32. Then the soldiers cut the ropes holding the skiff and let it drop away.
33. When it was about daylight, Paul urged them all to take food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have been waiting and going without food, having eaten nothing.
34. Therefore I urge you to take some food. For this has to do with your survival, since none of you will lose a hair from your head.”
35. After he said these things and had taken some bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all of them, and when he broke it, he began to eat.
36. They all became encouraged and took food themselves.
37. In all there were 276 of us on the ship.
38. When they had eaten enough, they began to lighten the ship by throwing the grain overboard into the sea.
39. When daylight came, they did not recognize the land but sighted a bay with a beach. They planned to run the ship ashore if they could.
40. After casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the ropes that held the rudders. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and headed for the beach.