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Acts 27:29
Then fearing lest we should fall upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
Acts 27:29 · Webster Bible
Acts 27:29 in other translations
Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
Fearing that we would run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daybreak.
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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In context
26 But we must be cast upon a certain isle.
27 When the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen suspected that they drew near to some country:
28 And sounded, and found [it] twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found [it] fifteen fathoms.
29 Then fearing lest we should fall upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
30 And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under color as though they would cast anchors out of the foreship,
31 Paul said to the centurion, and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.
32 Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.
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