18 And because[a] we were violently battered by the storm, on the next day they began[b] jettisoning the cargo,[c] 19 and on the third day they threw overboard the gear of the ship with their own hands. 20 But when[d] neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and with not a little bad weather confronting us,[e] finally all hope was abandoned that we would be saved.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 27:18 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the causal genitive absolute participle (“battered by the storm”)
  2. Acts 27:18 Literally “they began to carry out”
  3. Acts 27:18 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  4. Acts 27:20 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“appeared”)
  5. Acts 27:20 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation