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OET (OET-LV) But the god spoke thus that will_be the descendants of_him:
a_sojourner in anothers land, and they_will_be_enslaving it and they_will_be_mistreating it four_hundred years.
OET (OET-RV) And yet God also told him that his descendants would end up staying in another country where they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / quotations
ἐλάλησεν δὲ οὕτως ὁ Θεὸς ὅτι ἔσται τὸ σπέρμα αὐτοῦ, πάροικον ἐν γῇ ἀλλοτρίᾳ, καὶ δουλώσουσιν αὐτὸ καὶ κακώσουσιν ἔτη τετρακόσια
spoke but thus ¬the God that will_be the descendants ˱of˲_him /a/_sojourner in land another’s and ˱they˲_/will_be/_enslaving it and ˱they˲_/will_be/_mistreating_‹it› years four_hundred
It may be more natural in your language to have a direct quotation here. Alternate translation: “But God spoke to him like this, ‘Your seed would be a stranger in a foreign land, and they will enslave him and treat him badly for 400 years’”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ἐλάλησεν & οὕτως ὁ Θεὸς
spoke & thus ¬the God
Stephen assumes that his listeners will know that this occurred some time after the statement in the previous verse. It may be helpful to state that in your translation. Alternate translation: “Subsequently God told Abraham that”
Note 3 topic: writing-pronouns
ἔσται τὸ σπέρμα αὐτοῦ, πάροικον ἐν γῇ ἀλλοτρίᾳ, καὶ δουλώσουσιν αὐτὸ καὶ κακώσουσιν
will_be the descendants ˱of˲_him /a/_sojourner in land another’s and ˱they˲_/will_be/_enslaving it and ˱they˲_/will_be/_mistreating_‹it›
Stephen is using the singular word seed to mean “descendants,” and so he uses the singular noun stranger and the singular pronoun him. For clarity in your translation, to show that he is not referring to a single individual, you could state “descendants” and “strangers” and use the plural pronoun them. Alternate translation: “his descendants would be strangers in a foreign land, whose people would enslave them and treat them badly”
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) But the god spoke thus that will_be the descendants of_him:
a_sojourner in anothers land, and they_will_be_enslaving it and they_will_be_mistreating it four_hundred years.
OET (OET-RV) And yet God also told him that his descendants would end up staying in another country where they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
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.