Acts 27:38
“And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.”
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Acts 27:38 Context
36Then were they all of good cheere, and they also tooke some meat. 37And we were in all, in the ship, two hundred, threescore and sixteene soules. 38And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea. 39And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discouered a certaine creek, with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship. 40And when they had taken vp the ankers, they committed themselues vnto the sea, & loosed the rudder bands, and hoised vp the maine saile to the winde, and made toward shore.
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And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.
- King James Version
When they had eaten enough, they {began} to lighten the ship by throwing out the wheat into the sea.
- New American Standard Version (1995)