(Now all the Athenians, and arriving visitors, were occupying themselves with nothing other than speaking or hearing various new ideas.
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King James Version
(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)English Standard Version
Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.New International Version
(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)