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Acts 27:42

And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.

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The soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.
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Cross References

Acts 12:19Mark 15:15–20Ecclesiastes 9:3Proverbs 12:10Luke 23:40–41Psalms 74:20

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