Before the listeners, it ceases to be a proof for them. When the magicians learned how strong the argument was that what Moses had brought, and that it was outside of what they had brought, and the veracities of what he had brought were confirmed in accordance with what they had brought, and they saw his fear, they knew that this was from God, and if it had been from Him, it would not have been feared, because He knew. What is happening, its sign among the magicians is its fear, and its sign among the people is that it catches his staff, so the magicians believed. It was said that they were eighty thousand magicians, and they knew that the greatest signs in this place were to remove these images from the eyes of the onlookers and to keep a living image of Moses’ staff in their eyes, and the situation with them was the same, so they knew that Moses was sincere in what he was calling them to, and that this is what He brought it outside of the known images and tricks in magic, for it