33 Just before daybreak, Paul urged everyone to eat. He said, "This is the fourteenth day you’ve lived in suspense, and you’ve not had even a bite to eat.
34 I urge you to take some food. Your health depends on it. None of you will lose a single hair from his head."
35 After he said these things, he took bread, gave thanks to God in front of them all, then broke it and began to eat.
36 Everyone was encouraged and took some food. (
37 In all, there were two hundred seventy-six of us on the ship.)
38 When they had eaten as much as they wanted, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea.
39 In the morning light they saw a bay with a sandy beach. They didn’t know what land it was, but they thought they might possibly be able to run the ship aground.