The next day, as gale-force winds continued to batter the ship, the crew began throwing the cargo overboard.
Parallel translations
- WEB As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard.
- KJV And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;
- BSB We were tossed so violently that the next day the men began to jettison the cargo.
- NKJV And because we were exceedingly tempest-tossed, the next day they lightened the ship.
- NASB The next day as we were being violently tossed by the storm, they began to jettison the cargo;
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Quick answer
Battered by the storm, the next day they begin throwing cargo overboard.
Overview
To lighten the foundering ship they jettison its load, sacrificing valuable goods to survive. The mounting losses fulfill part of Paul's earlier warning. The scene of desperate men casting away their treasure underscores human helplessness and sets up the contrast with the hope God will give through Paul.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Jonah 1:5Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.
- Acts 27:38When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.
- Matt 16:26For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
- Heb 12:1Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
- Acts 27:19On the third day, they threw out the ship’s tackle with their own hands.
- Luke 16:8“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.
- Phil 3:7–8However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.
- Ps 107:27They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.
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