30. Yet truly, the sailors were seeking a way to flee from the ship, for they had lowered a lifeboat into the sea, on the pretext that they were attempting to cast anchors from the bow of the ship.
31. So Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Unless these men remain in the ship, you will not be able to be saved."
32. Then the soldiers cut the ropes to the lifeboat, and they allowed it to fall.
33. And when it began to be light, Paul requested that they all take food, saying: "This is the fourteenth day that you have been waiting and continuing to fast, taking nothing.
34. For this reason, I beg you to accept food for the sake of your health. For not a hair from the head of any of you shall perish."
35. And when he had said these things, taking bread, he gave thanks to God in the sight of them all. And when he had broken it, he began to eat.
36. Then they all became more peaceful in soul. And they also took food.
37. Truly, we were two hundred and seventy-six souls on the ship.
38. And having been nourished with food, they lightened the ship, casting the wheat into the sea.
39. And when day had arrived, they did not recognize the landscape. Yet truly, they caught sight of a certain narrow inlet having a shore, into which they thought it might be possible to force the ship.
40. And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves to the sea, at the same time loosing the restraints of the rudders. And so, raising the mainsail to the gusting wind, they pressed on toward the shore.
41. And when we happened upon a place open to two seas, they ran the ship aground. And indeed, the bow, being immobilized, remained fixed, but truly the stern was broken by the violence of the sea.