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Acts 28:11

Alexandria

9 So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed:

10 Who also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.

And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.

12 And landing at Syracuse, we tarried there three days.

13 And from thence we fetched a compass, and came to Rhegium: and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli:

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BSB
After three months we set sail in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered in the island. It had the Twin Brothers as a figurehead.
KJV
And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.
WEB
After three months, we set sail in a ship of Alexandria which had wintered in the island, whose figurehead was “The Twin Brothers.”
ASV
And after three months we set sail in a ship of Alexandria which had wintered in the island, whose sign was The Twin Brothers.
DARBY
And after three months we sailed in a ship which had wintered in the island, an Alexandrian, with [the] Dioscuri for its ensign.
BLB
And after three months, we sailed in an Alexandrian ship having wintered in the island, with a figurehead of the Dioscuri.
ÅB
Da nå tre måneder var gått, fór vi derfra på et skip fra Aleksandria som hadde hatt vinterleie ved øen og hadde tvillingene til merke;
OTB
Etter tre måneder seilte vi med et alexandrinsk skip som hadde overvintret på øya, med tvillinggudene Kastor og Polluks som galionsfigur.
B1930
Da nu tre måneder var gått, fór vi derfra på et skib fra Aleksandria som hadde hatt vinterleie ved øen og hadde tvillingene til merke;

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  • Acts 27:6

    And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy; and he put us therein.

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  • Isaiah 45:20

    Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.

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  • 1 Corinthians 8:4

    As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.

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  • Acts 6:9

    Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.

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  • Jonah 1:5

    Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.

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  • Jonah 1:16

    Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows.

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