Acts 27:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁸ So they took soundings and found twenty fathoms; a little farther on they took soundings again and found 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 peoples of obscure speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.

Acts 27:27

When the fourteenth night had come, as we were drifting across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land.

Acts 27:29

Fearing that we might run on the rocks, they let down four anchors from the stern and prayed for day to come.