to cast Pharaoh upon the shore, red-skinned and short, as though he were a bull. The Children of Israel saw him, and from that time onward water does not accept a dead body. This is the meaning of His saying: “So today We will preserve you in your body.”

“So today We will preserve you in your body so that you may become a sign for those after you. Yet indeed, many people are heedless of Our signs. And We settled the Children of Israel in a goodly settlement and provided them with wholesome things. They did not differ until knowledge came to them. Indeed, your Lord will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning that over which they used to differ.” (92–93)

“So today We will preserve you”: that is, We shall cast you upon a raised part of the land, namely, an elevated place. Ya'qub recited it with a lightened form, “We shall save you.” “In your body”: that is, with your lifeless body. It was also said: “in your armor,” for he had a well-known breastplate studded with jewels. They saw him in his armor and were thus convinced. “So that you may become a sign for those after you”: a lesson and admonition. “Yet indeed, many people are heedless of Our signs.”

“And indeed, We settled the Children of Israel”—[We caused the Children of Israel to dwell] (1)—after Pharaoh’s destruction, “in a goodly settlement”: a goodly abode, namely Egypt. It was also said to be the Jordan and Palestine, the Holy Land which Allah decreed as an inheritance (2) for Abraham and his descendants. Al-Dahhak said: It was Egypt and Syria. “And We provided them with wholesome things”: lawful provisions. “They did not differ”: that is,