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.
8:1 2 In the third year 3 of King Belshazzar’s reign, a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after the one that had appeared to me previously. 4
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 sn Dan 8:1 marks the switch from Aramaic (= 2:4b-7:28) back to Hebrew as the language in which the book is written in its present form. The remainder of the book from this point on (8:1-12:13) is in Hebrew. The bilingual nature of the book has been variously explained, but it most likely has to do with the book’s transmission history.
3 sn The third year of King Belshazzar’s reign would have been ca. 551
4 tn Heb “in the beginning.” This refers to the vision described in chapter seven.