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But the storm being extremely violent on us, on the next day they threw cargo overboard,
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and on the third day with their own hands they cast away the ship furniture.
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And neither sun nor stars appearing for many days, and no small storm lying on us, in the end all hope of our being saved was taken away.
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And when they had been a long while without taking food, Paul then standing up in the midst of them said, Ye ought, O men, to have hearkened to me, and not have made sail from Crete and have gained this disaster and loss.
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And now I exhort you to be of good courage, for there shall be no loss at all of life of [any] of you, only of the ship.
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For an angel of the God, whose I am and whom I serve, stood by me this night,
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saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must stand before Caesar; and behold, God has granted to thee all those that sail with thee.
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Wherefore be of good courage, men, for I believe God that thus it shall be, as it has been said to me.
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But we must be cast ashore on a certain island.
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And when the fourteenth night was come, we being driven about in Adria, towards the middle of the night the sailors supposed that some land neared them,
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and having sounded found twenty fathoms, and having gone a little farther and having again sounded they found fifteen fathoms;