4. But Peter began and explained it to them in an orderly sequence, saying,
5. “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision—an object something like a large sheet coming down, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came to me.
6. As I looked intently into it, I was considering it, and I saw the four-footed animals of the earth and the wild animals and the reptiles and the birds of the sky.
7. And I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter, slaughter and eat!’
8. But I said, ‘Certainly not, Lord! For nothing common or unclean has ever entered into my mouth!’