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Acts 27:28
Acts 27:28 is verse 28 of Acts chapter 27, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
They took soundings and found that the water was twenty fathoms deep. Going a little farther, they took another set of soundings that read fifteen fathoms.
20 fathoms is approximately 120 feet or 36.6 meters.
15 fathoms is approximately 90 feet or 27.4 meters.
King James Version
And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.
World English Bible
They took soundings and found twenty fathoms. After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.
20 fathoms = 120 feet = 36.6 meters
15 fathoms = 90 feet = 27.4 meters
Read in context
Acts 27:26–30 · Berean Standard Bible
26 However, we must run aground on some island.”
27 On the fourteenth night we were still being driven across the Adriatic Sea. About midnight the sailors sensed they were approaching land.
28 They took soundings and found that the water was twenty fathoms deep. Going a little farther, they took another set of soundings that read fifteen fathoms.
29 Fearing that we would run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daybreak.
30 Meanwhile, the sailors attempted to escape from the ship. Pretending to lower anchors from the bow, they let the lifeboat down into the sea.
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