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Acts 27:34
So I make request to you to take food; for this is for your salvation: not a hair from the head of any of you will come to destruction.
Acts 27:34 · Bible in Basic English
Acts 27:34 in other translations
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.
So for your own preservation, I urge you to eat something, because not a single hair of your head will be lost.”
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.”
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In context
31 But Paul said to the captain and his men, If you do not keep these men in the ship, you will not be safe.
32 Then the armed men, cutting the cords of the boat, let her go.
33 And when dawn was near, Paul gave them all orders to take food, saying, This is the fourteenth day you have been waiting and taking no food.
34 So I make request to you to take food; for this is for your salvation: not a hair from the head of any of you will come to destruction.
35 And when he had said this and had taken bread, he gave praise to God before them all, and took a meal of the broken bread.
36 Then they all took heart and did the same.
37 And we were, in the ship, two hundred and seventy-six persons.
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