NET Bible
"But I said,‘Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!’"
— Acts 11:8, NET Bible
“But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.”
“But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth. ”
“But I said, 'Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.'”
“And I said: Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth.”
“But I said, No, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever come into my mouth.”
“But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.”
“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came to me.
As I stared I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and wild birds.
I also heard a voice saying to me,‘Get up, Peter; slaughter and eat!’
But I said,‘Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!’
But the voice replied a second time from heaven,‘What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!’
This happened three times, and then everything was pulled up to heaven again.
At that very moment, three men sent to me from Caesarea approached the house where we were staying.