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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 1runagroundsomewhere on the rocks, they castfouranchors from the stern and wished for daybreak.
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But as the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and had letdown2the ship's boat into the sea, on the pretense of intending to lay out anchors from the bow,
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Paulsaid to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Unless*thesemenremain in the ship, you yourselvescannot* be saved."
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Then the soldierscutaway the 3ropes of the ship's boat and let it fallaway.
33
Until the day was about to dawn, Paul was encouraging them all to take some food, saying, "Today is the fourteenthday that you have been constantlywatching and going withouteating, having takennothing.
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"Therefore I encourage you to take some food, for this is for your preservation, for 4not a hair from the head of any of you will perish."
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Having saidthis, he tookbread and 5gavethanks to God in the presence of all, and he broke it and began to eat.
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All6of them were encouraged and they themselves also tookfood.
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All of us in the ship were twohundred and seventy-six*7persons.