Acts 27:28 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²⁸ 6 Then were they all of better cheer, and they also took some meat.

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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

Ezekiel 3:6

4 The spirit also lifted me, and took me up: and I went away in bitterness in the indignation of my spirit: for the hand of the Lord was with me, strengthening me.

Acts 27:27

5 And when he had said these things, taking bread, he gave thanks to God in the sight of them all; and when he had broken it, he began to eat.

Acts 27:29

7 And we were in all in the ship, two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.