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Acts 27:17-19
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
Acts 27:17-19
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
17 having lifted which, they were using supports[a], undergirding the ship. And fearing that they might run-aground at Syrtis[b], having lowered[c] the gear, in this manner they were being carried-along. 18 And we being violently storm-tossed, on the next day they were doing a jettison. 19 And on the third day they threw-off the equipment of the ship with-their-own-hands.
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- Acts 27:17 Ships carried ropes or cables for such an emergency. They were run under the hull and secured on deck to help hold the ship together. The straining caused by the heavy mast as the ship was tossed in the sea would spread the planks of the hull, causing the ship to founder and sink.
- Acts 27:17 That is, the Gulf of Sidra, off the coast of modern Libya, a place of shallow and shifting sands. The sailors feared the winds would blow them to certain destruction off the coast of Africa.
- Acts 27:17 That is, the gear that would turn the ship as much northward as the winds would allow, and away from Africa. Perhaps it was a floating sea anchor.
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