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Acts 28:5

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However he shook off the creature into the fire, and wasn’t harmed.

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Acts 28:5 in other translations

Howbeit he shook off the creature into the fire, and took no harm.

Acts 28:5 · American Standard Version

Acts 28:5 in context

  1. 3But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand.
  2. 4When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”
  3. 5However he shook off the creature into the fire, and wasn’t harmed.
  4. 6But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly, but when they watched for a long time and saw nothing bad happen to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.
  5. 7Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us, and courteously entertained us for three days.