By those (angels) ranged in ranks (or rows).

So the angels prostrated themselves, all of them:

This Our Record speaks about you with truth. Verily, We were recording what you used to do (i.e. Our angels used to record your deeds).

(Remember!) that the two receivers (recording angels) receive (each human being after he or she has attained the age of puberty), one sitting on the right and one on the left (to note his or her actions).

And the angels will be on its sides, and eight angels will, that Day, bear the Throne of your Lord above them.

In the hands of scribes (angels).