Acts Chapter 10 verse 12 Holy Bible
wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts and creeping things of the earth and birds of the heaven.
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In which were all sorts of beasts and birds.
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in which were all the quadrupeds and creeping things of the earth, and the fowls of the heaven.
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Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
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in which were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and birds of the sky.
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in which were all the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the heaven,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - Beasts and creeping things of the earth for beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, A.V. and T.R.; heaven for air, A.V. The distinction between clean and unclean was very sharply drawn in the Levitical Law (Leviticus 11; see especially vers. 41-44 and Leviticus 20:25; Deuteronomy 14:3-20). Peter's astonishment must, therefore, have been exceeding great at the command to slay and eat. And so his answer in ver. 14 shows. And yet our Lord had taught him the same truth (Matthew 15:10-20, or still more distinctly Mark 8:14-23).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) All manner of four-footed beasts . . .--The classification seems to imply the sheep, the oxen, or the swine that were used as food by the Gentiles, as coming under this head, the deer and goats, and conies and hares under that of "wild beasts." Stress in each case is laid upon there being "all manner" of each class, those that were allowed, and those also that were forbidden by the Jewish law.
