Acts 27:28

New Testament · SCRIPTURE

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

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.

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KJV

King James Version

And sounded, and found [it] twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found [it] fifteen fathoms.

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WEB

World English Bible

They took soundings and found twenty fathoms. After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.

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ASV

American Standard Version

and they sounded, and found twenty fathoms; and after a little space, they sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms.

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BLB

Berean Literal Bible

And having taken soundings, they found twenty fathoms. And having gone a little farther and having taken soundings again, they found fifteen fathoms.

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Acts 27

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.

³⁰ Meanwhile, the sailors attempted to escape from the ship. Pretending to lower anchors from the bow, they let the lifeboat down into the sea.

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