Acts 11:7
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New International Version (©2011)
Then I heard a voice telling me, 'Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.'

New Living Translation (©2007)
And I heard a voice say, 'Get up, Peter; kill and eat them.'

English Standard Version (©2001)
And I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter; kill and eat.’

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Get up, Peter; kill and eat.'

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then I also heard a voice telling me, Get up, Peter; kill and eat!'"

International Standard Version (©2012)
I also heard a voice telling me, 'Get up, Peter! Kill something and eat it.'

NET Bible (©2006)
I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Get up, Peter; slaughter and eat!'

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And I heard a voice that said to me, 'Shimeon, arise, slay and eat.'

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I also heard a voice telling me, 'Get up, Peter! Kill these animals, and eat them.'

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.

American King James Version
And I heard a voice saying to me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.

American Standard Version
And I heard also a voice saying unto me, Rise, Peter; kill and eat.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I heard also a voice saying to me: Arise, Peter; kill and eat.

Darby Bible Translation
And I heard also a voice saying to me, Rise up, Peter, slay and eat.

English Revised Version
And I heard also a voice saying unto me, Rise, Peter; kill and eat.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I heard a voice saying to me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.

Weymouth New Testament
I also heard a voice saying to me, "'Rise, Peter, kill and eat.'

World English Bible
I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Rise, Peter, kill and eat!'

Young's Literal Translation
and I heard a voice saying to me, Having risen, Peter, slay and eat;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

11:1-18 The imperfect state of human nature strongly appears, when godly persons are displeased even to hear that the word of God has been received, because their own system has not been attended to. And we are too apt to despair of doing good to those who yet, when tried, prove very teachable. It is the bane and damage of the church, to shut out those from it, and from the benefit of the means of grace, who are not in every thing as we are. Peter stated the whole affair. We should at all times bear with the infirmities of our brethren; and instead of taking offence, or answering with warmth, we should explain our motives, and show the nature of our proceedings. That preaching is certainly right, with which the Holy Ghost is given. While men are very zealous for their own regulations, they should take care that they do not withstand God; and those who love the Lord will glorify him, when made sure that he has given repentance to life to any fellow-sinners. Repentance is God's gift; not only his free grace accepts it, but his mighty grace works it in us, grace takes away the heart of stone, and gives us a heart of flesh. The sacrifice of God is a broken spirit.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 7. - Also a voice for a voice, A.V. and T.R.; rise for arise, A.V.; kilt for day, A.V.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And I heard a voice saying unto me,.... As he apprehended in his mind; and this voice he heard in the same sense and manner, as the Apostle Paul heard when in a trance, Acts 22:17.

arise, Peter, slay and eat; that is, get up and slay some of these creatures upon the sheet, and dress them and eat them.

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Peter Reports to the Church at Jerusalem
…6On the which when I had fastened my eyes, I considered, and saw four footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. 7And I heard a voice saying to me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat. 8But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean has at any time entered into my mouth. …

Acts 11:6 I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles and birds.
Acts 11:8 "I replied, 'Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.'