Acts 27:29
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Fearing that we would run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daybreak.
In context
27 On the fourteenth night we were still being driven across the Adriatic Sea. About midnight the sailors sensed they were approaching land.
28 They took soundings and found that the water was twenty fathoms deep. Going a little farther, they took another set of soundings that read fifteen fathoms.
29 Fearing that we would run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daybreak.
30 Meanwhile, the sailors attempted to escape from the ship. Pretending to lower anchors from the bow, they let the lifeboat down into the sea.
31 But Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men remain with the ship, you cannot be saved.”
Acts 27:29 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Fearing that we would run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daybreak.
- KJV King James Version
- Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
- WEB World English Bible
- Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And fearing lest haply we should be cast ashore on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for the day.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and fearing lest on rough places we may fall, out of the stern having cast four anchors, they were wishing day to come.
- DBY Darby Translation
- and fearing lest we should be cast on rocky places, casting four anchors out of the stern, they wished that day were come.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Then fearing lest we should fall upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.