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Sura 20
Aya 67
67
فَأَوجَسَ في نَفسِهِ خيفَةً موسىٰ

Muhammad Asad

and in his heart Moses became apprehensive.1
  • Lit., "conceived fear within himself". The implication is that the feat of the sorcerers was based on mass-hallucination (cf. 7:116 - "they cast a spell upon the people's eyes"), a hallucination to which even Moses succumbed for a while.