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YUSUFALI : Then We draw (a veil) over their ears, for a number of years, in the Cave, (so that they heard not):

PICKTHAL : Then We sealed up their hearing in the Cave for a number of years.

SHAKIR : So We prevented them from hearing in the cave for a number of years.

M& HILALI : Therefore We covered up their (sense of) hearing (causing them, to go in deep sleep) in the Cave for a number of years.