Kisah Para Rasul 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 

Kisah Para Rasul 7:19

7:19 This was the one who exploited ⁴  our people ⁵  and was cruel to our ancestors, ⁶  forcing them to abandon ⁷  their infants so they would die. ⁸ 

[7:6]  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.

[7:6]  ² tn Or “will be strangers,” that is, one who lives as a noncitizen of a foreign country.

[7:6]  ³ sn A quotation from Gen 15:13. Exod 12:40 specifies the sojourn as 430 years.

[7:19]  ⁴ tn According to L&N 88.147 it is also possible to translate κατασοφισάμενος (katasofisameno") as “took advantage by clever words” or “persuaded by sweet talk.”

[7:19]  ⁵ tn Or “race.”

[7:19]  ⁶ tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”

[7:19]  ⁷ tn Or “expose” (BDAG 303 s.v. ἔκθετος).

[7:19]  ⁸ tn Grk “so that they could not be kept alive,” but in this context the phrase may be translated either “so that they would not continue to live,” or “so that they would die” (L&N 23.89).