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Acts 27:31-44 Amplified Bible (AMP)

31. Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, Unless these men remain in the ship, you cannot be saved.

32. Then the soldiers cut away the ropes that held the small boat, and let it fall and drift away.

33. While they waited until it should become day, Paul entreated them all to take some food, saying, This is the fourteenth day that you have been continually in suspense and on the alert without food, having eaten nothing.

34. So I urge (warn, exhort, encourage, advise) you to take some food [for your safety]–it will give you strength; for not a hair is to perish from the head of any one of you.

35. Having said these words, he took bread and, giving thanks to God before them all, he broke it and began to eat.

36. Then they all became more cheerful and were encouraged and took food themselves.

37. All told there were 276 souls of us in the ship.

38. And after they had eaten sufficiently, [they proceeded] to lighten the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.

39. Now when it was day [and they saw the land], they did not recognize it, but they noticed a bay with a beach on which they [taking counsel] purposed to run the ship ashore if they possibly could.

40. So they cut the cables and severed the anchors and left them in the sea; at the same time unlashing the ropes that held the rudders and hoisting the foresail to the wind, they headed for the beach.

41. But striking a crosscurrent (a place open to two seas) they ran the ship aground. The prow stuck fast and remained immovable, and the stern began to break up under the violent force of the waves.

42. It was the counsel of the soldiers to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim to land and escape;

43. But the centurion, wishing to save Paul, prevented their carrying out their purpose. He commanded those who could swim to throw themselves overboard first and make for the shore,

44. And the rest on heavy boards or pieces of the vessel. And so it was that all escaped safely to land.

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