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The Shipwreck

27 When the fourteenth night came, while we were being driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea,[a] about midnight the sailors suspected that they were approaching some land. 28 They took soundings and found it to be one hundred twenty feet deep.[b] After sailing a little farther, they took soundings again and found it was ninety feet deep.[c] 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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Footnotes

  1. Acts 27:27 At that time, the Adriatic Sea included the present-day Adriatic plus a large section of the Mediterranean Sea south of it.
  2. Acts 27:28 Or twenty fathoms (a fathom is about six feet deep)
  3. Acts 27:28 Or fifteen fathoms