Acts 27:28 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²⁸ So, they tested for depth and found [they were in] 120 feet [of water]. Then a little later they tested again and found it to be 90 feet.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ So they took soundings and found twenty fathoms, and a little farther on they sounded again and found fifteen fathoms.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

²⁸ They dropped a weighted line to take soundings and found the water to be about one hundred twenty feet deep. After proceeding a little farther, we took soundings again and found the water to be about ninety feet deep.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ And upon dropping a weight, they found a depth of twenty paces. And some distance from there, they found a depth of fifteen paces.

Acts 27:28 Cross References

Acts 27:27

When the fourteenth night came, and while we were being tossed around [helplessly] in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the crew suspected they were nearing land.

Acts 27:29

So, fearing the possibility of being run aground on a rocky shore, they dropped four anchors from the stern and longed for daylight [to come].