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And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared and no small tempest lay on
us, all hope that we should be saved was then lost.
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Then after long abstinence, Paul stood forth in the midst of them and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me and not have loosed from Crete to have avoided this harm and loss.
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And now I exhort you to be of good cheer, for there shall be no loss of any person’s life among you, but only of the ship.
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For the angel of God stood by me this night, whose I am and whom I serve,
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saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar; and, behold, God has given thee all those that sail with thee.
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Therefore, sirs, be of good cheer; for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.
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However we must be cast upon a certain island.
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And when the fourteenth night was come as we were driven up and down in the Adriatic sea, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country
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and sounded and found
it twenty fathoms; and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again and found
it fifteen fathoms.
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Then fearing lest we should fall upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern and wished for the day.
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And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,