34. I urge you, therefore, to take some food; it will help you survive. Not a hair of the head of anyone of you will be lost.”
35. When he said this, he took bread, gave thanks to God in front of them all, broke it, and began to eat.
36. They were all encouraged, and took some food themselves.
37. In all, there were two hundred seventy-six of us on the ship.
38. After they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.
39. When day came they did not recognize the land, but made out a bay with a beach. They planned to run the ship ashore on it, if they could.
40. So they cast off the anchors and abandoned them to the sea, and at the same time they unfastened the lines of the rudders, and hoisting the foresail into the wind, they made for the beach.
41. But they struck a sandbar and ran the ship aground. The bow was wedged in and could not be moved, but the stern began to break up under the pounding [of the waves].
42. The soldiers planned to kill the prisoners so that none might swim away and escape,
43. but the centurion wanted to save Paul and so kept them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to the shore,