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 7:26

7:26 The next day Moses 4  saw two men 5  fighting, and tried to make peace between 6  them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why are you hurting one another?’

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 “he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

5 tn Grk “saw them”; the context makes clear that two individuals were involved (v. 27).

6 tn Or “tried to reconcile” (BDAG 964-65 s.v. συναλλάσσω).