27 When the fourteenth night had come, as we were being driven across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land. 28 So they took a sounding and found twenty fathoms.[a] A little farther on they took a sounding again and found fifteen fathoms.[b] 29 And fearing that we might (A)run on the rocks, they let down four anchors from the stern and prayed for day to come.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 27:28 About 120 feet; a fathom (Greek orguia) was about 6 feet or 2 meters
  2. Acts 27:28 About 90 feet (see previous note)

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