OET interlinear ACTs 7:12

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

ὄντα σιτία εἰς Αἴγυπτον

being grain in Egypt

Stephen assumes that his readers will know that with Joseph as his administrator, Pharaoh had stored up grain during prosperous years and was now selling it. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could indicate this explicitly. Alternate translation: [that people could buy stored grain from Pharaoh in Egypt]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

ἐξαπέστειλεν τοὺς πατέρας ἡμῶν πρῶτον

sent_away (Some words not found in SR-GNT: ἀκούσας Δέ Ἰακώβ ὄντα σιτία εἰς Αἴγυπτον ἐξαπέστειλεν τούς πατέρας ἡμῶν πρῶτον)

By first, Stephen does not mean that Jacob sent Joseph’s older brothers to Egypt before he sent anyone else, or before he did anything else. He means that Jacob sent them for a first time and would later send them for a second time, as Stephen’s listeners would have understood. Alternate translation: [he sent our fathers on a first trip there to buy food]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

τοὺς πατέρας ἡμῶν

(Some words not found in SR-GNT: ἀκούσας Δέ Ἰακώβ ὄντα σιτία εἰς Αἴγυπτον ἐξαπέστειλεν τούς πατέρας ἡμῶν πρῶτον)

Stephen is using the term fathers to mean “ancestors.” Here he means specifically Joseph’s older brothers, as UST indicates. Alternate translation: [our ancestors]