And _remember_ when Moses said unto his people, O my people, remember the favour of God towards you, since He hath appointed prophets from among you, and made you princes (_masters of servants and other attendants_), and given you what He hath not given any [other] of the peoples (_as the manna and the quails and other things_). O my people, enter the Holy Land which God hath decreed for you (_namely Syria_), and turn not back, lest ye turn losers.—They replied, O Moses, verily there is in it a gigantic people, _of the remains of the tribe of ´Ad_, and we will not enter it until they go forth from it; but if they go forth from it, then we will enter.—[Thereupon] two men, of those who feared _to disobey God, namely Joshua and Caleb, of the chiefs whom Moses sent to discover the circumstances of the giants, and_ upon whom God had conferred favour, _and who had concealed what they had seen of the state of the giants, excepting from Moses, wherefore the other chiefs became cowardly_, said _unto them_, Enter ye upon them through the gate _of the city, and fear them not; for they are bodies without hearts_; and when ye enter it, ye overcome; and upon God place your dependence, if ye be believers.—[But] they said, O Moses, we will never enter it while they remain therein. Therefore go thou and thy Lord, and fight: for we remain here.—_Then Moses_ said, O my Lord, verily I am not master of any but myself and my brother: therefore distinguish between us and the unrighteous people.—_God_ replied, Verily it (_namely the Holy Land_) shall be forbidden them forty years; they shall wander in perplexity in the land: and be not thou solicitous for the unrighteous people.—_The land_ [through which they wandered] _was_ [only] _nine leagues_ [in extent]. _They used to journey during the night with diligence; but in the morning they found themselves in the place whence they had set forth; and they journeyed during the day in like manner. Thus they did until all of them had become extinct, excepting those who had not attained the age of twenty years; and it is said that they were six hundred thousand. Aaron and Moses died in the desert; and mercy was their lot: but punishment was the lot of those. And Moses begged his Lord, when he was about to die, that He would bring him as near as a stone’s throw to the Holy Land: wherefore He did so. And Joshua was made a prophet after the forty [years], and he gave orders to fight against the giants. So he went with those who were with him, and fought against them: and it was Friday; and the sun stood still for him awhile, until he had made an end of fighting against them._