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He saw in a vision evidently, about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming in to him, and saying to him, Cornelius.
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And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Thy prayers and thy alms are come up for a memorial before God.
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And now send men to Joppa, and call for [one] Simon, whose surname is Peter:
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He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea-side: he will tell thee what thou oughtest to do.
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And when the angel who spoke to Cornelius had departed, he called two of his household servants, and a devout soldier of them that waited on him continually;
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And when he had declared all [these] things to them, he sent them to Joppa.
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On the morrow, as they were going on their journey, and drew 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 would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,
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And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending to him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:
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In which were all manner of four-footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping animals, and fowls of the air.
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And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.