38. We ate all we wanted. Then we began making the ship lighter by throwing the grain into the sea.
39. When daylight came, the sailors saw land. They did not know what land it was, but they saw a bay with a beach. They wanted to sail the ship to the beach, if they could.
40. So they cut the ropes to the anchors and left the anchors in the sea. At the same time, they untied the ropes that were holding the rudders. Then they raised the front sail into the wind and sailed toward the beach.
41. But the ship hit a sandbank. The front of the ship stuck there and could not move. Then the big waves began to break the back of the ship to pieces.
42. The soldiers decided to kill the prisoners so that none of them could swim away and escape.
43. But Julius, the officer, wanted to let Paul live. He did not allow the soldiers to kill the prisoners. Instead he ordered everyone who could swim to jump into the water and swim to land.
44. The rest used wooden boards or pieces of the ship. And this is how all the people made it safely to land.