28They took soundings, and found twenty fathoms. After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.


In Context

25 Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.

26 But we must run aground on a certain island.|

27 But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land.

28 They took soundings, and found twenty fathoms. After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.

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

30 As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow,

Acts 27:28 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

27:28And sounded, and found [it] twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found [it] fifteen fathoms.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

27:28They 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

27:28Who also sounding, found twenty fathoms; and going on a little further, they found fifteen fathoms.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

27:28and they sounded, and found twenty fathoms; and after a little space, they sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:28and having sounded found twenty fathoms, and having gone a little farther and having again sounded they found fifteen fathoms;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

27:28and they sounded, and found twenty fathoms: and after a little space, they sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:28And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

27:28and having sounded they found twenty fathoms, and having gone a little farther, and again having sounded, they found fifteen fathoms,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

27:28And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.