Acts 27:28-30

New American Standard Bible

²⁸ And they took soundings and found it to be twenty fathoms; and a little farther on they took another sounding and found it to be fifteen fathoms. ²⁹ Fearing that we might ^(A)run aground somewhere on the ^[a]rocks, they cast four anchors from the stern and ^[b]prayed 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 that they were going to lay out anchors from the bow,