Acts 7:6

7:6 But God spoke as follows: ‘Your ¹  descendants will be foreigners ²  in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years. ³ 

Acts 16:38

16:38 The police officers reported these words to the magistrates. They were frightened when they heard Paul and Silas ⁴  were Roman citizens ⁵ 

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¹ tn Grk “that his”; the discourse switches from indirect to direct with the following verbs. For consistency the entire quotation is treated as second person direct discourse in the translation.

² tn Or “will be strangers,” that is, one who lives as a noncitizen of a foreign country.

³ sn A quotation from Gen 15:13. Exod 12:40 specifies the sojourn as 430 years.

⁴ tn Grk “heard they”; the referents (Paul and Silas) have been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ sn Roman citizens. This fact was disturbing to the officials because due process was a right for a Roman citizen, well established in Roman law. To flog a Roman citizen was considered an abomination. Such punishment was reserved for noncitizens.