People before your time have indeed asked such questions-and in result thereof have come to deny the truth

Some people before you asked such questions then denied their answers.

People before your time have asked such questions, then later they rejected the answers.

qad sa-alahā qawmun min qablikum thumma aṣbaḥū bihā kāfirīn

Indeed, asked them a people from before you, then they became thereby disbelievers.

People before your time have indeed asked such questions-and in result thereof have come to deny the truth

A folk before you asked (for such disclosures) and then disbelieved therein

Some people before you did ask such questions, and on that account lost their faith

Some people before you asked such questions then denied their answers.

People before your time have asked such questions, then later they rejected the answers.

Other people before you enquired about such things, but when they were disclosed to them, they refused to carry them out

A people before you indeed asked such questions, and then became disbelievers on account of them

Surely, the folk asked about them before you. Again, they became ones who are ungrateful for it.

A folk before you asked about them; then became disbelievers because of it.

Indeed, people asked such questions before you, then on that account they became disbelievers.

A people before you asked about these things, then came to be disbelievers therein

Surely, brought up question about it, a nation before you; afterwards they became, because of it, as disbelievers (since they could not bear and digest the reply to their questions)

Some people before you did ask such questions and later lost their faith because of those very things

A people before you asked about them, but then came to reject them.

A people even before you already asked about them; thereafter they became disbelievers in them

People living before you had asked about such things, but then rejected them

People before you asked such questions, and then, as a result, became disbelievers

Some folk before you asked such questions and then rejected the instructions (2:68)

A nation prior to you had asked questions concerning such matters. As a result they lost their faith

Some people before you asked such questions, and for that reason (they) lost their faith

A people asked such [questions] before you; then they became thereby disbelievers

A people before you had asked the same, then they became rejecters in it

Before you, some people asked about things, then ignored [the answers]

Surely people have asked questions before you, and were then found disbelievers therein

Such things were asked by a people before you, but they disbelieved them afterwards

People before you asked about them and then later came to reject them.

Indeed a people before you used to ask such questions (and demanded from their Prophet such things as particular miracles), and thereafter they fell into unbelief (through not carrying out the commandments given in answer to their questions or through willfully disbelieving in their Prophet despite the miracles worked)

Certainly some people asked about them before you and then came to disbelieve in them

People before you have asked such questions, yet on the morrow they disbelieved therein (or lost their faith)

A group (of people) before you have asked them, then they became disbelievers in them

Some people before you asked such questions, and consequently lost their faith

People before you asked such questions and when they were answered, then they denied it