Acts 27:38
Good News Translation
After everyone had eaten enough, they lightened the ship by throwing all the wheat into the sea.

New Revised Standard Version
After they had satisfied their hunger, they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.

Contemporary English Version
and after everyone had eaten, they threw the cargo of wheat into the sea to make the ship lighter.

New American Bible
After they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, casting the wheat into the sea.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, casting the wheat into the sea.

they lightened.

Acts 27:18,19 And we, being mightily tossed with the tempest, the next day they lightened the ship. . . .

Job 2:4 And Satan answered, and said: Skin for skin; and all that a man hath, he will give for his life:

Jonah 1:5 But the Lord sent a great wind to the sea: and a great tempest was raised in the sea, and the ship was in danger to be broken.

Matthew 6:25 Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment?

Matthew 16:26 For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?

Hebrews 12:1 And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us:

The wheat.

Context
The Shipwreck
37And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls. 38And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, casting the wheat into the sea. 39And when it was day, they knew not the land. But they discovered a certain creek that had a shore, into which they minded, if they could, to thrust in the ship.…
Cross References
Jonah 1:5
But the Lord sent a great wind to the sea: and a great tempest was raised in the sea, and the ship was in danger to be broken.

Matthew 4:18
And Jesus walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea (for they were fishers).

Acts 27:18
And we, being mightily tossed with the tempest, the next day they lightened the ship.

Acts 27:37
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