Verse 17
Acts 27:17
Geneva Bible
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Which they tooke vp and vsed all helpe, vndergirding the ship, fearing least they should haue fallen into Syrtes, and they strake saile, and so were caried.
Original Language Text
greek
ἣν ἄραντες βοηθείαις ἐχρῶντο ὑποζωννύντες τὸ πλοῖον· φοβούμενοί τε μὴ εἰς τὴν Σύρτιν ἐκπέσωσιν, χαλάσαντες τὸ σκεῦος, οὕτως ἐφέροντο.
English Translation
They helped by using ropes to lower the ship, fearing that they might fall into the Syrtis, losing the gear, thus they were carried along.
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Chapter 27 Context
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Now when it was concluded, that we should sayle into Italie, they deliuered both Paul, and certaine...
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And we entred into a ship of Adramyttium purposing to saile by the coastes of Asia, and launched foo...
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And the next day we arriued at Sidon: and Iulius courteously entreated Paul, and gaue him libertie t...
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And from thence we launched, and sayled hard by Cyprus, because ye windes were contrarie.
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Then sayled we ouer the sea by Cilicia, and Pamphilia, and came to Myra, a citie in Lycia.
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And there the Centurion found a ship of Alexandria, sayling into Italie, and put vs therein.
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And when we had sayled slowly many dayes, and scarce were come against Gnidum, because the winde suf...
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And with much adoe sayled beyond it, and came vnto a certaine place called the Faire hauens, neere v...
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So when much time was spent, and sayling was now ieopardous, because also the Fast was nowe passed,...
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And sayde vnto them, Syrs, I see that this voiage will be with hurt and much damage, not of the ladi...
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Neuertheles the Centurion beleeued rather the gouernour and the master of the ship, then those thing...
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And because the hauen was not commodious to winter in, many tooke counsell to depart thence, if by a...
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And when the Southerne winde blew softly, they supposing to atteine their purpose, loosed neerer, an...
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But anon after, there arose by it a stormy winde called Euroclydon.
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And when the ship was caught, and could not resist the winde, we let her goe, and were caried away.
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And we ran vnder a litle Yle named Clauda, and had much a doe to get the boat.
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Which they tooke vp and vsed all helpe, vndergirding the ship, fearing least they should haue fallen...
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The next day when we were tossed with an exceeding tempest, they lightened the ship.
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And the third day we cast out with our owne hands the tackling of the ship.
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And when neither sunne nor starres in many dayes appeared, and no small tempest lay vpon vs, all hop...
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But after long abstinece, Paul stood forth in the mids of them, and said, Syrs, ye should haue heark...
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But now I exhort you to be of good courage: for there shalbe no losse of any mans life among you, sa...
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For there stood by me this night the Angel of God (Elohim), whose I am, and whome I serue,
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Saying, Feare not, Paul: for thou must be brought before Cesar: and lo, God (Elohim) hath giuen vnto...
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Wherefore, sirs, be of good courage: for I beleeue God (Elohim), that it shall be so as it hath bene...
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Howbeit, we must be cast into a certaine Iland.
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And when ye fourteenth night was come, as we were caried to and from in the Adriaticall sea about mi...
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And sounded, and found it twentie fathoms: and when they had gone a litle further, they sounded agai...
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Then fearing least they should haue fallen into some rough places, they cast foure ancres out of the...
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Nowe as the mariners were about to flee out of the ship, and had let downe the boat into the sea vnd...
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Paul sayde vnto the Centurion and the souldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye can not be safe.
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Then the souldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let it fall away.
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And when it began to be day, Paul exhorted them all to take meate, saying, This is the fourteenth da...
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Wherefore I exhort you to take meate: for this is for your safegarde: for there shall not an heare f...
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And when he had thus spoken, hee tooke bread and gaue thankes to God (Elohim), in presence of them a...
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Then were they all of good courage, and they also tooke meate.
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Nowe we were in the ship in all two hundreth three score and sixteene soules.
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And whe they had eaten ynough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.
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And when it was day, they knewe not the countrey, but they spied a certaine creeke with a banke, int...
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So when they had taken vp the ankers, they committed the ship vnto the sea, and loosed the rudder bo...
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And when they fell into a place, where two seas met, they thrust in the ship: and the forepart stuck...
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Then the souldiers counsell was to kill the prisoners, least any of them, when he had swomme out, sh...
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But the Centurion willing to saue Paul, stayed them from this counsell, and commanded that they that...
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And the other, some on boardes, and some on certaine pieces of the ship: and so it came to passe tha...
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