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Acts 27:36-38
New English Translation
Acts 27:36-38
New English Translation
36 So all of them were encouraged and took food themselves. 37 (We were in all 276[a] persons on the ship.)[b] 38 When they had eaten enough to be satisfied,[c] they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat[d] into the sea.
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- Acts 27:37 tc One early ms (B) and an early version (sa) read “about seventy-six.” For discussion of how this variant probably arose, see F. F. Bruce, The Acts of the Apostles, 465.
- Acts 27:37 sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.
- Acts 27:38 tn Or “When they had eaten their fill.”
- Acts 27:38 tn Or “grain.”
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