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17 After the men brought the lifeboat in, they tied ropes around the ship to hold it together. The men were afraid that the ship would hit the sandbanks of Syrtis. So they lowered the sail and let the wind carry the ship.

18 The next day the storm was blowing against us so hard that the men threw some things out of the ship.[a] 19 A day later they threw out the ship’s equipment.

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  1. Acts 27:18 threw some things … ship The men did this to make the ship lighter so that it would not sink easily.

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