious
description: Those for whom Paradise is brought near in the day-of-reckoning description.
role_refs:
- role:14
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- id: fig:13
name_or_label: Those gone astray / seducers and seduced
description: Those for whom Hell is laid open and who are cast into it.
role_refs:
- role:15
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- id: fig:14
name_or_label: Host of Eblis
description: Group included among those cast into Hell.
role_refs:
- role:15
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- id: fig:15
name_or_label: Noah
description: Faithful apostle who warns his people, is threatened, prays for decision
and rescue, and is saved in the ark.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
- ev:20
- ev:21
- ev:22
- id: fig:16
name_or_label: Noah's people
description: People who gainsay the apostles, reject Noah's followers, threaten
Noah, and are later among the drowned rest.
role_refs:
- role:12
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
- ev:20
- ev:22
- id: fig:17
name_or_label: Faithful with Noah
description: Believers whom Noah asks to be rescued with him and who are saved in
the ark.
role_refs:
- role:7
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:21
- ev:22
roles:
- id: role:1
label: apostolic warner or messenger
assigned_to:
- fig:1
- fig:9
- fig:15
basis: Moses is called an apostle by Pharaoh, Noah calls himself a faithful apostle,
and Abraham's story is recited as a warning narrative.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:14
- ev:19
- id: role:2
label: opposing ruler
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Pharaoh threatens Moses, organizes opposition, and punishes belief without
his leave.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:8
- ev:11
- id: role:3
label: named companion of Moses
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Aaron is named alongside Moses in the magicians' confession of faith.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:4
label: royal advisers or audience
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The nobles are around Pharaoh when he calls Moses a sorcerer and asks for
suggestions.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:5
label: ritual competitors
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: They are mustered for a public contest and cast ropes and rods against Moses.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:6
label: leader of saved group
assigned_to:
- fig:1
- fig:15
basis: Moses and Noah are each saved with followers or faithful companions.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:22
- id: role:7
label: believers
assigned_to:
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:17
basis: The magicians profess belief; Moses' group are God's servants; Noah's companions
are called faithful.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:10
- ev:21
- id: role:8
label: rescued community
assigned_to:
- fig:6
- fig:17
basis: Moses' companions and Noah's faithful are explicitly saved.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:22
- id: role:9
label: drowned opponents
assigned_to:
- fig:7
- fig:16
basis: The pursuing others in Moses' account and the rest after Noah's rescue are
drowned.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:22
- id: role:10
label: divine judge and helper
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The Lord guides, forgives, raises mankind, saves believers, and drowns opponents.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
- ev:16
- ev:17
- ev:22
- id: role:11
label: petitioner for wisdom and afterlife vindication
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Abraham prays for wisdom, a good name, inheritance of the garden, forgiveness,
and no shame at resurrection.
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: role:12
label: rejecting people
assigned_to:
- fig:10
- fig:16
basis: Abraham's people maintain inherited idol worship; Noah's people reject and
threaten him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:20
- id: role:13
label: false objects of worship
assigned_to:
- fig:11
basis: Idols are worshipped but described as unable to hear, help, or harm.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- id: role:14
label: righteous recipients of Paradise
assigned_to:
- fig:12
basis: Paradise is said to be brought near to the pious.
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- id: role:15
label: condemned in Hell
assigned_to:
- fig:13
- fig:14
basis: Those gone astray, seducers, seduced, and the host of Eblis are cast into
Hell.
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: staff or rod
literal_form: Moses' staff or rod thrown down and later used to strike the sea
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:6
- ev:12
- id: sym:2
label: serpent
literal_form: An undoubted serpent appearing when Moses throws down his staff
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- serpent
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: white hand
literal_form: Moses' hand drawn out white before the beholders
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:4
label: ropes and rods
literal_form: Objects cast down by Pharaoh's magicians
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:5
label: sea divided by rod
literal_form: The sea struck by Moses' rod and cloven asunder
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:6
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
- id: sym:6
label: mountain-like walls of water
literal_form: Each divided part of the sea becomes like a huge mountain
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- mountain
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: sym:7
label: gardens, fountains, treasures, and dwellings
literal_form: Possessions and places quitted by Pharaoh's people and given to the
children of Israel as heritage
associated_figures:
- fig:6
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: sym:8
label: idols
literal_form: Objects worshipped by Abraham's father and people
associated_figures:
- fig:10
- fig:11
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- id: sym:9
label: garden of delight / Paradise
literal_form: The garden Abraham asks to inherit; Paradise brought near to the pious
associated_figures:
- fig:9
- fig:12
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- ev:18
- id: sym:10
label: Hell
literal_form: Hell laid open for the astray, into which seducers, seduced, and Eblis's
host are cast
associated_figures:
- fig:13
- fig:14
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- id: sym:11
label: sound heart
literal_form: A sound heart brought to God on the day when wealth and children do
not avail
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- id: sym:12
label: fully laden ark
literal_form: Ark in which Noah and those with him are saved
associated_figures:
- fig:15
- fig:17
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:22
- id: sym:13
label: drowning waters
literal_form: Waters by which Pharaoh's pursuing group and Noah's rejecting people
are drowned
associated_figures:
- fig:7
- fig:16
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:22
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Moses and Pharaoh debate divine lordship
summary: Moses identifies the Lord over the cosmos and ancestors; Pharaoh mocks
him as possessed and threatens imprisonment.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:8
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Signs before Pharaoh
summary: Moses offers proof, throws down his staff so that it becomes a serpent,
and shows a white hand; Pharaoh and nobles label him a sorcerer.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:3
label: Contest with the magicians
summary: Magicians gather, cast ropes and rods, and invoke Pharaoh's might; Moses'
rod swallows their wonders, and the magicians worship and profess belief.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:5
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: scene:4
label: Threat and confession of return to the Lord
summary: Pharaoh threatens the believing magicians with mutilation and crucifixion;
they answer that they will return to their Lord and hope for forgiveness.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:5
- fig:8
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: scene:5
label: Night departure and pursuit
summary: Moses is ordered to depart by night with God's servants, while Pharaoh
summons forces and the Egyptians pursue at sunrise.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: scene:6
label: Parting of the sea and drowning of pursuers
summary: Moses strikes the sea with his rod; it divides into mountain-like parts,
Moses and his companions are saved, and the others are drowned.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:5
- sym:6
- sym:13
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
- id: scene:7
label: Abraham rejects inherited idol worship
summary: Abraham questions his father and people about idols, challenges the idols'
power, and contrasts them with the Lord who creates, guides, heals, gives death
and life, and forgives.
figure_refs:
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
- fig:11
symbol_refs:
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- id: scene:8
label: Abraham's prayer and judgment vision
summary: Abraham prays for wisdom, posterity, the garden of delight, forgiveness,
and no shame at resurrection; the passage describes judgment, Paradise for the
pious, and Hell for those astray.
figure_refs:
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:12
- fig:13
- fig:14
symbol_refs:
- sym:9
- sym:10
- sym:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- ev:17
- ev:18
- id: scene:9
label: Noah warns and is rejected
summary: Noah calls his people to fear God and obey; they object to his low-status
followers and threaten stoning.
figure_refs:
- fig:15
- fig:16
- fig:17
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
- ev:20
- id: scene:10
label: Noah saved in the ark and the rest drowned
summary: Noah asks for divine decision and rescue; he and the faithful are saved
in the fully laden ark, and the rest are drowned.
figure_refs:
- fig:8
- fig:15
- fig:16
- fig:17
symbol_refs:
- sym:12
- sym:13
evidence_refs:
- ev:21
- ev:22
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: serpent sign from a staff
taxonomy_refs:
- serpent
basis: Moses' staff becomes a serpent as proof of his mission before Pharaoh.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: high
cautions: The passage treats the serpent as a sign; it does not elaborate an independent
serpent myth.
- id: motif:2
label: miraculous contest between prophet and magicians
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Magicians publicly cast ropes and rods, but Moses' rod swallows their wonders
and the magicians convert.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: No available taxonomy ref precisely names the contest motif.
- id: motif:3
label: departure of the faithful under pursuit
taxonomy_refs:
- departure
basis: Moses is ordered to depart by night with God's servants because they will
be pursued; the Egyptians follow at sunrise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
confidence: high
cautions: The passage emphasizes command, pursuit, and rescue more than a voluntary
quest departure.
- id: motif:4
label: waters divided for rescue and judgment
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The sea divides after Moses strikes it, enabling Moses' group to be saved
and the pursuing others to be drowned.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
confidence: high
cautions: The available symbol taxonomy includes water, but the motif-family assignment
is primarily judgment rather than a named sea-crossing category.
- id: motif:5
label: afterlife reckoning with Paradise and Hell
taxonomy_refs:
- afterlife_journey_map
- divine_judgment
- resurrection
basis: Abraham speaks of the day of reckoning and the day mankind is raised; Paradise
is brought near to the pious and Hell opened for the astray.
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- ev:17
- ev:18
confidence: high
cautions: The passage presents judgment scenes, not a step-by-step journey through
the afterlife.
- id: motif:6
label: petition for wisdom and righteous posterity
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: Abraham asks for wisdom, to be joined to the just, and for a good name among
posterity.
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
confidence: high
cautions: This is a prayer motif rather than a narrative quest for wisdom.
- id: motif:7
label: ark rescue amid drowning judgment
taxonomy_refs:
- ark_vessel
- flood_and_renewal
- divine_judgment
basis: Noah and those with him are saved in a fully laden ark, while the rest are
drowned.
evidence_refs:
- ev:22
confidence: high
cautions: The excerpt states drowning and ark rescue but does not describe rainfall,
flood duration, or renewal after the flood.
- id: motif:8
label: rejected apostle rescued with faithful followers
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Noah is rejected and threatened by his people, asks for rescue, and is saved
with the faithful while the rest are drowned.
