When I had looked intently at it, I considered, and saw the four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Acts 11:6 in context
Acts 11:3–9
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saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men and ate with them!”
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But Peter began, and explained to them in order, saying,
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“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain container descending, like it was a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners. It came as far as me.
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When I had looked intently at it, I considered, and saw the four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky.
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I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter, kill and eat!’
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But I said, ‘Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.’
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But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’
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