Acts 27:42

“And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.”
King James Version (KJV)

Other Translations of Acts 27:42

And the souldiers counsel was to kil the prisoners, lest any of them should swimme out, and escape.
- King James Version (1611) - Compare to scan of original Acts chapter 27

The soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none {of them} would swim away and escape;
- New American Standard Version (1995)

And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any `of them' should swim out, and escape.
- American Standard Version (1901)

Then the armed men were for putting the prisoners to death, so that no one would get away by swimming.
- Basic English Bible

And [the] counsel of the soldiers was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one should swim off and escape.
- Darby Bible

And the soldiers' counsel was, that they should kill the prisoners, lest any of them, swimming out, should escape.
- Douay Rheims Bible

And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
- Webster's Bible

Now the soldiers recommended that the prisoners should be killed, for fear some one of them might swim ashore and effect his escape.
- Weymouth Bible

The soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.
- World English Bible

And counsel of the kniytis was, to sle men that weren in warde, lest ony schulde ascape, whanne he hadde swymmed out.
- Wycliffe Bible

And the soldiers' counsel was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one having swam out should escape,
- Youngs Literal Bible

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