Acts 7:3

7:3 and said to him, ‘Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.’ ¹ 

Acts 27:44

27:44 and the rest were to follow, ²  some on planks ³  and some on pieces of the ship. ⁴  And in this way ⁵  all were brought safely to land.

[7:3]  ¹ sn A quotation from Gen 12:1.

[27:44]  ² tn The words “were to follow” are not in the Greek text, but are implied. They must be supplied to clarify the sense in contemporary English.

[27:44]  ³ tn Or “boards” according to BDAG 913 s.v. σανίς.

[27:44]  ⁴ tn Grk “on pieces from the ship”; that is, pieces of wreckage from the ship.

[27:44]  ⁵ tn Grk “And in this way it happened that.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.