Catholic Public Domain Version
"Then I also heard a voice saying to me: ‘Rise up, Peter. Kill and eat.’ "
— Acts 11:7, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.”
“And I heard also a voice saying unto me, Rise, Peter; kill and eat. ”
“I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Rise, Peter, kill and eat!'”
“I also heard a voice saying to me,‘Get up, Peter; slaughter and eat!’”
“And I heard also a voice saying to me: Arise, Peter. Kill and eat.”
“And a voice came to my ears saying, Come, Peter; take them for food.”
“And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.”
And Peter began to explain to them, in an orderly manner, saying:
“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and I saw, in an ecstasy of mind, a vision: a certain container descending, like a great linen sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners. And it drew near to me.
And looking into it, I considered and saw the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the reptiles, and the flying things of the air.
Then I also heard a voice saying to me: ‘Rise up, Peter. Kill and eat.’
But I said: ‘Never, lord! For what is common or unclean has never entered into my mouth.’
Then the voice responded a second time from heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, you shall not call common.’
Now this was done three times. And then everything was taken up again into heaven.