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;