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OET (OET-LV) Of_you being_able to_know that there_are not more to_me twelve days, from which I_went_up going_to_prostrate in Hierousalaʸm/(Yərūshālayim).
OET (OET-RV) You can quickly establish that it was less than twelve days ago that I arrived in Yerusalem to worship there.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / litotes
οὐ πλείους εἰσίν μοι ἡμέραι δώδεκα, ἀφ’ ἧς
not more ˱there˲_are ˱to˲_me days twelve from which
Paul is using a figure of speech that expresses a positive meaning by using a negative word together with a word that is the opposite of the intended meaning. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “it was only 12 days ago that”
24:1-27 Tertullus presented a legal case against Paul in a Roman court on behalf of the high priest (24:1-9). Then Paul cheerfully made his defense and defended his faith (24:10-21), and the governor adjourned the hearing without a decision and left Paul in prison for two years (24:22-27).
OET (OET-LV) Of_you being_able to_know that there_are not more to_me twelve days, from which I_went_up going_to_prostrate in Hierousalaʸm/(Yərūshālayim).
OET (OET-RV) You can quickly establish that it was less than twelve days ago that I arrived in Yerusalem to worship there.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.