فَبَدَّلَ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا قَوْلًا غَيْرَ الَّذِي قِيلَ لَهُمْ فَأَنزَلْنَا عَلَى الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا رِجْزًا مِّنَ السَّمَاءِ بِمَا كَانُوا يَفْسُقُونَ
Fabaddalal lazeena zalamoo qawlan ghayral lazee qeela lahum fa anzalnaa 'alal lazeena zalamoo rijzam minas samaaa'i bimaa kaanoo yafsuqoon
But the wrongdoers substituted a different word for the one they had been given, so we sent down on the wrongdoers a scourge from the sky for the defiance they persisted in.
The text withholds the substituted word. It says only that a different one was put in place of what was given, and the well-known report that they said hinta, grain, for ḥiṭṭa comes from commentary rather than from the verse. Rijz names what followed, a word used elsewhere for plague and filth alike, and the reason given is persistence rather than the error itself.