Gevurot 27:42-44

Orthodox Jewish Bible

⁴² Now the kesher (plan, plot) of the chaiyalim was that they should kill the prisoners, lest anyone, having swum away, should escape.

⁴³ But the centurion, desiring to save Rav Sha’ul, kept them from carrying out the kesher, and he ordered the ones able to swim to throw themselves overboard first and to make for the shore.

⁴⁴ As for the rest, some were on planks, others on pieces from the oniyah. And so everyone was brought safely onto the land.