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OET (OET-LV) And on_the following day, he_was_seen to_them quarrelling, and he_was_reconciling them to peace, having_said:
Men, you_all_are brothers.
for_ Why _reason are_you_all_injuring one_another?
OET (OET-RV) So on the following day when he saw two of them quarrelling, he tried to resolve the situation by saying, ‘Men, you’re all brothers. Why are you injuring each other?’
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
αὐτοῖς
˱to˲_them
It is clear from the context that these were two Israelite men, though Stephen does not say that specifically. Alternate translation: “to two Israelite men”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / youdual
αὐτοῖς & αὐτοὺς & ἐστε & ἀδικεῖτε
˱to˲_them & them & ˱you_all˲_are & ˱you_all˲_/are/_injuring
Since Moses is speaking to two people, these uses of them and you would be dual if your language uses that form. Otherwise, they would be plural.
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
συνήλλασσεν αὐτοὺς εἰς εἰρήνην
˱he˲_/was/_reconciling them to peace
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of peace, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: “he urged them to stop fighting”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / quotesinquotes
εἰπών, ἄνδρες, ἀδελφοί ἐστε. ἱνα τί ἀδικεῖτε ἀλλήλους?
/having/_said men brothers ˱you_all˲_are for_reason why ˱you_all˲_/are/_injuring one_another
If the direct quotation inside a direct quotation would be confusing in your language, you could translate the second direct quotation as an indirect quotation. Alternate translation: “telling them that they were brothers and asking them why they were hurting each other”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
ἄνδρες
men
This is an idiomatic form of address. Translate it with an expression that would be natural in your language. Alternate translation: “Friends”
Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
ἀδελφοί
brothers
Moses is using the word brothers to mean “kinsmen.” Alternate translation: “kinsmen”
Note 7 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
ἱνα τί ἀδικεῖτε ἀλλήλους?
for_reason why ˱you_all˲_/are/_injuring one_another
Moses is using a rhetorical question here to emphasize the truth of what he is saying. If you would not use a rhetorical question for this purpose in your language, you could translate his words as a statement or an exclamation and communicate the emphasis in another way. Alternate translation: “You should not be hurting each other!”
7:1-53 Stephen responded to the accusations by testifying about his Lord (cp. Luke 21:12-17). Instead of defending himself against their prosecution, he became a witness in God’s prosecution of them, exposing their stubbornness and unfaithfulness to God. Stephen’s recital of Israel’s past reminded them of their repeated rejections of those whom God had sent.
• Stephen’s review of Israel’s history has three principal parts, dealing with the work of the patriarchs (Acts 7:2-16), the ministry of Moses (7:17-43), and the role of the Tabernacle and the Temple (7:44-50). Stephen followed up his historical survey with a clear attack on the hard-heartedness of his own people. With a prophetic challenge, he urged them to stop rebelling against the Holy Spirit and turn to God with repentance and faith.
OET (OET-LV) And on_the following day, he_was_seen to_them quarrelling, and he_was_reconciling them to peace, having_said:
Men, you_all_are brothers.
for_ Why _reason are_you_all_injuring one_another?
OET (OET-RV) So on the following day when he saw two of them quarrelling, he tried to resolve the situation by saying, ‘Men, you’re all brothers. Why are you injuring each other?’
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.