This refers to another ugly and evil conducts of the people of the BIBLE who were contemporary to OUR prophet, and that was their concealing the facts, and hiding the truth, while they had a covenant with God not to do so, and make message and revelation of Allah known to people. They not only cast the covenant of God behind their ears and entirely ignored it, but on the contrary they twisted and disturbed the facts according to their own fancies and caprices. They tampered with the truth that had come to them, and took what they found it to their personal profit and ignored the rest, and easily sold it for a small price and a miserable profit.

      In the first stage the verse refers to the Jewish Rabbis and learned, but in a general sense of meaning it is a notice and a warning common to all the learned, scholars, men of knowledge and in particular the priesthood of all Divine religions; that it is a duty incumbent on them to make known to people the facts and the truth which is sent down through the s c r i p tures to them. In other word, they ought to know that the message of God has to reach to any man or any nation as a matter of sacred trust. It should be broadcasted, published, and preached, and made clear to all mankind within the reach.