Acts 27:34

Therefore, I encourage you to take okhel, for it is for your deliverance, for none of you will lose a hair from your heads.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.

In Context

33Just before boker, Rav Sha'ul was urging everyone to take okhel (food), saying, Today is the 14 th day you have been held in suspense and are continuing without eating, having taken nothing.

35And having said these things, and having taken lechem, Rav Sha'ul said the HaMotzi before all, and, after the Betzi'at HaLechem, he began to eat.

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Cross References

1 Kings 1:52And Sh'lomo said, If he will show himself a ben chayil (a son of worthiness), there shall not a hair of him fall to ha'aretz; but if ra'ah (wickedness) shall be found in him, he shall die. + 1:52 Ro 6:23

Matthew 15:32And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having summoned his talmidim, said, I have rachmei shomayim for the multitudes, for already shloshah yamim (three days) they remain with me and they do not have anything they may eat, and I do not want to send them away famished, lest they might faint on the way.

Luke 12:7But even the hairs of your rosh have all been inventoried. Never fear. You are of more worth than many sparrows.

Philippians 2:5Let this mind be in you which was also in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua,

Matthew Henry on Acts 27:22-44

Paul's Voyage towards Rome. 21 But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss. 22 And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship. 23 For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, 24 Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Cæsar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them… Read the whole commentary →

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