When it was said to them: 'Dwell in this village, and eat of whatever you please; and say, "Unburdening" and enter the gate prostrating, We will forgive you your sins and increase the gooddoers. ' (۱۶۱)

The wicked amongst them changed what was said for other words. Therefore We sent down upon them from heaven a punishment for their evil doing. (۱۶۲)

Ask them about the village that overlooked the sea and what befell (its people) when they broke the Sabbath. Each Sabbath, their fish came swimming towards the shore, but on other days they did not come to them. As such We tempted them (the people) because they had done wrong. (۱۶۳)

And when some asked: 'Why do you admonish a nation whom Allah will destroy or sternly punish? ' They replied: '(Seeking) a pardon from your Lord, and in order that they may be cautious. ' (۱۶۴)

Therefore, when they forgot that of which they were reminded, We saved those who were forbidding evil, and seized the evildoers with an evil punishment for that which they used to do of evil. (۱۶۵)

And when they had scornfully persisted in what they had been forbidden, We said to them: 'Be apes, despised. ' (۱۶۶)

Then your Lord declared He would send against them he who would oppress them cruelly till the Day of Resurrection. Swift is the retribution of your Lord, yet surely He is Forgiving, the Most Merciful. (۱۶۷)

We dispersed them through the earth in nations some were righteous, others were not, and tested them with good and evil in order that they return. (۱۶۸)

Then others succeeded them who inherited the Book and availed themselves of the vanities of this lower world, saying: 'It will be forgiven us. ' But if similar vanities came their way, they would again take them. Have they not taken the covenant of the Book, which they have studied, to tell nothing of Allah except what is true? Surely, the Everlasting Life is better for the cautious, do you not understand! (۱۶۹)

As for those who hold fast to the Book and are steadfast in prayer, We do not waste the wage of the righteous. (۱۷۰)