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“I was in the town of Joppa,” he said, “and while I was praying, I went into a trance and saw a vision. Something like a large sheet was let down by its four corners from the sky. And it came right down to me.
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When I looked inside the sheet, I saw all sorts of tame and wild animals, reptiles, and birds.
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And I heard a voice say, ‘Get up, Peter; kill and eat them.’
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“‘No, Lord,’ I replied. ‘I have never eaten anything that our Jewish laws have declared impure or unclean. ’
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“But the voice from heaven spoke again: ‘Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean.’
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This happened three times before the sheet and all it contained was pulled back up to heaven.