29Fearing that we would be dashed against the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daylight.


In Context

26 Nevertheless, we must run aground on some island."

27 On the fourteenth night we were still being driven across the Adriatic Sea, when about midnight the sailors sensed they were approaching land.

28 They took soundings and found that the water was a hundred and twenty feet deep. A short time later they took soundings again and found it was ninety feet deep.

29 Fearing that we would be dashed against the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daylight.

30 In an attempt to escape from the ship, the sailors let the lifeboat down into the sea, pretending they were going to lower some anchors from the bow.

31 Then Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, "Unless these men stay with the ship, you cannot be saved."

Acts 27:29 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

27:29Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

27:29Then fearing lest we should fall upon rough places, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

27:29And fearing lest haply we should be cast ashore on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for the day.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:29and fearing lest we should be cast on rocky places, casting four anchors out of the stern, they wished that day were come.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

27:29And fearing lest haply we should be cast ashore on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for the day.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:29Then fearing lest we should fall upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:29Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

27:29and fearing lest on rough places we may fall, out of the stern having cast four anchors, they were wishing day to come.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

27:29Then fearing lest we should have fallen on rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.