1:15 At the end of the ten days their appearance was better and their bodies were healthier 1 than all the young men who had been eating the royal delicacies.
7:5 “Then 2 a second beast appeared, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and there were three ribs 3 in its mouth between its teeth. 4 It was told, 5 ‘Get up and devour much flesh!’
1 tn Heb “fat of flesh”; KJV, ASV “fatter in flesh”; NASB, NRSV “fatter” (although this is no longer a sign of health in Western culture).
2 tn Aram “and behold.”
3 sn The three ribs held securely in the mouth of the bear, perhaps representing Media-Persia, apparently symbolize military conquest, but the exact identity of the “ribs” is not clear. Possibly it is a reference to the Persian conquest of Lydia, Egypt, and Babylonia.
4 tc The LXX lacks the phrase “between its teeth.”
5 tn Aram “and thus they were saying to it.”