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And while the day was coming on, Paul besought
them all to take food, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have waited and continued fasting, having taken nothing.
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Therefore I pray you to take
some food, for this is for your
salvation and health, for there shall not one hair fall from the head of any of you.
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And when he had thus spoken, he took bread and gave thanks to God in presence of them all; and when he had broken
it, he began to eat.
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Then they were all of good cheer, and they also took
some food.
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And we were in all, in the ship, two hundred and seventy-six souls.
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And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship and cast out the grain into the sea.
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And when it was day, they did not recognize the land, but they discovered a certain gulf with a shore, into which they decided, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.
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And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed
themselves unto the sea and loosed the rudder bands and hoisted up the mainsail to the wind and made toward shore.
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But falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast and remained unmovable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.
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And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out and escape.
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But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, frustrated this counsel and commanded that those who could swim should cast
themselves first
into the sea and get to land;