Orthodox Jewish Bible

Gevurot 11:8-17 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

8. "But I said, `By no means, Adoni, because nothing common or tameh (unclean) has ever entered into my stomach.'

9. "And the bat kol answered for a second time from Shomayim, 'What Hashem made tahor (clean) do not declare tameh (unclean).'

10. "This happened shlosh pe'amim, and everything was pulled up again into Shomayim.

11. "Hinei, at once shloshah anashim stood at the bais in which I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me.

12. "And the Ruach Hakodesh said to me to accompany them without hesitating and these sheshet haAchim b'Moshiach came with me also, and we entered into the bais of the ish.

13. "He reported to us how he saw the malach in his bais having stood and having said, 'Send to Yafo and summon Shimon, the one being called Kefa,

14. 'Who will speak words to you by which you and all your bais will find Yeshu'at Eloheinu.'

15. "As I began to speak, the Ruach Hakodesh fell upon them, just as also upon us in the beginning.

16. And I remembered the dvar of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu, how he used to say, 'Yochanan gave a tevilah of teshuva with a mikveh mayim, but you will be given a tevilah with the Ruach Hakodesh.'

17. "If then Hashem gave the same matanah to them as also to us after believing in Moshiach Adoneinu, who then was I to stand in the way of Hashem?"