32 So the soldiers cut the ropes of the dinghy and set it adrift.
33 Until the day began to dawn, Paul kept urging all to take some food. He said, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have been waiting, going hungry and eating nothing.
34 I urge you, therefore, to take some food; it will help you survive. Not a hair of the head of anyone of you will be lost.”
35 When he said this, he took bread, gave thanks to God in front of them all, broke it, and began to eat.
36 They were all encouraged, and took some food themselves.
37 In all, there were two hundred seventy-six of us on the ship.
38 After they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.