Daniel 5:28

5:28 As for peres ¹  – your kingdom is divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

Daniel 8:20

8:20 The ram that you saw with the two horns stands for the kings of Media and Persia.

Daniel 6:8

6:8 Now let the king issue a written interdict ²  so that it cannot be altered, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed. ³ 

Daniel 6:15

6:15 Then those men came by collusion to the king and ⁴  said to him, ⁵  “Recall, ⁶  O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no edict or decree that the king issues can be changed.”

Daniel 6:12

6:12 So they approached the king and said to him, ⁷  “Did you not issue an edict to the effect that for the next thirty days anyone who prays to any god or human other than to you, O king, would be thrown into a den of lions?” The king replied, “That is correct, ⁸  according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.”

¹ sn Peres (פְּרֵס) is the singular form of פַרְסִין (pharsin) in v. 25.

² tn Aram “establish a written interdict and inscribe a written decree.”

³ tn Or “removed.”

³ tc Theodotion lacks the words “came by collusion to the king and.”

⁴ tn Aram “the king.”

⁵ tn Aram “know”; NAB “Keep in mind”; NASB “Recognize”; NIV, NCV “Remember.”

⁴ tc The MT also has “about the edict of the king,” but this phrase is absent in the LXX and the Syriac. The present translation deletes the expression.

⁵ tn Aram “the word is true.”