Acts 10:9-16

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⁹ About noon the next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray.^{(A) 10} He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while it was being prepared he fell into a trance.^{(B) 11} He saw the heaven opened and something like a large sheet coming down, being lowered to the ground by its four corners.^{(C) 12} In it were all kinds of four-footed creatures and reptiles and birds of the air. ¹³ Then he heard a voice saying, “Get up, Peter; kill and eat.” ¹⁴ But Peter said, “By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is profane or unclean.”^{(D) 15} The voice said to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you must not call profane.”^{(E) 16} This happened three times, and the thing was suddenly taken up to heaven.