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Once it had been decided that we should set sail for Italy, they handed Sha'ul and some other prisoners over to an officer of the Emperor's Regiment named Julius.
2
We embarked in a ship from Adramyttium which was about to sail to the ports along the coast of the province of Asia, and put out to sea, accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica.
3
The next day, we landed at Tzidon; and Julius considerately allowed Sha'ul to go visit his friends and receive what he needed.
4
Putting to sea from there, we sailed close to the sheltered side of Cyprus because the winds were against us,
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then across the open sea along the coasts of Cilicia and Pamphylia; and so we reached Myra in Lycia.
6
There the Roman officer found an Alexandrian vessel sailing to Italy and put us aboard.
7
For a number of days we made little headway, and we arrived off Cnidus only with difficulty. The wind would not let us continue any farther along the direct route; so we ran down along the sheltered side of Crete from Cape Salmone;
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and, continuing to struggle on, hugging the coast, we reached a place called Pleasant Harbor, near the town of Lasea.
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Since much time had been lost, and continuing the voyage was risky, because it was already past Yom-Kippur, Sha'ul advised them,