Acts 10:4-15

4He stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” The angel said to him, “Your prayers and tzadakah have gone up as a memorial offering before God.

5Now send men to Joppa and call for Simon, also named Peter.

6He is being entertained as a guest by Simon the tanner, whose house is beside the sea.”

7When the angel speaking to him had left, he called two of his servants and a soldier from among those attached to his command.

8After he explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.

9The next day, as the soldiers were traveling and approaching the city, Peter went up to the rooftop to pray, at about the sixth hour.

10Now he became very hungry and wanted to eat; but while they were preparing something, he fell into a trance.

11He saw the heavens opened, and something like a great sheet coming down, lowered by its four corners to the earth.

12In it were all sorts of four-footed animals and reptiles and birds of the air.

13A voice came to him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”

14But Peter said, “Certainly not, Lord! For never have I eaten anything unholy or unclean.”

15Again a voice came to him, a second time: “What God has made clean, you must not consider unholy.”