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Acts 11:9
And the voice answered again from heaven: What God hath made clean, do not thou call common.
Acts 11:9 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
Acts 11:9 in other translations
But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
But the voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’
But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’
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In context
6 Into which looking, I considered and saw fourfooted creatures of the earth and beasts and creeping things and fowls of the air.
7 And I heard also a voice saying to me: Arise, Peter. Kill and eat.
8 And I said: Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth.
9 And the voice answered again from heaven: What God hath made clean, do not thou call common.
10 And this was done three times. And all were taken up again into heaven.
11 And behold, immediately there were three men come to the house wherein I was, sent to me from Caesarea.
12 And the Spirit said to me that I should go with them, nothing doubting. And these six brethren went with me also: and we entered into the man's house.
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