Acts 27:43
“But the Centurion, willing to saue Paul, kept them from their purpose, and commanded that they which could swimme, should cast themselues first into the sea, and get to land:”
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Acts 27:43 Context
41And falling into a place where two seas met, they ranne the shippe a ground, and the forepart stucke fast, and remained vnmoueable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waues. 42And the souldiers counsel was to kil the prisoners, lest any of them should swimme out, and escape. 43But the Centurion, willing to saue Paul, kept them from their purpose, and commanded that they which could swimme, should cast themselues first into the sea, and get to land: 44And the rest, some on boords, and some on broken pieces of the ship: and so it came to passe that they escaped all safe to land.
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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:
- King James Version
but the centurion, wanting to bring Paul safely through, kept them from their intention, and commanded that those who could swim should jump overboard first and get to land,
- New American Standard Version (1995)