34. Therefore I beg you to take some food, for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads.”
35. When he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and he broke it, and began to eat.
36. Then they all cheered up, and they also took food.
37. In all, we were two hundred seventy-six souls on the ship.
38. When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.