Daniel 2:33

2:33 Its legs were of iron; its feet were partly of iron and partly of clay. ¹ 

Daniel 2:41

2:41 In that you were seeing feet and toes ²  partly of wet clay ³  and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom. Some of the strength of iron will be in it, for you saw iron mixed with wet clay. ⁴ 

Daniel 2:43

2:43 And ⁵  in that you saw iron mixed with wet clay, so people will be mixed ⁶  with one another ⁷  without adhering to one another, just as ⁸  iron does not mix with clay.

Daniel 2:34

2:34 You were watching as ⁹  a stone was cut out, ¹⁰  but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its iron and clay feet, breaking them in pieces.

Daniel 2:42

2:42 In that the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, the latter stages of this kingdom will be partly strong and partly fragile.

Daniel 2:45

2:45 You saw that a stone was cut from a mountain, but not by human hands; it smashed the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold into pieces. The great God has made known to the king what will occur in the future. ¹¹  The dream is certain, and its interpretation is reliable.”

Daniel 2:35

2:35 Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were broken in pieces without distinction ¹²  and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors that the wind carries away. Not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a large mountain that filled the entire earth.

¹ sn Clay refers to baked clay, which – though hard – was also fragile. Cf. the reference in v. 41 to “wet clay.”

² tc The LXX lacks “and toes.”

³ tn Aram “potter’s clay.”

⁴ tn Aram “clay of clay” (also in v. 43).

³ tc The present translation reads the conjunction, with most medieval Hebrew MSS, LXX, Vulgate, and the Qere. The Kethib lacks the conjunction.

⁴ sn The reference to people being mixed is usually understood to refer to intermarriage.

⁵ tn Aram “with the seed of men.”

⁶ tc The present translation reads הֵיךְ דִּי (hekh diy) rather than the MT הֵא־כְדִי (he’-khÿdi). It is a case of wrong word division.

⁴ tn Aram “until.”

⁵ tc The LXX, Theodotion, and the Vulgate have “from a mountain,” though this is probably a harmonization with v. 45.

⁵ tn Aram “after this.”

⁶ tn Aram “as one.” For the meaning “without distinction” see the following: F. Rosenthal, Grammar, 36, §64, and p. 93; E. Vogt, Lexicon linguae aramaicae, 60.