Acts 27:30 - Easy To Read Version

³⁰ Some of the sailors wanted to leave the ship. They lowered the lifeboat to the water. The sailors wanted the other men to think that they were throwing more anchors from the front of the ship.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁰ And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁰ And as the sailors were trying to escape [secretly] from the ship and were lowering the small boat into the sea, pretending that they were going to lay out anchors from the bow,

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁰ And as the sailors were seeking to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, under color as though they would lay out anchors from the foreship,

Common English Bible

³⁰ The sailors tried to abandon the ship by lowering the lifeboat into the sea, pretending they were going to lower anchors from the bow.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁰ Yet truly, the sailors were seeking a way to flee from the ship, for they had lowered a lifeboat into the sea, on the pretext that they were attempting to cast anchors from the bow of the ship.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁰ But as the shipmen sought to fly out of the ship, having let down the boat into the sea, under colour, as though they would have cast anchors out of the forepart of the ship,

Acts 27:30 Tagairtí Cros

Acts 27:16

We went below a small island named Cauda. Then {\cf2\super [512]} we were able to bring in the lifeboat, but it was very hard to do.

Acts 27:27

On the fourteenth night we were floating around in the Adriatic Sea. {\cf2\super [516]} The sailors thought we were close to land.

Acts 27:29

The sailors were afraid that we would hit the rocks. So they threw four anchors into the water. Then they prayed for daylight to come.

Acts 27:31

But Paul told the army officer {\cf2\super [517]} and the other soldiers, “If these men do not stay in the ship, then your lives cannot be saved!”

Acts 27:32

So the soldiers cut the ropes and let the lifeboat fall into the water.