Acts 11:9
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And the voice answered again from heaven: What God hath made clean, do not thou call common.

What.

Acts 10:28,34,35 And he said to them: you know how abominable it is for a man that is a Jew to keep company or to come unto one of another nation: but God hath shewed to me, to call no man common or unclean. . . .

Acts 15:9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

1 Timothy 4:5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

Hebrews 9:13,14 For if the blood of goats and of oxen, and the ashes of an heifer, being sprinkled, sanctify such as are defiled, to the cleansing of the flesh: . . .

Context
Peter's Report at Jerusalem
8And I said: Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth. 9And the voice answered again from heaven: What God hath made clean, do not thou call common. 10And this was done three times. And all were taken up again into heaven.…
Cross References
Mark 7:19
Because it entereth not into his heart but goeth into his belly and goeth out into the privy, purging all meats?

Acts 10:15
And the voice spoke to him again the second time: That which God hath cleansed, do not thou call common.

Acts 11:8
And I said: Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth.

Acts 11:10
And this was done three times. And all were taken up again into heaven.

Lexicon
But
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

the voice
φωνὴ (phōnē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 5456: Probably akin to phaino through the idea of disclosure; a tone; by implication, an address, saying or language.

spoke
Ἀπεκρίθη (Apekrithē)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 611: From apo and krino; to conclude for oneself, i.e. to respond; by Hebraism to begin to speak.

from
ἐκ (ek)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.

heaven
οὐρανοῦ (ouranou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 3772: Perhaps from the same as oros; the sky; by extension, heaven; by implication, happiness, power, eternity; specially, the Gospel.

a second [time],
δευτέρου (deuterou)
Adjective - Genitive Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 1208: Second; with the article: in the second place, for the second time. As the compare of duo; second.

‘Do not call anything impure
κοίνου (koinou)
Verb - Present Imperative Active - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 2840: To make unclean, pollute, desecrate, mid: I regard (treat) as unclean. From koinos; to make profane.

that
(Ha)
Personal / Relative Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's Greek 3739: Who, which, what, that.

God
Θεὸς (Theos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

has made clean.’
ἐκαθάρισεν (ekatharisen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 2511: To cleanse, make clean, literally, ceremonially, or spiritually, according to context. From katharos; to cleanse.


Additional Translations
But the voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’

But for a second time the voice answered out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, you do not call unholy.'

But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God has cleansed, that call not you common.

But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.

And a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God has cleansed, do not thou make common.

But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.

But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

"But a voice answered, speaking a second time from the sky, "'What God has purified, you must not regard as unholy.'

But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, don't you call unclean.'

and a voice did answer me a second time out of the heaven, What God did cleanse, thou -- declare not thou common.
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