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Acts 27:17
Which being taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship: and fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, they let down the sail yard and so were driven.
Acts 27:17 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
Acts 27:17 in other translations
Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.
After hoisting it up, the crew used ropes to undergird the ship. And fearing that they would run aground on the sandbars of Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor and were driven along.
After they had hoisted it up, they used cables to help reinforce the ship. Fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis sand bars, they lowered the sea anchor, and so were driven along.
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In context
14 But not long after, there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroaquilo.
15 And when the ship was caught and could not bear up against the wind, giving up the ship to the winds, we were driven.
16 And running under a certain island that is called Cauda, we had much work to come by the boat.
17 Which being taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship: and fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, they let down the sail yard and so were driven.
18 And we, being mightily tossed with the tempest, the next day they lightened the ship.
19 And the third day they cast out with their own hands the tacking of the ship.
20 And when neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and no small storms lay on us, all hope of our being saved was now taken away.
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