31. Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay with the ship, you cannot be saved.”
32. Then the soldiers cut the ropes of the ship’s boat and let it drift away.
33. As day was about to dawn, Paul urged them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day you have been in suspense and have gone without food; you have eaten nothing.
34. Therefore I urge you to take some food, for this is important for your survival. For not one of you will lose a hair from his head.”
35. After he said this, Paul took bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all, broke it, and began to eat.
36. So all of them were encouraged and took food themselves.
37. (We were in all two hundred seventy-six persons on the ship.)
38. When they had eaten enough to be satisfied, they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.
39. When day came, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, where they decided to run the ship aground if they could.
40. So they slipped the anchors and left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the linkage that bound the steering oars together. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and steered toward the beach.
41. But they encountered a patch of crosscurrents and ran the ship aground; the bow stuck fast and could not be moved, but the stern was being broken up by the force of the waves.