When it was day, they didn’t recognize the land, but they noticed a certain bay with a beach, and they decided to try to drive the ship onto it.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    When it was day, they didn’t recognize the land, but they noticed a certain bay with a beach, and they decided to try to drive the ship onto it.

  • TYNDALE Tyndale New Testament (1534)

    When that was daye they knew not the lande but they spied a certayne haven with a banke into the which they were mynded (yf that were possible) to thrust in the ship.

  • GNV Geneva Bible (1599)

    And when it was day, they knewe not the countrey, but they spied a certaine creeke with a banke, into the which they were minded (if it were possible) to thrust in the ship.

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Cross-references (1)

Passages linked to Acts 27:39 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Acts 28:1 When we had escaped, then they learned that the island was called Malta.

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Explain this verse (19 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Then are tempests most of all to be feared…

Then are tempests most of all to be feared and looked for, when the port or haven is nearest.

A creek is a sea within land, as the Adriatic Sea, and the Persian Sea.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 39 And when it was day, they knew not…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain They knew not the land; in so long and…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And when they had taken up the anchors,.... The…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain They did not know the land - Which they…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 39. They knew not the land] And therefore…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Act 27:39-41. And when it was day — And…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain They knew not the land - They had been…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain when it was day they knew not the land--This…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain Stranding, wreck, and escape, Act_27:39-44.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 39. they knew not the land] We are not…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (39) They knew not the land.—It was, of course,…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Perceived for discovered, A.V.; bay with a beach for…
B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 39–44. They discovered a certain creek with a shore.…
William B. Godbey 1900 · Public Domain 39. At day dawn, behold! the first land they…
J. W. McGarvey 1914 · Public Domain 39-41. All was now done that could be, until…
Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain The escape from the ship:
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 a large area of water partly surrounded by land
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 27:39-41 They ran the ship aground on a shoal…

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