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Acts 7:6-7

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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  7:7 But I will punish 4  the nation they serve as slaves,’ said God, ‘and after these things they will come out of there 5  and worship 6  me in this place.’ 7 
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[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.

[7:7]  4 tn BDAG 568 s.v. κρίνω 5.b.α states, “Oft. the emphasis is unmistakably laid upon that which follows the Divine Judge’s verdict, upon the condemnation or punishment: condemn, punishAc 7:7 (Gen 15:14).”

[7:7]  5 tn The words “of there” are not in the Greek text, but are implied.

[7:7]  6 tn Or “and serve,” but with religious/cultic overtones (BDAG 587 s.v. λατρεύω).

[7:7]  7 sn An allusion to Exod 3:12.



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