New American Standard Bible 1995

Jonah 1:5-11

5Then the sailors became afraid and every man cried to 1his god, and they 2threw the 3cargo which was in the ship into the sea to lighten it 4for them. But Jonah had gone below into the hold of the ship, lain down and fallen sound asleep. 6So the captain approached him and said, “How is it that you are sleeping? Get up, 5call on your god. Perhaps your 6god will be concerned about us so that we will not perish.”

7Each man said to his mate, “Come, let us 7cast lots so we may 8learn on whose account this calamity has struck us.” So they cast lots and the 9lot fell on Jonah. 8Then they said to him, “10Tell us, now! On whose account has this calamity struck us? What is your 11occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? From what people are you?” 9He said to them, “I am a 12Hebrew, and I 13fear the Lord 14God of heaven who 15made the sea and the dry land.”

10Then the men became extremely frightened and they said to him, “16How could you do this?” For the men knew that he was 17fleeing from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them. 11So they said to him, “What should we do to you that the sea may become calm 18for us?”--for the sea was becoming increasingly stormy.

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Notes

1. Jonah 1:5 1 Kin 18:26 ↩
2. Jonah 1:5 Acts 27:18, 19, 38 ↩
3. Jonah 1:5 Lit vessels ↩
4. Jonah 1:5 Lit from upon them ↩
5. Jonah 1:6 Ps 107:28 ↩
6. Jonah 1:6 2 Sam 12:22; Amos 5:15; Jon 3:9 ↩
7. Jonah 1:7 Josh 7:14-18; 1 Sam 10:20, 21; 14:41, 42; Acts 1:23-26 ↩
8. Jonah 1:7 Lit know ↩
9. Jonah 1:7 Num 32:23; Prov 16:33 ↩
10. Jonah 1:8 Josh 7:19; 1 Sam 14:43 ↩
11. Jonah 1:8 Gen 47:3; 1 Sam 30:13 ↩
12. Jonah 1:9 Gen 14:13; Ex 1:15; 2:13 ↩
13. Jonah 1:9 2 Kin 17:25, 28, 32, 33 ↩
14. Jonah 1:9 Ezra 1:2; Neh 1:4; Ps 136:26; Dan 2:18 ↩
15. Jonah 1:9 Neh 9:6; Ps 95:5; 146:6 ↩
16. Jonah 1:10 Lit What is this you have done ↩
17. Jonah 1:10 Job 27:22; Jon 1:3 ↩
18. Jonah 1:11 Lit from upon us ↩

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