Acts 11:6

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As I stared I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and wild birds.

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  • Luke 4:20 : 20 Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him.
  • Acts 3:4 : 4 Peter looked directly at him(as did John) and said,“Look at us!”

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  • Acts 10:8-17
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    8and when he had explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.

    9About noon the next day, while they were on their way and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray.

    10He became hungry and wanted to eat, but while they were preparing the meal, a trance came over him.

    11He saw heaven opened and an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down to earth by its four corners.

    12In it were all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth and wild birds.

    13Then a voice said to him,“Get up, Peter; slaughter and eat!”

    14But Peter said,“Certainly not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and ritually unclean!”

    15The voice spoke to him again, a second time,“What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!”

    16This happened three times, and immediately the object was taken up into heaven.

    17Now while Peter was puzzling over what the vision he had seen could signify, the men sent by Cornelius had learned where Simon’s house was and approached the gate.

  • Acts 11:3-5
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    3saying,“You went to uncircumcised men and shared a meal with them.”

    4But Peter began and explained it to them point by point, 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 descending, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came to me.

  • Acts 11:7-13
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    7I also heard a voice saying to me,‘Get up, Peter; slaughter and eat!’

    8But I said,‘Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!’

    9But the voice replied a second time from heaven,‘What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!’

    10This happened three times, and then everything was pulled up to heaven again.

    11At that very moment, three men sent to me from Caesarea approached the house where we were staying.

    12The Spirit told me to accompany them without hesitation. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s house.

    13He informed us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying,‘Send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter,

  • Acts 10:19
    74%

    19While Peter was still thinking seriously about the vision, the Spirit said to him,“Look! Three men are looking for you.

  • Lev 11:46
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    46This is the law of the land animals, the birds, all the living creatures that move in the water, and all the creatures that swarm on the land,

  • Acts 10:3-5
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    3About three o’clock one afternoon he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God who came in and said to him,“Cornelius.”

    4Staring at him and becoming greatly afraid, Cornelius replied,“What is it, Lord?” The angel said to him,“Your prayers and your acts of charity have gone up as a memorial before God.

    5Now send men to Joppa and summon a man named Simon, who is called Peter.

  • Acts 22:17
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    17When I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance

  • Dan 7:6
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    6“After these things, as I was watching, another beast like a leopard appeared, with four bird-like wings on its back. This beast had four heads, and ruling authority was given to it.

  • Lev 11:41-42
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    41Every swarming thing that swarms on the land is detestable; it must not be eaten.

    42You must not eat anything that crawls on its belly or anything that walks on all fours or on any number of legs of all the swarming things that swarm on the land, because they are detestable.

  • Acts 10:27-30
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    27Peter continued talking with him as he went in, and he found many people gathered together.

    28He said to them,“You know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile, yet God has shown me that I should call no person defiled or ritually unclean.

    29Therefore when you sent for me, I came without any objection. Now may I ask why you sent for me?”

    30Cornelius replied,“Four days ago at this very hour, at three o’clock in the afternoon, I was praying in my house, and suddenly a man in shining clothing stood before me

  • Rev 4:7
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    7The first living creature was like a lion, the second creature like an ox, the third creature had a face like a man’s, and the fourth creature looked like an eagle flying.

  • Lev 11:20-21
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    20Clean and Unclean Insects“‘Every winged swarming thing that walks on all fours is detestable to you.

    21However, this you may eat from all the winged swarming things that walk on all fours, which have jointed legs to hop with on the land.

  • Ps 148:10
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    10you animals and all you cattle, you creeping things and birds,

  • Gen 7:8
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    8Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,

  • Dan 7:3
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    3Then four large beasts came up from the sea; they were different from one another.

  • Deut 4:17
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    17any kind of land animal, any bird that flies in the sky,

  • Acts 12:11
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    11When Peter came to himself, he said,“Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from everything the Jewish people were expecting to happen.”

  • Acts 22:6
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    6As I was en route and near Damascus, about noon a very bright light from heaven suddenly flashed around me.

  • Ezek 8:10
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    10So I went in and looked. I noticed every figure of creeping thing and beast– detestable images– and every idol of the house of Israel, engraved on the wall all around.

  • Acts 10:32
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    32Therefore send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter. This man is staying as a guest in the house of Simon the tanner, by the sea.’

  • Acts 3:4
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    4Peter looked directly at him(as did John) and said,“Look at us!”

  • Lev 11:2
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    2“Tell the Israelites:‘This is the kind of creature you may eat from among all the animals that are on the land.

  • Ezek 1:5
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    5In the fire were what looked like four living beings. In their appearance they had human form,

  • Deut 14:6
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    6You may eat any animal that has hooves divided into two parts and that chews the cud.

  • Lev 11:23
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    23But any other winged swarming thing that has four legs is detestable to you.

  • Acts 22:11
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    11Since I could not see because of the brilliance of that light, I came to Damascus led by the hand of those who were with me.