Acts 28:5
World English Bible (WEB)
However he shook off the creature into the fire, and wasn’t harmed.
In context
3 But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened on his hand.
4 When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”
5 However he shook off the creature into the fire, and wasn’t harmed.
6 But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly, but when they watched for a long time and saw nothing bad happen to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god.
7 Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us and courteously entertained us for three days.
Acts 28:5 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- However he shook off the creature into the fire, and wasn’t harmed.
- KJV King James Version
- And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- But Paul shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no ill effects.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Howbeit he shook off the creature into the fire, and took no harm.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- he then, indeed, having shaken off the beast into the fire, suffered no evil,
- DBY Darby Translation
- He however, having shaken off the beast into the fire, felt no harm.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And he shook off the animal into the fire, and felt no harm.