30. When the sailors strove to abandon ship and lowered the rowboat into the sea, under the pretext of lowering anchors out of the bow,
31. Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, “Unless these sailors remain in the ship, you cannot be saved.”
32. Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the rowboat and let her fall off.
33. As day was about to dawn, Paul asked them all to eat, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have waited and continued without food, having eaten nothing.
34. So I urge you to eat. This is for your preservation, for not a hair shall fall from your head.”
35. When he had said this, he took some bread and gave thanks to God in the presence of them all. And when he had broken it he began to eat.
36. Then they were all encouraged, and they also ate food themselves.
37. In all we were two hundred and seventy-six persons on the ship.
38. When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship and threw the wheat into the sea.