Acts 10:11

He ¹  saw heaven ²  opened ³  and an object something like a large sheet ⁴  descending, ⁵  being let down to earth ⁶  by its four corners.

He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners.

and he *saw the sky opened up, and an object like a great sheet coming down, lowered by four corners to the ground,

He saw the sky open, and something like a large sheet was let down by its four corners.

He saw the skies open up. Something that looked like a huge blanket lowered by ropes at its four corners settled on the ground.

And he saw the heavens opening, and a vessel coming down, like a great cloth let down on the earth,

He saw the heaven opened and something like a large sheet coming down, being lowered to the ground by its four corners.

and saw heaven opened and an object like a great sheet bound at the four corners, descending to him and let down to the earth.

He ¹  saw heaven ²  opened ³  and an object something like a large sheet ⁴  descending, ⁵  being let down to earth ⁶  by its four corners.

¹ tn Grk “And he.” Because of the length of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun.

² tn Or “the sky” (the same Greek word means both “heaven” and “sky”).

³ tn On the heavens “opening,” see Matt 3:16; Luke 3:21; Rev 19:11 (cf. BDAG 84 s.v. ἀνοίγω 2). This is the language of a vision or a revelatory act of God.

⁴ tn Or “a large linen cloth” (the term was used for the sail of a ship; BDAG 693 s.v. ὀθόνη).

⁵ tn Or “coming down.”

⁶ tn Or “to the ground.”