26. “However, we need to run aground on some island.”
27. And when the fourteenth night came, as we were driven up and down in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were drawing near some land.
28. So, taking soundings, they found it to be twenty fathoms. And a little farther on they took soundings again and found it to be fifteen fathoms.
29. And, fearing lest we should run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern, and were praying for day to come.
30. But when the sailors were seeking to escape from the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under pretence of going to cast out anchors from the prow,
31. Sha’ul said to the captain and the soldiers, “If these do not remain in the ship, it is impossible for you to be saved.”
32. Then the soldiers did cut the ropes of the boat and let it fall off.
33. And when day was about to come, Sha’ul urged them all to take food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day you have continued without food, and eaten none at all.
34. “So I urge you to take food, for this concerns your safety, since not a hair shall fall from the head of any of you.”
35. And having said this, he took bread and gave thanks to Elohim in the presence of them all. And when he had broken it he began to eat.
36. And they were all encouraged, and also took food themselves.
37. And all of us were two hundred and seventy-six beings in the ship.
38. And being satisfied with food, they were lightening the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.
39. And when day came, they did not recognise the land, but they noted a certain bay with a beach, onto which they planned to run the ship if possible.
40. And having cast off the anchors, they left them in the sea, meanwhile untying the rudder ropes. And they hoisted the foresail to the wind and made for the beach.
41. But coming upon a place where two seas met, they grounded the ship, and the prow stuck fast and remained immovable, but the stern was broken by the pounding of the surf.