Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, struck sail, and so were driven.
 

27:17 helps. These “helps” were probably cables for bracing the hull.

27:17 quicksands. The “quicksands” were off the African coast, west of Cyrene.

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