Peter's Vision of the Unclean Animals

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And on the morrow, as these are proceeding on the way, and are drawing nigh to the city, Peter went up upon the house-top to pray, about the sixth hour,

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and he became very hungry, and wished to eat; and they making ready, there fell upon him a trance,

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and he doth behold the heaven opened, and descending unto him a certain vessel, as a great sheet, bound at the four corners, and let down upon the earth,

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in which were all the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the heaven,

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and there came a voice unto him: `Having risen, Peter, slay and eat.'

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And Peter said, `Not so, Lord; because at no time did I eat anything common or unclean;'

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and there is a voice again a second time unto him: `What God did cleanse, thou, declare not thou common;'

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and this was done thrice, and again was the vessel received up to the heaven.

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