Acts 27:32

The NET Bible®

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

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.

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

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 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 Since many of them had no desire to eat, Paul stood up among them and said, "Men, you should have listened to me and not put out to sea from Crete, thus avoiding this damage and loss. ²² And now I advise you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only the ship will be lost. ²³ For last night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve came to me ²⁴ and said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul! You must stand before Caesar, and God has graciously granted you the safety of all who are sailing with you.' ²⁵ Therefore keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will be just as I have been told. ²⁶ But we must run aground on some island." ²⁷ When the fourteenth night had come, while we were being driven across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected they were approaching some land. ²⁸ They took soundings and found the water was twenty fathoms deep; when they had sailed a little farther they took soundings again and found it was fifteen fathoms deep. ²⁹ Because they were afraid that we would run aground on the rocky coast, they threw out four anchors from the stern and wished for day to appear. ³⁰ Then when the sailors tried to escape from the ship and were lowering the ship's boat into the sea, pretending that they were going to put out anchors from the bow,

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
He went to his father and said, "My father!" Isaac replied, "Here I am. Which are you, 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.