Acts 27:28 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁸ and they sounded, and found twenty fathoms: and after a little space, they sounded 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 a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, if I sent thee to them, they would hearken unto thee.

Acts 27:27

But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven to and fro in the sea of Adria, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some country;

Acts 27:29

And fearing lest haply we should be cast ashore on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for the day.