ACTs 7:12 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, orange:accusative/object, pink:genitive/possessor.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

UST When Jacob heard a report that there was grain in Egypt that people could buy, he sent Joseph’s older brothers there to buy grain. They went and bought grain from Joseph, but they did not recognize him. Then they returned home.

BSB [When] Jacob heard that [there] was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers [on their] first [visit].

BLB Now Jacob, having heard there is grain in Egypt, sent forth our fathers first.

AICNT “But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers there the first time.

OEB Hearing, however, that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob sent our ancestors there on their first visit.

WEBBE But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET So when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there the first time.

LSV and Jacob having heard that there was grain in Egypt, sent forth our fathers a first time;

FBV When Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt he sent our forefathers down on their first visit.

TCNT But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers out the first time.

T4T When Jacob heard people report that there was grain/food that people could buy in Egypt, he sent Joseph’s older brothers to go there to buy grain. They went and bought grain from Joseph, but they did not recognize him. Then they returned home.

LEB No LEB ACTs book available

BBE But Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, sent out our fathers the first time.

Moff No Moff ACTs book available

Wymth When, however, Jacob heard that there was wheat to be had, he sent our forefathers into Egypt; that was the first time.

ASV But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent forth our fathers the first time.

DRA But when Jacob had heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent our fathers first:

YLT and Jacob having heard that there was corn in Egypt, sent forth our fathers a first time;

Drby But Jacob, having heard of there being corn in Egypt, sent out our fathers first;

RV But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent forth our fathers the first time.

SLT And Jacob having beard wheat being in Egypt, sent our fathers first.

Wbstr But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.

KJB-1769 But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.

KJB-1611 But when Iacob heard that there was corne in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps No Bshps ACTs book available

Gnva But when Iacob heard that there was corne in Egypt, he sent our fathers first:
(But when Yacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent our fathers first: )

Cvdl No Cvdl ACTs book available

TNT But when Iacob hearde that ther was corne in Egipte he sent oure fathers fyrst
(But when Yacob heard that there was corn in Egypt he sent our fathers first )

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Luth No Luth ACTs book available

ClVg Cum audisset autem Jacob esse frumentum in Ægypto, misit patres nostros primum:
(Since listensset however Yacob to_be corn in/into/on to_Egypt, he_sent fathers ours primum: )

UGNT ἀκούσας δὲ Ἰακὼβ, ὄντα σιτία εἰς Αἴγυπτον, ἐξαπέστειλεν τοὺς πατέρας ἡμῶν πρῶτον;
(akousas de Yakōb, onta sitia eis Aigupton, exapesteilen tous pateras haʸmōn prōton;)

SBL-GNT ἀκούσας δὲ Ἰακὼβ ὄντα ⸂σιτία εἰς Αἴγυπτον⸃ ἐξαπέστειλεν τοὺς πατέρας ἡμῶν πρῶτον·
(akousas de Yakōb onta ⸂sitia eis Aigupton⸃ exapesteilen tous pateras haʸmōn prōton;)

RP-GNT Ἀκούσας δὲ Ἰακὼβ ὄντα σῖτα ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ, ἐξαπέστειλεν τοὺς πατέρας ἡμῶν πρῶτον.
(Akousas de Yakōb onta sita en Aiguptōi, exapesteilen tous pateras haʸmōn prōton.)

TC-GNT Ἀκούσας δὲ Ἰακὼβ ὄντα [fn]σῖτα ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ, ἐξαπέστειλε τοὺς πατέρας ἡμῶν πρῶτον.
(Akousas de Yakōb onta sita en Aiguptōi, exapesteile tous pateras haʸmōn prōton. )

7:12 σιτα εν αιγυπτω ¦ σιτια εις αιγυπτον CT

Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs, red:words differ (from our SR-GNT base).

UTN 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 the fathers ˱of˲_us first

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

the fathers ˱of˲_us

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

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