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Paulsaid to the centurionand to the soldiers,Excepttheseabidein the ship,yecannot* be saved.
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Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat,andlether fall off.
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Andwhiletheday was comingon, Paulbesought them all to takemeat,saying, This day is the fourteenthday that ye have tarried and continuedfasting, having takennothing.
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Wherefore I prayyou to take some meat:forthisisforyourhealth:for there shallnot an hairfallfrom the head of any of you.
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And when he had thusspoken*, he tookbread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all:and when he had broken it, he began to eat.
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Thenwerethey*all of good cheer, and theyalsotook some meat.
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And we were in allin the ship two hundredthreescore and sixteensouls.
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And when they had eatenenough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheatinto the sea.
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Andwhen it wasday, they knewnot the land:but they discovered a certaincreekwith a shore,into the which they were minded, 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,andloosed the rudderbands,and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and madetowardshore.
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Andfallinginto a place where two seas met, they ran the shipaground; and the forepartstuckfast, and remainedunmoveable,but the hinder part was brokenwith the violence of the waves.