Peter's Vision of the Unclean Animals

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The next day at about the sixth hour, as the men were approaching the city on their journey, Peter went up on the roof to pray.

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He became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance.

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He saw heaven open and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners.

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It contained all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth, as well as birds of the air.

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Then a voice said to him: “Get up, Peter, kill and eat!”

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“No, Lord!” Peter answered. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”

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The voice spoke to him a second time: “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”

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This happened three times, and all at once the sheet was taken back up into heaven.