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.