لاأُقَطِّعَنَّ أَيْدِيَكُمْ وَأَرْجُلَكُم مِّنْ خِلأَفٍ"Surely, I will cut off your hands and your feet from opposite sides."by cutting the right hand and the left leg or the opposite,ثُمَّ لاُصَلِّبَنَّكُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ"then I will crucify you all."just as he said in another Ayah,فِى جُذُوعِ النَّخْلِ"Fi the trunks of date palms." (20:71)Fi in this Ayah means "on".Ibn Abbas said that Fir`awn was the first to crucify and cut off hands and legs on opposite sides.The magicians said,قَالُواْ إِنَّا إِلَى رَبِّنَا مُنقَلِبُونَ