Acts 27:28
“And sounded, and found it twentie fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded againe, and found it fifteene fathoms.”
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Acts 27:28 Context
26Howbeit, we must be cast vpon a certaine Iland. 27But when the fourteenth night was come, as wee were driuen vp and downe in Adria about midnight, the shipmen deemed that they drew neere to some countrey: 28And sounded, and found it twentie fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded againe, and found it fifteene fathoms. 29Then fearing lest we should haue fallen vpon rockes, they cast foure ancres out of the sterne, and wished for the day. 30And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let downe the boat into the sea, vnder colour as though they would haue cast ancres out of the fore-ship,
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Other Translations for Acts 27:28
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
They took soundings and found {it to be} twenty fathoms; and a little farther on they took another sounding and found {it to be} fifteen fathoms.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
and they sounded, and found twenty fathoms; and after a little space, they sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms.
- American Standard Version (1901)
And they let down the lead, and saw that the sea was a hundred and twenty feet deep; and after a little time they did it again and it was ninety feet.
- Basic English Bible
and having sounded found twenty fathoms, and having gone a little farther and having again sounded they found fifteen fathoms;
- Darby Bible
And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.
- Webster's Bible
So they hove the lead and found twenty fathoms of water; and after a short time they hove again and found fifteen fathoms.
- Weymouth Bible
They took soundings, and found twenty fathoms. After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.
- World English Bible
And thei kesten doun a plommet, and founden twenti pasis of depnesse. And aftir a litil thei weren departid fro thennus, and foundun fiftene pasis.
- Wycliffe Bible
and having sounded they found twenty fathoms, and having gone a little farther, and again having sounded, they found fifteen fathoms,
- Youngs Literal Bible
People's Bible Notes for Acts 27:28
Ac 27:28 Sounded, and found [it] twenty fathoms. One hundred and twenty feet. The shallowness showed that they approached a coast, especially as it grew shallower every time the lead was cast.