Hūd 11:35

am yaqūlūna'ftarāh, qul ini'ftaraytuhū fa-ʿalayya ijrāmī wa anā barīʾun mimmā tujrimūn

"Or do they say, 'He has invented it'? Say: 'If I have invented it, my crime is upon me; and I am free of the crimes you commit.'"

This verse stands right in the middle of the Noah narrative, and it changes the addressee: the sentence is spoken not to Noah's people but to those the Prophet addresses. The command qul (say) shows this plainly.

And the verse opens with a word-for-word repetition of the thirteenth: am yaqūlūna'ftarāh.

The same claim, two different answers. This is a repetition that can be verified from the text.

And the placing of the verse in the middle of the narrative is worth recording. I record this as my own reading, and its ground is the position of the verse: the Noah narrative was in the very midst of a scene of denial (32); the verse steps out of it, turns to the present addressee and cites the same claim. The sūra, that is, breaks the impression that the narrative "belongs to the past".

The root ج-ر-م: to cut, to sever; and from there, a crime. Ijrām — to commit a crime.

And the construction of the sentence is an application of the principle of burden treated across this series:

The principle lā taziru wāziratun wizra ukhrā was treated at Fāṭir 35/18, al-Najm 53/38, al-Zumar 39/7 and al-Isrāʾ 17/15. I rely on that treatment.

And this principle will come back in its hardest form in the forty-sixth verse of the sūra — in the matter of Noah's son. That will be treated separately in its place.