King James Version (KJV)
Acts 27:17
“Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.”
Verse in context — Acts 27
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And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let [her] drive.
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And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat:
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Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.
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And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next [day] they lightened the ship;
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And the third [day] we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.
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