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"When they had eaten enough to be satisfied, they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea."
— Acts 27:38, NET Bible
“And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.”
“And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea. ”
“When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.”
“And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, casting the wheat into the sea.”
“And when they had had enough food, they made the weight of the ship less, turning the grain out into the sea.”
“And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.”
After he said this, Paul took bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all, broke it, and began to eat.
So all of them were encouraged and took food themselves.
(We were in all two hundred seventy-six persons on the ship.)
When they had eaten enough to be satisfied, they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.
Paul is Shipwrecked When day came, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, where they decided to run the ship aground if they could.
So they slipped the anchors and left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the linkage that bound the steering oars together. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and steered toward the beach.
But they encountered a patch of crosscurrents and ran the ship aground; the bow stuck fast and could not be moved, but the stern was being broken up by the force of the waves.