Acts 27:28
26 However, we must run aground on some island.”
27 On the fourteenth night we were still being driven across the Adriatic Sea. About midnight the sailors sensed they were approaching land.
They took soundings and found that the water was twenty fathoms deep. Going a little farther, they took another set of soundings that read fifteen fathoms.
29 Fearing that we would run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daybreak.
30 Meanwhile, the sailors attempted to escape from the ship. Pretending to lower anchors from the bow, they let the lifeboat down into the sea.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- They took soundings and found that the water was twenty fathoms deep. Going a little farther, they took another set of soundings that read fifteen fathoms.
- KJV
- And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.
- WEB
- They took soundings and found twenty fathoms. After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.
- ASV
- and they sounded, and found twenty fathoms; and after a little space, they sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms.
- DARBY
- and having sounded found twenty fathoms, and having gone a little farther and having again sounded they found fifteen fathoms;
- BLB
- And having taken soundings, they found twenty fathoms. And having gone a little farther and having taken soundings again, they found fifteen fathoms.
- ÅB
- Og da de loddet, fant de tyve favner; men da de var kommet et lite stykke derfra og loddet igjen, fant de femten favner;
- OTB
- De loddet dybden og fant at vannet var tjue favner dypt. En kort stund senere loddet de igjen og fant at det var femten favner dypt.
- B1930
- Og da de loddet, fant de tyve favner; men da de var kommet et lite stykke derfra og loddet igjen, fant de femten favner;