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
- ev:20
- ev:21
- ev:22
confidence: high
cautions: The passage also applies similar apostolic opposition themes to Moses,
but details differ.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: Within the passage, the Moses and Noah episodes share a narrative function
in which a divine messenger and believers are rescued while opponents are drowned.
claim_level: same_function
target: Rescue of faithful and drowning of opponents in Moses and Noah episodes
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:22
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: 'The mechanisms differ: Moses'' rescue involves a divided sea and pursuit,
while Noah''s rescue involves an ark.'
- id: claim:2
claim: Within the passage, Abraham's judgment speech and the magicians' confession
both use return to the Lord as a frame for death, forgiveness, and final accountability.
claim_level: same_function
target: Return to God and final accountability pattern
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:16
- ev:17
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The magicians speak from immediate persecution, while Abraham's speech
gives a broader eschatological description.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 6440-6450
quote_or_summary: Moses says the Lord is Lord of the heavens, earth, ancestors,
east, and west.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 6443-6452
quote_or_summary: Pharaoh asks those around him to listen, calls Moses possessed,
and threatens warding if he takes another god.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: quote
locator: lines 6456-6460
quote_or_summary: Moses throws down his staff, which becomes "an undoubted serpent,"
and draws out his hand white to the beholders.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quote used.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 6461-6465
quote_or_summary: Pharaoh tells his nobles Moses is a cunning sorcerer who wants
to drive them from their land by sorcery.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 6466-6478
quote_or_summary: The nobles advise delaying Moses and his brother and summoning
magicians; the magicians gather on a solemn day and ask Pharaoh about reward.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 6481-6487
quote_or_summary: Moses tells the magicians to throw; they cast ropes and rods,
and Moses' rod swallows their cheating wonders.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: quote
locator: lines 6488-6493
quote_or_summary: The magicians fall in worship and say, "We believe on the Lord
of the Worlds, The Lord of Moses and of Aaron."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quote used.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 6494-6499
quote_or_summary: Pharaoh accuses the magicians of believing before receiving permission
and threatens opposite-side amputation and crucifixion.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 6500-6505
quote_or_summary: The magicians say harm cannot affect them because they return
to their Lord and hope for forgiveness as first believers.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: quote
locator: lines 6506-6507
quote_or_summary: God orders Moses, "Go forth by night with my servants, for ye
will be pursued."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quote used.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: lines 6508-6520
quote_or_summary: Pharaoh sends summoners, describes the Israelites as a scanty
band, and the Egyptians leave gardens, fountains, treasures, and dwellings; at
sunrise they follow.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:12
type: quote
locator: lines 6524-6527
quote_or_summary: Moses is told to strike the sea with his rod; it cleaves asunder
and each part becomes "like a huge mountain."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quote used.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: lines 6528-6535
quote_or_summary: God draws the others on, saves Moses and all with him, and drowns
the others; the event is called a sign.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:14
type: summary
locator: lines 6538-6549
quote_or_summary: Abraham asks his father and people what they worship; they say
they worship idols and follow their fathers' practice.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:15
type: summary
locator: lines 6550-6562
quote_or_summary: Abraham says the worshipped beings are foes, unlike the Lord who
creates, guides, feeds, heals, causes death, quickens, and forgives.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:16
type: summary
locator: lines 6563-6573
quote_or_summary: Abraham prays for wisdom, justice, a good name among posterity,
inheritance of the garden, forgiveness for his father, and no shame when mankind
is raised.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:17
type: quote
locator: lines 6574-6577
quote_or_summary: On the day of raising, neither wealth nor children avail, "Save
to him who shall come to God with a sound heart."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quote used.
- id: ev:18
type: summary
locator: lines 6578-6596
quote_or_summary: Paradise is brought near to the pious; Hell is laid open for the
astray; worshipped beings, seducers, seduced, and Eblis's host are cast into it
and lament their error.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:19
type: summary
locator: lines 6602-6612
quote_or_summary: Noah's people gainsay the apostles; Noah calls himself a faithful
apostle, asks no reward except from the Lord, and tells them to fear God and obey
him.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:20
type: summary
locator: lines 6613-6628
quote_or_summary: Noah's people question believing him when only the meanest follow
and threaten that he will be among the stoned unless he desists.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:21
type: summary
locator: lines 6629-6633
quote_or_summary: Noah says his people treat him as a liar and asks the Lord to
decide between them and rescue him and the faithful with him.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:22
type: quote
locator: lines 6634-6637
quote_or_summary: God saves Noah and those with him "in the fully-laden ark," and
afterwards drowns the rest.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quote used.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: high
comparison_claims: medium
notes: The passage is narratively clear and contains explicit signs, rescue, judgment,
ark, and afterlife imagery. Comparison claims are limited to patterns visible
within this excerpt.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
All taxonomy references are limited to the provided available taxonomy lists; no external comparisons were added.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg__l6440-l6654
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