Acts 27:28

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.

Berean Standard Bible
Other translations

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.

American Standard Version

and they sounded, and found twenty fathoms; and after a little space, they sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms.

Geneva Bible 1599

And sounded, and found it twentie fathoms: and when they had gone a litle further, they sounded againe, and found fifteene fathoms.

Darby Translation

and having sounded found twenty fathoms, and having gone a little farther and having again sounded they found fifteen fathoms;

Young's Literal Translation

and having sounded they found twenty fathoms, and having gone a little farther, and again having sounded, they found fifteen fathoms,

Bible in Basic English

And they let down the lead, and saw that the sea was a hundred and twenty feet deep; and after a little time they did it again and it was ninety feet.

In context

27On the fourteenth night we were still being driven across the Adriatic Sea. About midnight the sailors sensed they were approaching land.

29Fearing that we would run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daybreak.

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