Then Musa (Moses) cast down his staff which, (changing into a serpent,) began swallowing up those things which they had made look different (from reality) through trickery
Then Moses threw his staff, and alas, at once it devoured their apparitions!
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli
Then Moses cast down his rod, when, behold, it swallowed up that which they falsely displayed
Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim
And when Mussa cast his staff, it counter-worked their ingenious expedience and swallowed all that they cast upon the ground of fraudulent devices of a mean and deceptive kind