So they moved on until they came to the people of a town. They asked them for food, but the people refused to give them hospitality. There they found a wall ready to collapse, so the man set it right. Moses protested, “If you wanted, you could have demanded a fee for this.”
Explanation
These readings represent linguistic options and are identical in meaning; they are either both from the same root t-kh-dh (an Arab dialect meaning 'take'), or the first is form VIII from the more common ʾ-kh-dh [al-Mahdawi]. NB: in both readings, most reciters pronounce this with merged letters: la-ttakhatta/la-takhitta.