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and on the third day they threw the ship'stackle overboard with their ownhands.
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Since neithersunnorstarsappeared for manydays, and nosmallstorm was assailing us, from then on allhope of our being saved was gradually abandoned.
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When they had gone a longtimewithoutfood, thenPaulstood up in their midst and said, "1Men, you ought to have followed my advice and not to have setsail from 2Crete and incurredthis3damage and loss.
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"Yet now I urge you to 4keep up your courage, for there will be noloss of lifeamong you, but only of the ship.
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"For this very night5an angel of the God to whom I belong and 6whom I serve7stoodbefore me,
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saying, 'Do not be afraid, Paul; 8you muststandbeforeCaesar; and behold, God has granted you 9allthose who are sailing with you.'
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"Therefore, 10keep up your courage, men, for I believeGod that it will turn out exactly** as I have been told.
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"But we must11runaground on a certain12island."
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But when the fourteenthnightcame, as we were being drivenabout in the Adriatic Sea, aboutmidnight* the sailors began to surmise that they were approachingsomeland.
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They tooksoundings and found it to be twentyfathoms; and a littlefarther on they tookanothersounding and found it to be fifteenfathoms.
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Fearing that we might 13runagroundsomewhere on the rocks, they castfouranchors from the stern and wished for daybreak.