We took such a violent battering from the storm that the next day they began to throw the cargo overboard.
OJBAnd we were being violently tossed by the storm, so much so that the next day they were throwing the cargo overboard.
RVAnd as we laboured exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw the freight overboard;
TCENTThe next day, because we were being severely battered by the storm, the sailors began throwing the cargo overboard.
T4T[27:17–18]After the sailors hoisted/lifted the lifeboat onto the ship, they tied ropes around the ship’s hull to strengthen the ship. The sailors were afraid that, because the wind was pushing the ship, it might run onto the sandbanks off the coast of Libya to the south and get stuck there. So they lowered the largest sail so that the ship would move slower. Even so, the wind continued to move the ship along. The wind and the waves continued to toss the ship about roughly, so on the next day the sailors began to throw overboard the things that the ship was carrying.