Acts 27:28
World English Bible (WEB)
They took soundings and found twenty fathoms. After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.
In context
26 But we must run aground on a certain island.”
27 But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land.
28 They took soundings and found twenty fathoms. After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.
29 Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight.
30 As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow,
Acts 27:28 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- They took soundings and found twenty fathoms. After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.
- KJV King James Version
- And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- 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.
- ASV American Standard Version
- and they sounded, and found twenty fathoms; and after a little space, they sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and having sounded they found twenty fathoms, and having gone a little farther, and again having sounded, they found fifteen fathoms,
- DBY Darby Translation
- and having sounded found twenty fathoms, and having gone a little farther and having again sounded they found fifteen fathoms;
- WBS Webster Bible
- And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.