Acts:27:26-44

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* Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island . * But when the fourteenth night was come , as we were driven up and down in Adria , about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country ; * And sounded , and found it twenty fathoms : and when they had gone a little further , they sounded again , and found it fifteen fathoms . * Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks , they cast four anchors out of the stern , and wished for the day . * And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship , when they had let down the boat into the sea , under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship , * Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers , Except these abide in the ship , ye cannot be saved . * Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat , and let her fall off . * And while the day was coming on , Paul besought them all to take meat , saying , This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting , having taken nothing . * Wherefore I pray you to take some meat : for this is for your health : for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you . * And when he had thus spoken , he took bread , and gave thanks to God in presence of them all : and when he had broken it , he began to eat . * Then were they all of good cheer , and they also took some meat . * And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls . * And when they had eaten enough , they lightened the ship , and cast out the wheat into the sea . * And when it was day , they knew not the land : but they discovered a certain creek with a shore , into the which they were minded , if it were possible , to thrust in the ship . * And when they had taken up the anchors , they committed themselves unto the sea , and loosed the rudder bands , and hoised up the mainsail to the wind , and made toward shore . * And falling into a place where two seas met , they ran the ship aground ; and the forepart stuck fast , and remained unmoveable , but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves . * And the soldiers ' counsel was to kill the prisoners , lest any of them should swim out , and escape . * But the centurion , willing to save Paul , kept them from their purpose ; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea , and get to land : * And the rest , some on boards , and some on broken pieces of the ship . And so it came to pass , that they escaped all safe to land .

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