Acts 27:39-41

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The Ship Is Destroyed

³⁹ When daylight came, they did not recognize the land, but they saw a bay with a beach and wanted to sail the ship ·to [up on] the beach if they could. ⁴⁰ So they ·cut the ropes to [^Lcast off] the anchors and left ·the anchors [^Lthem] in the sea. At the same time, they untied the ropes that were holding the rudders. Then they raised the front sail into the wind and sailed toward the beach. ⁴¹ But the ship hit a ·sandbank [reef; shoal; or cross-current; ^Lplace of two seas]. The front of the ship stuck there and could not move, but the ·back of the ship [stern] began to break up from the big waves.