﴿ فَتَوَلَّىٰ فِرْعَوْنُ فَجَمَعَ كَيْدَهُۥ ثُمَّ أَتَىٰ ﴾

“Thereupon Pharaoh withdrew [with his counsellors] and decided upon the scheme which he would pursue; and then he came [to the tryst].”

Then Pharaoh withdrew retreated and summoned up his guile that is to say those human elements of his guile from among the sorcerers and then came with them to the tryst.