NASB
"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."
— Acts 27:28, NASB
“And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.”
“and they sounded, and found twenty fathoms; and after a little space, they sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms. ”
“They took soundings, and found twenty fathoms. After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.”
“They took soundings and found the water was twenty fathoms deep; when they had sailed a little farther they took soundings again and found it was fifteen fathoms deep.”
“Who also sounding, found twenty fathoms: and going on a little further, they found fifteen fathoms.”
“And they let down the lead, and saw that the sea was a hundred and twenty feet deep; and after a little time they did it again and it was ninety feet.”
“And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.”
"Therefore, keep up your courage, men, for I believe God that it will turn out exactly as I have been told.
"But we must run aground on a certain island."
But when the fourteenth night came, as we were being driven about in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors began to surmise that they were approaching some land.
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.
Fearing that we might run aground somewhere on the rocks, they cast four anchors from the stern and wished for daybreak.
But as the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and had let down the ship's boat into the sea, on the pretense of intending to lay out anchors from the bow,
Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Unless these men remain in the ship, you yourselves cannot be saved."