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.