Acts 27:28 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Acts 27:28 Cross References

Ezekiel 3:6

not to many people of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.

Acts 27:27

But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in A´dria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country;

Acts 27:29

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