Acts 27:39
Good News Translation
When day came, the sailors did not recognize the coast, but they noticed a bay with a beach and decided that, if possible, they would run the ship aground there.

New Revised Standard Version
In the morning they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, on which they planned to run the ship ashore, if they could.

Contemporary English Version
Morning came, and the ship's crew saw a coast they did not recognize. But they did see a cove with a beach. So they decided to try to run the ship aground on the beach.

New American Bible
When day came they did not recognize the land, but made out a bay with a beach. They planned to run the ship ashore on it, if they could.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when it was day, they knew not the land. But they discovered a certain creek that had a shore, into which they minded, if they could, to thrust in the ship.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when it was day, they knew not the land. But they discovered a certain creek that had a shore, into which they minded, if they could, to thrust in the ship.

Context
The Shipwreck
38And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, casting the wheat into the sea. 39And when it was day, they knew not the land. But they discovered a certain creek that had a shore, into which they minded, if they could, to thrust in the ship. 40And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves to the sea, loosing withal the rudder bands. And hoisting up the mainsail to the wind, they made towards shore.…
Cross References
Matthew 1:19
Whereupon Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing publicly to expose her, was minded to put her away privately.

Acts 27:40
And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves to the sea, loosing withal the rudder bands. And hoisting up the mainsail to the wind, they made towards shore.

Acts 28:1
And when we had escaped, then we knew that the island was called Melita. But the barbarians shewed us no small courtesy.

Acts 27:38
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