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Acts 10
⁷ As soon as the angel was gone, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier, one of his personal attendants.
⁸ He told them what had happened and sent them off to Joppa.
⁹ The next day as Cornelius’s messengers were nearing the town, Peter went up on the flat roof to pray. It was about noon,
¹⁰ and he was hungry. But while a meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance.
¹¹ He saw the sky open, and something like a large sheet was let down by its four corners.
¹² In the sheet were all sorts of animals, reptiles, and birds.
¹³ Then a voice said to him, “Get up, Peter; kill and eat them.”
¹⁴ “No, Lord,” Peter declared. “I have never eaten anything that our Jewish laws have declared impure and unclean.”
¹⁵ But the voice spoke again: “Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean.”
¹⁶ The same vision was repeated three times. Then the sheet was suddenly pulled up to heaven.
¹⁷ Peter was very perplexed. What could the vision mean? Just then the men sent by Cornelius found Simon’s house. Standing outside the gate,