Acts 27:28
Acts 27:27-29 The Message (MSG)
On the fourteenth night, adrift somewhere on the Adriatic Sea, at about midnight the sailors sensed that we were approaching land. Sounding, they measured a depth of 120 feet, and shortly after that ninety feet. Afraid that we were about to run aground, they threw out four anchors and prayed for daylight.
Acts 27:28 King James Version (KJV)
and sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.
Acts 27:28 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
They took soundings and found it to be twenty fathoms; and a little farther on they took another sounding and found it to be fifteen fathoms.
Acts 27:28 New Century Version (NCV)
so they lowered a rope with a weight on the end of it into the water. They found that the water was one hundred twenty feet deep. They went a little farther and lowered the rope again. It was ninety feet deep.
Acts 27:28 American Standard Version (ASV)
and they sounded, and found twenty fathoms; and after a little space, they sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms.
Acts 27:28 New International Version (NIV)
They took soundings and found that the water was a hundred and twenty feet deep. A short time later they took soundings again and found it was ninety feet deep.
Acts 27:28 New King James Version (NKJV)
And they took soundings and found it to be twenty fathoms; and when they had gone a little farther, they took soundings again and found it to be fifteen fathoms.
Acts 27:28 Amplified Bible (AMP)
So they took soundings [using a weighted line] and found [the depth to be] twenty fathoms (120 feet); and a little farther on they sounded again and found [the depth to be] fifteen fathoms (90 feet).
Acts 27:28 New Living Translation (NLT)
They dropped a weighted line and found that the water was 120 feet deep. But a little later they measured again and found it was only 90 feet deep.