Acts 27:42
King James Version (KJV)
And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
In context
40 And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.
41 And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.
42 And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
43 But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land:
44 And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.
Acts 27:42 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
- WEB World English Bible
- The soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- The soldiers planned to kill the prisoners so none of them could swim to freedom.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And the soldiers' counsel was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one having swam out should escape,
- DBY Darby Translation
- And [the] counsel of the soldiers was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one should swim off and escape.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.