10. Saying to them, "Anashim, I see that the voyage will be hardship and much peril, not only of the cargo and the oniyah, but also of our lives."
11. But the centurion was persuaded by the pilot and the owner rather than by the dvarim of Rav Sha'ul.
12. But the port being unfavorably situated for spending the winter, the majority decided to set sail from there, if somehow they could reach Phoenix to spend the winter. It was a harbor of Crete, facing southwest and northwest.
13. And a gentle south wind began to blow, and they thought they could attain their matarah (objective), so they weighed anchor and they were sailing past Crete, close by the shore.
14. After not much time a violent, typhoon force wind rushed down from Crete, the so called Euraquilo, the Northeaster.