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after hoisting it up, they took measures to undergird the ship; then, fearing that they should run on the Syr'tis, they lowered the gear, and so were driven.
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As we were violently storm-tossed, they began next day to throw the cargo overboard;
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and the third day they cast out with their own hands the tackle of the ship.
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And when neither sun nor stars appeared for many a day, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned.
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As they had been long without food, Paul then came forward among them and said, "Men, you should have listened to me, and should not have set sail from Crete and incurred this injury and loss.
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I now bid you take heart; for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.
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For this very night there stood by me an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I worship,
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and he said, 'Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar; and lo, God has granted you all those who sail with you.'
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So take heart, men, for I have faith in God that it will be exactly as I have been told.
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But we shall have to run on some island."
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When the fourteenth night had come, as we were drifting across the sea of A'dria, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land.