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New American Standard Bible (1995)

Acts 27:37

All of us in the ship were two hundred and seventy-six persons.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commerce;   Mariners (Sailors);   Paul;   Prophecy;   Ship;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Crete;   Euroclydon;   Julius;   Melita;   Ship;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Paul;   Ship;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Person, Personhood;   Soul;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Ordination;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Centurion;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Italy;   Nero;   Number;   Ships and Boats;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Ship ;   Soul;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Melita;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ship;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Corinth;   Lycia;   Number;   Ships and Boats;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Prayer;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
In all there were 276 of us on the ship.
King James Version (1611)
And we were in all, in the ship, two hundred, threescore and sixteene soules.
King James Version
And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.
English Standard Version
(We were in all 276 persons in the ship.)
New American Standard Bible
We were 276 people on the ship in all.
New Century Version
There were two hundred seventy-six people on the ship.
Amplified Bible
All told there were two hundred and seventy-six of us aboard the ship.
Legacy Standard Bible
And all of us in the ship were 276 persons.
Berean Standard Bible
Altogether there were 276 of us on board.
Contemporary English Version
There were 276 people on the ship,
Complete Jewish Bible
Altogether there were 276 of us on board the ship.
Darby Translation
And we were in the ship, all the souls, two hundred and seventy-six.
Easy-to-Read Version
(There were 276 people on the ship.)
Geneva Bible (1587)
Nowe we were in the ship in all two hundreth three score and sixteene soules.
George Lamsa Translation
We were in all, on board, two hundred and seventy-six persons.
Good News Translation
There was a total of 276 of us on board.
Lexham English Bible
(Now we were in all two hundred seventy six persons on the ship.)
Literal Translation
And we were, all the souls in the ship, two hundred seventy six.
American Standard Version
And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.
Bible in Basic English
And we were, in the ship, two hundred and seventy-six persons.
Hebrew Names Version
We were in all in the ship two hundred seventy-six souls.
International Standard Version
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Etheridge Translation
But we were in the ship two hundred and seventy and six souls.
Murdock Translation
And there were of us in the ship two hundred and seventy-six souls.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And we were altogether in the shippe, two hudred threescore & sixteene soules.
English Revised Version
And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.
World English Bible
We were in all in the ship two hundred seventy-six souls.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And we were in the ship in all, two hundred and seventy-six souls.
Weymouth's New Testament
There were 276 of us, crew and passengers, all told.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And we weren alle men in the schip, two hundrid seuenti and sexe.
Update Bible Version
And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.
Webster's Bible Translation
And we were in all in the ship two hundred and seventy six souls.
New English Translation
(We were in all two hundred seventy-six persons on the ship.)
New King James Version
And in all we were two hundred and seventy-six persons on the ship.
New Living Translation
all 276 of us who were on board.
New Life Bible
All together there were 276 of us on the ship.
New Revised Standard
(We were in all two hundred seventy-six persons in the ship.)
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now we were, in the ship, in all, about seventy-six souls.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.
Revised Standard Version
(We were in all two hundred and seventy-six persons in the ship.)
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
We were all together in ye ship two hundred thre score and sixtene soules.
Young's Literal Translation
(and we were -- all the souls in the ship -- two hundred, seventy and six),
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
We were all together in the shippe two hundreth thre score and sixtene soules.
Mace New Testament (1729)
the whole number then on board being two hundred and seventy six.
Simplified Cowboy Version
There were 276 people who ate that early morning.

Contextual Overview

21 When they had gone a long time without food, then Paul stood up in their midst and said, "Men, you ought to have followed my advice and not to have set sail from Crete and incurred this damage and loss. 22 "Yet now I urge you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship. 23 "For this very night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood before me, 24 saying, 'Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar; and behold, God has granted you all those who are sailing with you.' 25 "Therefore, keep up your courage, men, for I believe God that it will turn out exactly as I have been told. 26 "But we must run aground on a certain island." 27 But when the fourteenth night came, as we were being driven about in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors began to surmise that they were approaching some land. 28 They took soundings and found it to be twenty fathoms; and a little farther on they took another sounding and found it to be fifteen fathoms. 29 Fearing that we might run aground somewhere on the rocks, they cast four anchors from the stern and wished for daybreak. 30 But as the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and had let down the ship's boat into the sea, on the pretense of intending to lay out anchors from the bow,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

two: Acts 27:24

souls: Acts 2:41, Acts 7:14, Romans 13:1, 1 Peter 3:20

Cross-References

Genesis 25:23
The LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb; And two peoples will be separated from your body; And one people shall be stronger than the other; And the older shall serve the younger."
Genesis 27:10
"Then you shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death."
Genesis 27:12
"Perhaps my father will feel me, then I will be as a deceiver in his sight, and I will bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing."
Genesis 27:28
Now may God give you of the dew of heaven, And of the fatness of the earth, And an abundance of grain and new wine;
Genesis 27:29
May peoples serve you, And nations bow down to you; Be master of your brothers, And may your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be those who curse you, And blessed be those who bless you."
2 Samuel 8:14
He put garrisons in Edom. In all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became servants to David. And the LORD helped David wherever he went.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And we were in all in the ship,.... Reckoning the master and owner of the ship, and the centurion and the soldiers, and the apostle and his company, with whatsoever passengers there might be:

two hundred and threescore and sixteen souls; the Alexandrian copy reads, "two hundred seventy and five"; and the Ethiopic version, "two hundred and six". This account of the number is given to show, that the historian, who was one of them, had an exact knowledge of all in the ship; and this being recorded before the account of the shipwreck, may serve to make the truth of the relation the more to be believed that none of them perished, since their number was so precisely known; and makes it the more marvellous, that such a number of men should be saved, and in a shipwreck; and shows, that there must be a wonderful interposition of divine power to bring them all safe to land.


 
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