Acts 27:28

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September 17, 2025

KJV

And sounded, and found [it] twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found [it] fifteen fathoms.

BSB

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.

WEB

They took soundings, and found twenty fathoms. After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.

YLT

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

F.O.G Original

(28) They cast soundings and found it to be 20 fathoms (c. 37m) and a little further on they took another sounding and found it to be 15 fathoms (c. 18m).

F.O.G

(28) They cast soundings and found it to be 20 fathoms (c. 37m) and a little further on they took another sounding and found it to be 15 fathoms (c. 18m).

F.O.G MSG

²⁸They took soundings and found that the water was 120 feetᶠ deep. A short time later they took soundings again and found it was 90 feet deep.

Footnotes:

²⁷²⁸ᶠ 120 feet: Literally “twenty fathoms” in the original Greek. A fathom equals about 6 feet, the span of a man’s outstretched arms.