Acts 27:42
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Acts 27:42
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The soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none {of them} would swim away and escape;
Acts 27:43
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but the centurion, wanting to bring Paul safely through, kept them from their intention, and commanded that those who could swim should jump overboard first and get to land,
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