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28 And when they took soundings, they found it to be [a]twenty fathoms; and a little farther on they took another sounding and found it to be [b]fifteen fathoms. 29 And fearing that we might (A)run aground somewhere on the [c]rocks, they cast four anchors from the stern and were praying for daybreak. 30 But as the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and had let down (B)the ship’s boat into the sea, on the pretense of intending to lay out anchors from the bow,

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 27:28 Approx. 120 ft. or 36 m, a fathom was approx. 6 ft. or 1.8 m
  2. Acts 27:28 Approx. 90 ft. or 27 m
  3. Acts 27:29 Lit rough places