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Therefore I pray you to take some meat, for this is for your health; for there shall not a 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 the 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 meat.
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And we were in all on the ship, two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.
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And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship and cast out the wheat into the sea.
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And when it was day, they knew not the land, but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into 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, and loosed the rudder ropes, and hoisted up the mainsail into the wind, and made toward shore.
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And falling into a place where two currents met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast and remained immovable, but the stern began to break up with the violence of the waves.
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And the soldier's 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, kept them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should cast themselves first into the sea and get to land,
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and the rest, some on boards and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass that they all escaped safely to land.