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Acts 27:29

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Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight.

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Acts 27:29 in other translations

And fearing lest haply we should be cast ashore on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for the day.

Acts 27:29 · American Standard Version

Acts 27:29 in context

  1. 27But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land.
  2. 28They took soundings, and found twenty fathoms. After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.
  3. 29Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight.
  4. 30As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow,
  5. 31Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, “Unless these stay in the ship, you can’t be saved.”