5:70 laqad akhadhnaa miythaaqa baniy israaiyla wa arsalnaa ilayhim rusulaa* kul-lamaa jaa-ahum rasuulum bimaa laa tahwaa anfusuhum fariyqan kadh-dhabuu wa fariyqay yaqtuluun

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Ahmed Raza Khan: Mohammed Aqib Qadri:
We made a covenant with the Descendants of Israel and sent Noble Messengers towards them; whenever a Noble Messenger came to them with whatever was not according to their own desires, they denied some of them and some they slew.

Yusuf Ali:
We took the covenant of the Children of Israel and sent them messengers, every time, there came to them a messenger with what they themselves desired not - some (of these) they called impostors, and some they (go so far as to) slay.

Pickthal:
We made a covenant of old with the Children of Israel and We sent unto them messengers. As often as a messenger came unto them with that which their souls desired not (they became rebellious). Some (of them) they denied and some they slew.