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Daniel 2:13-14

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2:13 So a decree went out, and the wise men were about 1  to be executed. They also sought 2  Daniel and his friends so that they could be executed.

2:14 Then Daniel spoke with prudent counsel 3  to Arioch, who was in charge of the king’s executioners and who had gone out to execute the wise men of Babylon.

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[2:13]  1 tn The Aramaic participle is used here to express the imminent future.

[2:13]  2 tn The impersonal active plural (“they sought”) of the Aramaic verb could also be translated as an English passive: “Daniel and his friends were sought” (cf. NAB).

[2:14]  3 tn Aram “returned prudence and counsel.” The expression is a hendiadys.



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