New International Reader's Version

Acts 10:13-16 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

13. Then a voice told him, "Get up, Peter. Kill and eat."

14. "No, Lord! I will not!" Peter replied. "I have never eaten anything that is not pure and 'clean.' "

15. The voice spoke to him a second time. "Do not say anything is not pure that God has made 'clean,' " it said.

16. This happened three times. Right away the sheet was taken back up to heaven.