Preparing for Shipwreck

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And when ye fourteenth night was come, as we were caried to and from in the Adriaticall sea about midnight, the shipmen deemed that some countrey approched vnto them,

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And sounded, and found it twentie fathoms: and when they had gone a litle further, they sounded againe, and found fifteene fathoms.

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Then fearing least they should haue fallen into some rough places, they cast foure ancres out of the sterne, and wished that the day were come.

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Nowe as the mariners were about to flee out of the ship, and had let downe the boat into the sea vnder a colour as though they would haue cast ankers out of the foreship,

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Paul sayde vnto the Centurion and the souldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye can not be safe.

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Then the souldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let it fall away.

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And when it began to be day, Paul exhorted them all to take meate, saying, This is the fourteenth day that ye haue taried, and continued fasting, receiuing nothing:

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Wherefore I exhort you to take meate: for this is for your safegarde: for there shall not an heare fall from the head of any of you.

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And when he had thus spoken, hee tooke bread and gaue thankes to God, in presence of them all, and brake it, and began to eate.

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Then were they all of good courage, and they also tooke meate.

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Nowe we were in the ship in all two hundreth three score and sixteene soules.

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And whe they had eaten ynough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.

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