Acts 27:42
And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.In other versions
And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any `of them' should swim out, and escape.
ASV
Then the armed men were for putting the prisoners to death, so that no one would get away by swimming.
BBE
And [the] counsel of the soldiers was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one should swim off and escape.
DBY
The soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.
WEB
And the soldiers' counsel was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one having swam out should escape,
YLT
And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
ENG
And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
WBT
The soldiers planned to kill the prisoners so none of them could swim to freedom.
BSB
In context
40And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.
41And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.
42And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
43But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land:
44And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.