Do you not know? hath it not been heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood the foundations of the earth?
Ibn Ezra
הלא תדעו Have ye not known by your own common sense, which is the most important source of knowledge ; הלא תשמעו have you not heard; have you not been informed by others; הלא הגד מראש לכם hath it not been told you from the beginning, this is the lowest degree of knowledge. From the beginning. From the first day of your existence; and even if you have no knowledge at all, have you not considered the foundations of the earth? etc.
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
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