Acts 27:32

The Darby Translation

Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat and let her fall.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then the soldiers cut the ropes holding the skiff and let it drop away.

King James Version (1611)
Then the souldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.

King James Version
Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.

English Standard Version
Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the ship's boat and let it go.

New American Standard Bible
Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the ship's boat and let it fall away.

New Century Version
So the soldiers cut the ropes and let the lifeboat fall into the water.

Amplified Bible
Then the soldiers cut away the ropes that held the skiff and let it fall and drift away.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the ship's boat and let it fall away.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the ship's boat and let it fall away.

Berean Standard Bible
So the soldiers cut the ropes to the lifeboat and set it adrift.

Contemporary English Version
The soldiers then cut the ropes that held the lifeboat and let it fall into the sea.

Complete Jewish Bible
Then the soldiers cut the ropes holding the lifeboat and let it go.

Easy-to-Read Version
So the soldiers cut the ropes and let the lifeboat fall into the water.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the souldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let it fall away.

George Lamsa Translation
Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the ship''s boat from the ship and let her drift.

Good News Translation
So the soldiers cut the ropes that held the boat and let it go.

Lexham English Bible
Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the ship's boat and let it fall away.

Literal Translation
Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let it fall.

American Standard Version
Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.

Bible in Basic English
Then the armed men, cutting the cords of the boat, let her go.

Hebrew Names Version
Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.

International Standard Version
Then the soldiers cut the ropes that held the lifeboat and set it adrift.

Etheridge Translation
Then cut the soldiers the cable of the boat from the ship, and let her drive.

Murdock Translation
Then the soldiers cut the boat rope from the ship, and let the boat go adrift.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then the souldyers cut of the rope of the boate, and let it fall away.

English Revised Version
Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.

World English Bible
Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let it fall off.

Weymouth's New Testament
Then the soldiers cut the ropes of the ship's boat and let her fall off.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thanne knyytis kittiden awei the cordis of the litil boot, and suffriden it to falle awei.

Update Bible Version
Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.

New English Translation
Then the soldiers cut the ropes of the ship's boat and let it drift away.

New King James Version
Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the skiff and let it fall off.

New Living Translation
So the soldiers cut the ropes to the lifeboat and let it drift away.

New Life Bible
Then the soldiers cut the ropes and let the boat fall into the sea.

New Revised Standard
Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat and set it adrift.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then, the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat and let her fall off.

Revised Standard Version
Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let it go.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Then the soudiers cut of the rope of the bote and let it fall awaye.

Young's Literal Translation
then the soldiers did cut off the ropes of the boat, and suffered it to fall off.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then the soudyers cut of the rope from the bote, and let it fall.

Mace New Testament (1729)
and immediately the soldiers chopt the cable, and set the boat adrift.

Simplified Cowboy Version
The soldiers ran and cut the ropes before the sailors could climb down and make their getaway.

Contextual Overview

²¹ And when they had been a long while without taking food, Paul then standing up in the midst of them said, Ye ought, O men, to have hearkened to me, and not have made sail from Crete and have gained this disaster and loss. ²² And now I exhort you to be of good courage, for there shall be no loss at all of life of [any] of you, only of the ship. ²³ For an angel of the God, whose I am and whom I serve, stood by me this night, ²⁴ saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must stand before Caesar; and behold, God has granted to thee all those that sail with thee. ²⁵ Wherefore be of good courage, men, for I believe God that thus it shall be, as it has been said to me. ²⁶ But we must be cast ashore on a certain island. ²⁷ And when the fourteenth night was come, we being driven about in Adria, towards the middle of the night the sailors supposed that some land neared them, ²⁸ and having sounded found twenty fathoms, and having gone a little farther and having again sounded they found fifteen fathoms; ²⁹ and fearing lest we should be cast on rocky places, casting four anchors out of the stern, they wished that day were come. ³⁰ But the sailors wishing to flee out of the ship, and having let down the boat into the sea under pretext of being about to carry out anchors from the prow,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Luke 16:8, Philippians 3:7-9

Reciprocal: Acts 27:30 - the boat

Cross-References

Genesis 27:18
And he came to his father, and said, My father! And he said, Here am I: who art thou, my son?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat,.... With which it had been fastened to the sides of the ship, and by which the mariners were letting it down, in order to get into it, and go off:

and let her fall off; from the sides of the ship into the sea, and so prevented the shipmen quitting the ship; for now they gave more credit to Paul than to them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Cut off the ropes ... - It is evident that the mariners had not yet got on board the boat. They had let it down into the sea Acts 27:30, and were about to go on board. By thus cutting the ropes which fastened the boat to the ship, and letting it go, all possibility of their fleeing from the ship was taken away, and they were compelled to remain on board.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 32. The soldiers cut off the ropes — These were probably the only persons who dared to have opposed the will of the sailors: this very circumstance is an additional proof of the accuracy of St. Luke.