Daniel 3:8

3:8 Now 1  at that time certain 2  Chaldeans came forward and brought malicious accusations against 3  the Jews.

Daniel 6:11

6:11 Then those officials who had gone to the king 4  came by collusion and found Daniel praying and asking for help before his God.

1 tc This expression is absent in Theodotion.

2 tn Aram “men.”

3 tn Aram “ate the pieces of.” This is a rather vivid idiom for slander.

4 tn Aram “those men”; the referent (the administrative officials who had earlier approached the king about the edict) has been specified in the translation for clarity.