Acts 27:32
New International Version
So the soldiers cut the ropes that held the lifeboat and let it drift away.

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

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

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

Berean Literal Bible
Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the lifeboat, and allowed her to fall away.

King James Bible
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 American Standard Bible
Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the ship’s boat and let it fall away.

NASB 1995
Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the ship’s boat and let it fall away.

NASB 1977
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.

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

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

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

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the Soldiers cut the ropes of the lifeboat from the ship, and they left it adrift.

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

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then the soldiers cut the ropes that held the lifeboat and let it drift away.

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

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

Literal Standard Version
then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and permitted it to fall off.

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

New American Bible
So the soldiers cut the ropes of the dinghy and set it adrift.

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

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

New Heart English Bible
Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let it fall off.

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

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

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

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

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Shipwreck
31But Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men remain with the ship, you cannot be saved.” 32So the soldiers cut the ropes to the lifeboat and set it adrift. 33Right up to daybreak, Paul kept urging them all to eat: “Today is your fourteenth day in constant suspense, without taking any food.…

Cross References
John 2:15
So He made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle. He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

Acts 27:31
But Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, "Unless these men remain with the ship, you cannot be saved."

Acts 27:33
Right up to daybreak, Paul kept urging them all to eat: "Today is your fourteenth day in constant suspense, without taking any food.


Treasury of Scripture

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

Luke 16:8
And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

Philippians 3:7-9
But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ…

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Acts 27
1. Paul shipping toward Rome,
10. foretells of the danger of the voyage,
11. but is not believed.
14. They are tossed to and fro by a storm;
41. and suffer shipwreck;
44. yet all come safe to land.














(32) Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat.--The act had to be the work of an instant. The boat was already lowered, the sailors were on the point of leaping into it. We can picture their mortification on finding their selfish plat at once detected and frustrated. Even in this, however, there was a new element of danger. Men, under such circumstances, were likely to be sullen and unwilling workers.

Verse 32. - Cut away for cut off, A.V. Fall off (ἐκπεσεῖν, vers. 17, note, 26, and 29). The action of the soldiers in cutting the rope and letting the boat loose was very prompt, but rather rash, as the boat might have been useful in landing those on board. But it showed their implicit confidence in Paul's word.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
[So]
τότε (tote)
Adverb
Strong's 5119: Then, at that time. From ho and hote; the when, i.e. At the time that.

the
οἱ (hoi)
Article - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

soldiers
στρατιῶται (stratiōtai)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 4757: A soldier. From a presumed derivative of the same as stratia; a camper-out, i.e. A warrior.

cut
ἀπέκοψαν (apekopsan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 609: From apo and kopto; to amputate; reflexively to mutilate.

the
τὰ (ta)
Article - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

ropes
σχοινία (schoinia)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 4979: A cord, rope. Diminutive of schoinos; a rushlet, i.e. Grass-withe or tie.

to the
τῆς (tēs)
Article - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

lifeboat
σκάφης (skaphēs)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 4627: A boat; any hollow vessel. A 'skiff', or yawl.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

set
εἴασαν (eiasan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1439: To allow, permit, let alone, leave. Of uncertain affinity; to let be, i.e. Permit or leave alone.

it
αὐτὴν (autēn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Feminine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

adrift.
ἐκπεσεῖν (ekpesein)
Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active
Strong's 1601: From ek and pipto; to drop away; specially, be driven out of one's course; figuratively, to lose, become inefficient.


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