16 Et ayant été poussés audessous d'une petite isle, appelée Clauda, nous eûmes bien de la peine d'être maîtres de la chaloupe.

17 Mais l'ayant tirée à nous, les matelots mirent en usage toutes sortes de moyens, liant le vaisseau par-dessous avec des cordes; et comme ils craignoient d'être jetés sur des bancs de sable, ils abaissèrent le mât, et se laissèrent emporter par le vent.

18 Comme nous étions fortement battus de la tempête, le jour suivant ils jetèrent une partie de la charge du vaisseau dans la mer.

19 Le troisième jour, nous jetâmes de nos propres mains les agrès de rechange du vaisseau.

20 Pendant plusieurs jours, ni le soleil ni les étoiles ne parurent point, et la tempête étoit toujours si violente, que nous perdîmes toute espérance de nous

16 And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat;

25 C'est pourquoi, mes amis, prenez courage; car j'ai cette

17 Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.

18 And we, being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship.

19 And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.

20 And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.

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confiance en Dieu, que la chose arrivera de la manière qu'il m'a été dit:

26 Mais il faut que nous soyons jetés sur quelque isle.

27 La quatorzième nuit étant venue, comme nous étions jetés çà et là dans la mer Adriatique, les matelots, vers minuit, estimèrent qu'ils approchoient de quelque terre.

28 Et ayant jeté la sonde, ils trouvèrent vingt brasses; puis étant passés un peu plus loin, ils la jetèrent encore, et ils trouvèrent quinze brasses.

29 Alors craignant de donner contre quelque écueil, ayant jeté quatre ancres de la poupe, ils attendoient que le jour vînt.

30 Mais comme les matelots cherchoient à se sauver du vaisseau, et qu'ils mettoient la chaloupe à la mer, sous prétexte de jeter les ancres du côté de la proue;

31 Paul dit au centenier et aux soldats: Si ces gens ne demeurent dans le vaisseau, vous ne sauriez vous sauver.

32 Alors les soldats coupèrent les cordes de la chaloupe, et la laissèrent tomber.

33 Et en attendant que le jour vînt, Paul les exhorta tous à prendre de la nourriture, en leur disant: C'est aujourd'hui le quatorzième jour que vous êtes sans manger, et que vous n'avez rien pris, en attendant que le tems change.

34 Je vous exhorte donc à prendre de la nourriture, car cela est nécessaire pour votre conservation; et il ne tombera pas un cheveu de la tête d'aucun de vous.

35 Ayant dit cela, il prit du pain, et rendit grâces à Dieu

26 Howbeit, we must be cast upon a certain island.

27 But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country:

28 And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fif teen fathoms.

29 Then fearing lest they should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.

30 And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,

31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.

32 Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.

33 And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.

34 Wherefore I pray you to take some meat; for this is for your health for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.

35 And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave

thanks to God in the presence of them all and when he had broken it, he began to eat.

36 Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat.

37 And we were in all in the ship, two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.

38 And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.

39 And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.

40 And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder-bands, and hoised up and hoised up the main-sail to the wind, and made toward shore.

41 And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the fore part stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.

42 And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out and escape.

43 But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land:

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44 And the rest, some boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.