Daniel 5:31

5:31 (6:1) ¹  So Darius the Mede took control of the kingdom when he was about sixty-two years old.

Daniel 7:1

Daniel has a Vision of Four Animals Coming up from the Sea

7:1 In the first ²  year of King Belshazzar of Babylon, Daniel had ³  a dream filled with visions ⁴  while he was lying on his bed. Then he wrote down the dream in summary fashion. ⁵ 

¹ sn Beginning with 5:31, the verse numbers through 6:28 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Aramaic text (BHS), with 5:31 ET = 6:1 AT, 6:1 ET = 6:2 AT, 6:2 ET = 6:3 AT, 6:3 ET = 6:4 AT, etc., through 6:28 ET = 6:29 AT. Beginning with 7:1 the verse numbers in the English Bible and the Aramaic text are again the same.

² sn The first year of Belshazzar’s reign would have been ca. 553 B.C. Daniel would have been approximately 67 years old at the time of this vision.

³ tn Aram “saw.”

⁴ tn Aram “and visions of his head.” The Aramaic is difficult here. Some scholars add a verb thought to be missing (e.g., “the visions of his head [were alarming him]”), but there is no external evidence to support such a decision and the awkwardness of the text at this point may be original.

⁵ tn Aram “head of words.” The phrase is absent in Theodotion. Cf. NIV “the substance of his dream.”