And We exalted them over the other people knowingly,
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (and we chose them) i.e. the children of israel, (purposely) in accordance with our knowledge, (above (all) creatures) of their time, by bestowing upon them quails and honey, the scripture and messenger, and by saving them from pharaoh and his folk and from drowning.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : and verily we chose them, that is, the children of israel, with a knowledge, that we had of their state, over [all] the worlds, that is, the worlds of their time, [those of] the rational beings.
