RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

30 And as the sailors were about to flee out of the ship,
when they had let down the lifeboat into the sea, under
pretense as though they were casting out anchors to fasten
the ship,
31 Shaul said to the captain and to the soldiers, If these
people do not stay in the ship, they cannot survive.
32 Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the lifeboat, and
let it fall off.
33 And while the day was dawning, Shaul besought them
all to take food, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that
you have stayed and continued fasting, having taken
nothing.
34 Therefore I beg you to take some food: for this is for
your health: for there shall not a hair fall from the head of
any of you.
35 And when he had spoken, he took lechem, and gave
hodu to vuvh in the presence of them all: and when he had
broken it, he began to eat.
36 Then were they all of tov courage, and they also took
some food.
37 And we were in the ship a total of two hundred
seventy six beings.
38 And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the
ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.
39 And when it was day, they did not recognize the land:
but they discovered a certain bay with a shore, into which
they planned, if it were possible, to run the ship.
40 And when they had cut off the anchors, they threw
them into the sea, and loosed the rudder ropes, and
hoisted up the main sail to the wind, and made it to shore.
41 And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran
the ship aground; and the front stuck fast, and remained
unmovable, but the back of it was broken with the
violence of the waves.
42 And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest
any of them should swim away, and escape.
43 But the captain, willing to save Shaul, kept them from
their purpose; and commanded that those who could swim
should cast themselves first into the sea, and go to land:
44 And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken
pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they all
escaped safely to land.
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And having come to safety, then they learned that the
island was called Melita.
2 And the barbarians who lived there showed us much
kindness: for they lit a fire, and received each one of us,
because of the falling rain, and because of the cold.
3 And when Shaul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and
laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat,
and bit his hand.
4 And when the barbarians saw the creature hanging on
his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man
is a murderer, who, though he has escaped the sea, yet
mishpat does not allow him to have his chayim.
5 And he shook off the viper into the fire, and felt no
harm.
6 But they looked to see when he would swell up, or die
suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw
no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said
that he was a mighty tvkt.
7 In the same area were lands belonging to the chief of
the island, whose name was Publius; who received us,
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and lodged us at his home for three days most
courteously.
8 And it came to pass, that the abba of Publius lay sick of
a fever and of a bowel pain: to whom Shaul entered in,
and made tefillah, and laid his hands on him, and healed
him.
9 So when this was done, others also, who had diseases in
the island, came, and were healed:
10 Who also honored us with many honors; and when we
departed, they gave us such basic things as were
necessary.
11 And after three months we departed in a ship from
Alexandria, which had wintered on the island, whose
carved figurehead was Castor and Pollux.
12 And landing at Syracuse, we stayed there three days.
13 And from there we got hold of a compass, and came to
Rhegium: and after one day the south wind blew, and we
came the next day to Puteoli:
14 Where we found Yisraelite brothers, and were invited
to stay with them for seven days: and so we went toward
Romiyah.
15 And from there, when the Yisraelite brothers heard of
us, they came to meet us as far as Appiiforum, and the
Three Taverns: who when Shaul saw, he gave hodu to
vuvh, and took courage.
16 And when we came to Romiyah, the captain delivered
the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Shaul was
allowed to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.
17 And it came to pass, that after three days Shaul called
the rulers of the Yahudim together: and when they had
come together, he said to them, Men and Yisraelite
brothers, though I have committed nothing against the
Yahudim, or the Torah of our ahvot, yet was I delivered
as a prisoner from Yahrushalayim into the hands of the
Romayim.
18 Who, when they had examined me, would have let me
go, because there was no reason for death to be brought
against me.
19 But when the unbelieving Yahudim spoke against it, I
was obliged to appeal to Kaiser; not that I had anything to
accuse my nation of.
20 For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see
you, and to speak with you: because it is for the tikvah of
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21 And they said to him, We neither received letters out
of the province of Yahudah concerning you, neither did
any of the Yisraelite brothers that came here show, or
speak any lashon hara against you.
22 But we desire to hear from you what you think: for as
concerning this sect, 5391 we know that everywhere it is
spoken against. 5392
23 And when they had appointed him a day, there came
many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and
testified about the malchut of vuvh, persuading them
concerning gauvh, both out of the Torah of Moshe, and
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24 And some believed the things that were spoken, and
some believed not.
25 And when they agreed not among themselves, they
departed, after Shaul had spoken one final word, Well did
the Ruach Hakodesh speak by Yeshayahu the navi to
our ahvot,
26 Saying, Go to this people, and say, Hearing you shall