^{5 Ref} I was in the town of Joppa, at prayer: and falling into a deep sleep, I saw in a vision a vessel like a great cloth let down from heaven, and it came down to me:

^{6 Ref} And looking on it with attention I saw in it all sorts of beasts and birds.

⁷ And a voice came to my ears saying, Come, Peter; take them for food.

^{8 Ref} But I said, No, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever come into my mouth.

^{9 Ref} But the voice, coming a second time from heaven, said, What God has made clean, do not you make common.

^{10 Ref} And this was done three times, and they were all taken up again into heaven.

^{11 Ref} And at that minute, three men, sent from Caesarea, came to the house where we were.

^{12 Ref} And the Spirit gave me orders to go with them, doubting nothing. And these six brothers came with me; and we went into that man's house:

^{13 Ref} And he gave us an account of how he had seen the angel in his house, saying, Send to Joppa, and get Simon, named Peter, to come to you;

^{14 Ref} Who will say words to you through which you and all your family may get salvation.