But Peter said, "No, no, my Lord; I have never eaten anything common or unclean."

A second time the voice came back to him, "What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common."

To them Peter said, "You know yourselves it is illegal for a Jew to join or accost anyone belonging to another nation; but God has shown me that I must not call any man common or unclean,

I said, 'No, no, my Lord; nothing common or unclean has ever passed my lips.'

But a voice answered me for the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common.'

All nations he has created from a common origin, to dwell all over the earth, fixing their allotted periods and the boundaries of their abodes,