Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, to lighten it. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.
So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and [the next miracle] the sea ceased her raging ( Jonah 1:15 ).