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Acts 27:38

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And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.

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  1. Acts 27:36

    Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat.

  2. Acts 27:37

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

  3. Acts 27:39

    And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.

  4. Acts 27:40

    And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.

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