Passage

Acts 27.44

Book: Acts · NASB95

Immediate context (±2 verses)

ASV (ASV)

"42. And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape. 43. But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stayed them from their purpose; and commanded that they who could swim should cast themselves overboard, and get first to the land;"

"44. and the rest, some on planks, and some on other things from the ship. And so it came to pass, that they all escaped safe to the land." (Acts 27:42-44, ASV)

WEB (WEB)

"42. The soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape. 43. But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land;"

"44. and the rest should follow, some on planks, and some on other things from the ship. So they all escaped safely to the land." (Acts 27:42-44, WEB)

KJV (KJV)

"42. And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape. 43. But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land:"

"44. And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land." (Acts 27:42-44, KJV)

YLT (YLT)

"42. And the soldiers' counsel was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one having swam out should escape, 43. but the centurion, wishing to save Paul, hindered them from the counsel, and did command those able to swim, having cast themselves out first, to get unto the land,"

"44. and the rest, some indeed upon boards, and some upon certain things of the ship; and thus it came to pass that all came safe unto the land." (Acts 27:42-44, YLT)

Setting

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Theological reading

Patristic / early-church-father exegesis, to be added.

Key words

Theologically-loaded Greek or Hebrew words in this verse may have entries in the lexicon. Curated to roughly 100 contested terms across the corpus, not every word; see Lexicon Roadmap.

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Quoted in

G4982 - sozo

Why these four translations

ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the most literal English translations available (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the public domain in the United States, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance.

The four:

ASV (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
WEB (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
KJV (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
YLT (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.

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