This verse refers once again to the important matter of unity and union, putting an stress on avoiding variances and schism, that could be expected to happen every now and then: ``And don't be like those who fell in variance and divided among themselves in parties and sects, after the clear signs that came to them. Those are the ones for whom awaits a painful great punishment.'' A community in which unity and relations and ties are attacked and weakened by means of variance and wrangles, their land will turn to an open space for race courses of strangers and colonizers, and what a great misery and affliction is that.