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Acts 11:9
But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’
Acts 11:9 · World English Bible
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 the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, do not call unclean.'
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In context
6 When I had looked intently at it, I considered, and saw the four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky.
7 I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter, kill and eat!’
8 But I said, ‘Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.’
9 But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’
10 This was done three times, and all were drawn up again into heaven.
11 Behold, immediately three men stood before the house where I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me.
12 The Spirit told me to go with them without discriminating. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered into the man’s house.
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