34. Therefore I beg you to take some food; for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads.”
35. When he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, then he broke it and began to eat.
36. Then they all cheered up, and they also took food.
37. In all, we were two hundred and seventy-six souls on the ship.
38. When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.
39. When it was day, they didn’t recognise the land, but they noticed a certain bay with a beach, and they decided to try to drive the ship onto it.
40. Casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time untying the rudder ropes. Hoisting up the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach.