Acts 27:28
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
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“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.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.”
King James Version · Public Domain“and they sounded, and found twenty fathoms; and after a little space, they sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and having sounded they found twenty fathoms, and having gone a little farther, and again having sounded, they found fifteen fathoms,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Acts 27:28 — 1 related verse from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ezekiel 3:6not to the many peoples of unfamiliar speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.
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