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 13:8

13:8 But the magician Elymas ⁴  (for that is the way his name is translated) ⁵  opposed them, trying to turn the proconsul ⁶  away from the faith.

Acts 15:38

15:38 but Paul insisted ⁷  that they should not take along this one who had left them in Pamphylia ⁸  and had not accompanied them in the work.

[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.

[13:8]  ⁴ tn On the debate over what the name “Elymas” means, see BDAG 320 s.v. ᾿Ελύμας. The magician’s behavior is more directly opposed to the faith than Simon Magus’ was.

[13:8]  ⁵ sn A parenthetical note by the author.

[13:8]  ⁶ sn The proconsul was the Roman official who ruled over a province traditionally under the control of the Roman senate.

[15:38]  ⁷ tn BDAG 94 s.v. ἀξιόω 2.a has “he insisted (impf.) that they should not take him along” for this phrase.

[15:38]  ⁸ sn Pamphylia was a province in the southern part of Asia Minor. See Acts 13:13, where it was mentioned previously.