The Qur’an retells the stories of biblical personalities in its own style and corrects them in the process. The Qur’an virtually never actually quotes from the Bible – the only exception being the passage from Psalm 37:29 quoted in the surah 21, verse 105: “My righteous servants will inherit the earth”

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