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## as they were looking up ##
"as the apostles were looking up at the sky"
## he vanished into a cloud out of their sight ##
"He went up into the sky, and a cloud blocked their view of him and they could not see Him anymore."
## looking intensely to heaven ##
"staring at the sky" or "gazing at the sky"
## You men of Galilee ##
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Specifically "you apostles." Though the angels spoke to the apostles, other verses suggest that other disciples, both men and women, were present at this event.
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## why do you stand looking into heaven? ##
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This rhetorical question can be translated as a statement as in the UDB. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])