59كَذٰلِكَ وَأَورَثناها بَني إِسرائيلَMuhammad AsadThus it was: but [in the course of time] We were to bestow all these [things] as a heritage on the children of Israel.1This parenthetical sentence echoes the allusion, in 7:137, to the period of prosperity and honour which the children of Israel were to enjoy in Palestine after their sufferings in Egypt. The reference to "heritage" is, in this and in similar contexts, a metonym for God's bestowal on the oppressed of a life of well-being and dignity.