⁹ The next day, as they were on their way and were approaching the city, Peter went up on ^[a]the roof of the house about the sixth hour (noon) to pray, ¹⁰ but he became hungry and wanted something to eat. While ^[b]the meal was being prepared he fell into a trance; ¹¹ and he saw the sky opened up, and an ^[c]object like a great sheet descending, lowered by its four corners to the earth, ¹² and it contained all kinds of four-footed animals and crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the air. ¹³ A voice came to him, “Get up, Peter, kill and eat!” ¹⁴ But Peter said, “Not at all, Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is common (unholy) and [ceremonially] unclean.” ¹⁵ And the voice came to him a second time, “What God has cleansed and pronounced clean, no longer consider common (unholy).” ¹⁶ This happened three times, and then immediately the object was taken up into heaven.

² a devout man and one who, along with all his household, feared God. He made many charitable donations to the Jewish people, and prayed to God always.