42And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.


In Context

39 And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.

40 And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.

41 And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.

42 And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.

43 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:

44 And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.

Acts 27:42 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

27:42The soldiers planned to kill the prisoners to prevent any of them from swimming away and escaping.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

27:42And the soldiers' counsel was, that they should kill the prisoners, lest any of them, swimming out, should escape.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

27:42And the soldiers counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them'should swim out, and escape.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:42And the counsel of the soldiers was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one should swim off and escape.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

27:42And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:42And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:42The soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

27:42And the soldiers' counsel was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one having swam out should escape,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

27:42And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.