Acts 27:27

New Testament · SCRIPTURE

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

On the fourteenth night we were still being driven across the Adriatic Sea. About midnight the sailors sensed they were approaching land.

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KJV

King James Version

But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country;

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WEB

World English Bible

But 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.

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ASV

American Standard Version

But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven to and fro in the [sea of] Adria, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some country:

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BLB

Berean Literal Bible

And when the fourteenth night had come of us being driven about in the Adriatic, toward [the] middle of the night the sailors were sensing some land to be drawing near to them.

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Acts 27

²⁵ So take courage, men, for I believe God that it will happen just as He told me.

²⁶ However, we must run aground on some island.”

²⁷ On the fourteenth night we were still being driven across the Adriatic Sea. About midnight the sailors sensed they were approaching land.

²⁸ They took soundings and found that the water was twenty fathoms deep. Going a little farther, they took another set of soundings that read fifteen fathoms.

²⁹ Fearing that we would run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daybreak.

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