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I was in the city of Joppe praying: and I saw in an ecstasy of mind a vision, a certain vessel descending, as it were a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners. And it came even unto me.
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Into which looking, I considered and saw fourfooted creatures of the earth and beasts and creeping things and fowls of the air.
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And I heard also a voice saying to me: Arise, Peter. Kill and eat.
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And I said: Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth.
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And the voice answered again from heaven: What God hath made clean, do not thou call common.