11. He saw heaven opened and something resembling a large sheet coming down, lowered to the ground by its four corners.
12. In it were all the earth’s four-legged animals and reptiles and the birds of the sky.
13. A voice said to him, “Get up, Peter. Slaughter and eat.”
14. But Peter said, “Certainly not, sir. For never have I eaten anything profane and unclean.”
15. The voice spoke to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you are not to call profane.”
16. This happened three times, and then the object was taken up into the sky.