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Acts 11:7
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Then I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter, kill and eat.’
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And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.
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I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter, kill and eat!’
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And I heard also a voice saying unto me, Rise, Peter; kill and eat.
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And also I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Having risen up, Peter, kill and eat!’
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Acts 11
5 “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision of something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came right down to me.
6 I looked at it closely and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air.
7 Then I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter, kill and eat.’
8 ‘No, Lord,’ I said, ‘for nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’
9 But the voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’
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