Acts 27:28
26 Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.
27 But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country;
And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.
29 Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
30 And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,
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.
Compare
- 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;