Acts 11:7
5 “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision of something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came right down to me.
6 I looked at it closely and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air.
Then I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter, kill and eat.’
8 ‘No, Lord,’ I said, ‘for nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’
9 But the voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Then I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter, kill and eat.’
- KJV
- And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.
- WEB
- I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter, kill and eat!’
- ASV
- And I heard also a voice saying unto me, Rise, Peter; kill and eat.
- DARBY
- And I heard also a voice saying to me, Rise up, Peter, slay and eat.
- BLB
- And also I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Having risen up, Peter, kill and eat.’
- ÅB
- Jeg hørte også en røst som sa til meg: Stå opp, Peter! slakt og spis!
- OTB
- Så hørte jeg en stemme som sa til meg: ‘Stå opp, Peter; slakt og spis.’
- B1930
- Jeg hørte også en røst som sa til mig: Stå op, Peter! slakt og et!