The Children of Israel
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[17:4]
And we made [this] known to the children of Israel through revelation: "Twice, indeed, will you spread corruption on earth and will indeed become grossly overbearing!"

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* v.4 : Lit., “in the revelation” – here evidently used in the generic sense of the word, and probably applying to predictions contained in the Torah (Leviticus xxvi 14-39 and Deuteronomy xxviii 15-68) as well as the prophecies of Isaiah, Jeremiah, John, and Jesus.
* Since both the Bible and the Qur’ān mention that the children of Israel rebelled against the law of God on many occasions, there is every reason to assume that the expression “twice” (marratayn) does not refer to two single instances but, rather, to two distinct, extended periods of their history.