Acts 27:38 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And after they had eaten sufficiently, [they proceeded] to lighten the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.

American Standard Version (1901)

And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.

Common English Bible

When they had eaten as much as they wanted, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And having been nourished with food, they lightened the ship, casting the wheat into the sea.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, casting the wheat into the sea.

Acts 27:38 Cross References

Job 2:4

And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

Ecclesiastes 3:6

a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

Jonah 1:5

Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god; and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it unto them. But Jonah was gone down into the innermost parts of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.

Matthew 16:26

For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?

Matthew 4:18

And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brethren, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishers.

Matthew 6:25

Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?

Luke 12:23

For the life is more than the food, and the body than the raiment.

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,