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Fearing that we might run on the rocks, they let down four anchors from the stern and prayed for day to come.
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But when the sailors tried to escape from the ship and had lowered the boat into the sea, on the pretext of putting out anchors from the bow,
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Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, "Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved."
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Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat and set it adrift.
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Just before daybreak, Paul urged all of them to take some food, saying, "Today is the fourteenth day that you have been in suspense and remaining without food, having eaten nothing.
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Therefore I urge you to take some food, for it will help you survive; for none of you will lose a hair from your heads."
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After he had said this, he took bread; and giving thanks to God in the presence of all, he broke it and began to eat.
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Then all of them were encouraged and took food for themselves.
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(We were in all two hundred seventy-six persons in the ship.)
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After they had satisfied their hunger, they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.
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In the morning they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, on which they planned to run the ship ashore, if they could.