Acts 11:4

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Acts 11:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers took issue with him

3 and said, “You visited uncircumcised men and ate with them.”

4 But Peter began and explained to them the whole sequence of events:

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.

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Joshua 22:22

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Joshua 22:23

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Joshua 22:24

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Joshua 22:25

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Joshua 22:26

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Joshua 22:27

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Joshua 22:28

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Joshua 22:29

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Joshua 22:30

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Joshua 22:31

Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest said to the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh, “Today we know that the LORD is among us, because you have not committed this breach of faith against Him. Consequently, you have delivered the Israelites from the hand of the LORD.”

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