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OET (OET-LV) I was in the_city of_Yoppaʸ praying, and in a_trance I_saw a_vision, an_ certain _object coming_down like a_ by_its_four _linen_sheet, great corners being_let_down out_of the heaven, and it_came until me,
OET (OET-RV) “I was staying in Yoppa, and as I was praying I saw a vision of an object like a sheet coming down, as if it was being let down out of the sky by its four corners. As it came down to me
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
καθιεμένην
/being/_let_down
If your language does not use this passive form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. It may be helpful to begin a new sentence here. Alternate translation: “It appeared as if someone was letting it down”
11:1-18 Jews traditionally kept themselves separate and did not eat or associate socially with Gentiles (10:28; 22:21-22; see John 4:9, 27; 18:28; Gal 2:12-14). Therefore, when the Jewish believers in Jerusalem learned that Gentiles had received the word of God, they criticized Peter’s unconventional actions and wanted an explanation, which Peter provided.
OET (OET-LV) I was in the_city of_Yoppaʸ praying, and in a_trance I_saw a_vision, an_ certain _object coming_down like a_ by_its_four _linen_sheet, great corners being_let_down out_of the heaven, and it_came until me,
OET (OET-RV) “I was staying in Yoppa, and as I was praying I saw a vision of an object like a sheet coming down, as if it was being let down out of the sky by its four corners. As it came down to me
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.