6. and I looked inside. I saw all kinds of animals, including wild ones, as well as reptiles and birds.
7. I heard a voice say to me, ‘Get up, Peter. Kill anything here and eat it!’
8. “But I said, ‘I can’t do that, Lord! I have never eaten anything that is not pure or fit to be used for food.’
9. “But the voice from heaven answered again, ‘God has made these things pure. Don’t say they are unfit to eat!’
10. “This happened three times. Then the whole thing was taken back into heaven.
11. Suddenly there were three men standing outside the house where I was staying. They had been sent from Caesarea to get me.
12. The Spirit told me to go with them without wondering if it was all right. These six brothers here also went with me, and we went to the house of Cornelius.