Acts 27:18
And we were being violently tossed by the storm, so much so that the next day they were throwing the cargo overboard.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;
In Context
19And on the Yom Shlishi, with their own hands, they threw out the tackle of the oniyah.
Cross References
Psalms 107:27They reeled and staggered like a shikkor, 1 and were at their witʼs end. 1
Matthew 16:26For what will a man be benefited if he acquires the whole world and forfeits his neshamah, or what will a man give in exchange for his neshamah?
Luke 16:8And the Baal Bayit praised the unrighteous sochen because he acted with chochmah. Because the Bnei HaOlam HaZeh have more seichel in dealing with their own generation than the Bnei HaOhr. + 16:8 Ps 17:14; 18:26
Acts 27:38And having eaten enough okhel (food), they were lightening the oniyah by throwing the wheat overboard into the sea.
Hebrews 12:1So, therefore, als (since) we have surrounding us so great an Anan Edim (Cloud of Witnesses), let us also lay aside every weighty impediment and easily ensnaring averos, and let us run with endurance and savlanut the race set before us,
Matthew Henry on Acts 27:13-21
Paul's Voyage towards Rome. 12 And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west. 13 And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by Crete. 14 But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon. 15 And when the ship was… Read the whole commentary →