9. And on the morrow, as these are proceeding on the way, and are drawing nigh to the city, Peter went up upon the house-top to pray, about the sixth hour,
10. and he became very hungry, and wished to eat; and they making ready, there fell upon him a trance,
11. and he doth behold the heaven opened, and descending unto him a certain vessel, as a great sheet, bound at the four corners, and let down upon the earth,
12. in which were all the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the heaven,
13. and there came a voice unto him: `Having risen, Peter, slay and eat.'
14. And Peter said, `Not so, Lord; because at no time did I eat anything common or unclean;'
15. and [there is] a voice again a second time unto him: `What God did cleanse, thou, declare not thou common;'
16. and this was done thrice, and again was the vessel received up to the heaven.