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Twentieth Century New Testament
The advice of the soldiers was that the prisoners should be killed, for fear that any of them should swim away and make their escape.
New American Standard Bible
The soldiers’ plan was to
King James Version
And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
Holman Bible
The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners so that no one could swim away and escape.
International Standard Version
The soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners to keep them from swimming ashore and escaping,
A Conservative Version
And a decision of the soldiers developed that they should kill the prisoners, lest any man, having swam away, might escape.
American Standard Version
And the soldiers counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them'should swim out, and escape.
Amplified
The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would dive overboard and swim [to land] and escape;
An Understandable Version
[Meanwhile] the soldiers had decided to kill the prisoners so that none of them would swim away and escape.
Anderson New Testament
The soldiers counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest some of them should swim out and escape.
Bible in Basic English
Then the armed men were for putting the prisoners to death, so that no one would get away by swimming.
Common New Testament
The soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim away and escape.
Daniel Mace New Testament
the soldiers propos'd to dispatch the prisoners, for fear any of them should swim for their lives; but the centurion,
Darby Translation
And the counsel of the soldiers was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one should swim off and escape.
Godbey New Testament
And the counsel of the soldiers was that they should kill the prisoners, lest some one, having outswum them, might escape:
Goodspeed New Testament
The soldiers proposed to kill the prisoners, for fear some of them might swim ashore and escape,
John Wesley New Testament
And the counsel of the soldiers was, to kill the prisoners, lest any one should swim away and escape.
Julia Smith Translation
And the soldiers' counsel was that they kill the prisoners, lest any, having swum away, may escape.
King James 2000
And the soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Now the plan of the soldiers was that they would kill the prisoners lest any escape [by] swimming away,
Modern King James verseion
And the mind of the soldiers was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out and escape.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners: lest any of them, when he had swum out, should flee away.
Moffatt New Testament
Now the soldiers resolved to kill the prisoners, in case any of them swam off and escaped;
Montgomery New Testament
Now the soldiers were planning to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim off and so escape.
NET Bible
Now the soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners so that none of them would escape by swimming away.
New Heart English Bible
The soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.
Noyes New Testament
And on the part of the soldiers there was a plan to kill the prisoners, lest any one should swim out and escape.
Sawyer New Testament
And the design of the soldiers was to kill the prisoners, that none might escape by swimming;
The Emphasized Bible
Now, the soldiers counsel, turned out to be, that they should kill, the prisoners, lest any one should swim out and escape;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Then the soldiers' design was to have murdered the prisoners, lest any of them should swim ashore and escape.
Webster
And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
Weymouth New Testament
Now the soldiers recommended that the prisoners should be killed, for fear some one of them might swim ashore and effect his escape.
Williams New Testament
The soldiers planned to kill the prisoners, to keep any of them from swimming ashore and escaping,
World English Bible
The soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.
Worrell New Testament
Now it was the plan of the soldiers to kill the prisoners, lest any one, swimming out, might escape.
Worsley New Testament
And the counsel of the soldiers was to kill the prisoners, least any of them should swim out and escape.
Youngs Literal Translation
And the soldiers' counsel was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one having swam out should escape,
Themes
Mariners (sailors) » Perils of
Paul » The ship is wrecked, and all on board take refuge on the island of melita (malta)
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Easton
Fausets
Word Count of 37 Translations in Acts 27:42
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Shipwreck
41 They got, however, into a kind of channel, and there ran the ship aground. The bows stuck fast and could not be moved, while the stern began breaking up under the strain. 42 The advice of the soldiers was that the prisoners should be killed, for fear that any of them should swim away and make their escape. 43 But the Roman Officer, anxious to save Paul, prevented their carrying out their intention, and ordered that those who could swim should be the first to jump into the sea and try to reach the shore;
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Names
Cross References
Mark 15:15-20
And Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas to them, and, after scourging Jesus, gave him up to be crucified.
Luke 23:40-41
But the other rebuked him. "Have not you," he said, "any fear of God, now that you are under the same sentence?
Acts 12:19
And, when Herod had made further search for him and failed to find him, he closely questioned the Guard, and ordered them away to execution. Then he went down from Judea to stay at Caesarea.