34
Therefore I urge you to take [some] food, for this is necessary for your preservation. For not a hair from your head will be lost."
35
And [after he] said these [things] and took bread, he gave thanks to God in front of [them] all, and [after] breaking [it], he began to eat.
36
So they all were encouraged and partook of food themselves.
37
(Now we were [in] all two hundred seventy six persons on the ship.)
38
And [when they] had eaten their fill of food, they lightened the ship [by] throwing the wheat into the sea.
The Shipwreck
39 Now when day came, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a certain bay having a beach, onto which they decided to run the ship ashore if they could.
40
And slipping the anchors, they left [them] in the sea, at the same time loosening the ropes of the steering oars. And hoisting the foresail to the [wind] that was blowing, they held course for the beach.
41
But falling into a place of crosscurrents, they ran the ship aground. And the bow stuck fast [and] stayed immovable, but the stern was being broken up by the violence.
42
Now the plan of the soldiers was that they would kill the prisoners lest any escape [by] swimming away,
43
but the centurion, [because he] wanted to save Paul, prevented them {from doing what they intended}, and gave orders [that] those who were able to swim should jump in first to get to the land,
44
and [then] the rest, [some] of whom [floated] on planks and [some] of whom on anything [that was] from the ship. And in this way all were brought safely to the land.