Acts 27:42

42The soldiers planned to kill the prisoners to prevent any of them from swimming away and escaping.

42The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim away and escape;

42The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim away and escape;

42The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would dive overboard and swim [to land] and escape;

42 The soldiers planned to kill the prisoners so none of them could swim to freedom.

42The soldiers planned to kill the prisoners. They wanted to keep them from swimming away and escaping.