The two above translated verse divide the Jews into two main groups or classes of people: 1) The common and illiterate Jews; 2) and the sly, deceitful learned ones. The group of the unlettered and ignorant laymen who knew not their own s c r i p tures, and their knowledge was confined to their inner desires and conjectures. These are introduced by Holy QURÄN thus: ``And some of them are illiterate men who know not the BOOK, save desires, and they are none but those who merely conjecture.