Daniel 5:25

5:25 “This is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, ¹  TEQEL, and PHARSIN. ² 

Daniel 5:24

5:24 Therefore the palm of a hand was sent from him, and this writing was inscribed.

Daniel 6:9

6:9 So King Darius issued the written interdict.

Daniel 6:8

6:8 Now let the king issue a written interdict ³  so that it cannot be altered, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed. ⁴ 

Daniel 6:13

6:13 Then they said to the king, “Daniel, who is one of the captives ⁵  from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king, or to the edict that you issued. Three times daily he offers his prayer.” ⁶ 

Daniel 6:10

6:10 When Daniel realized ⁷  that a written decree had been issued, he entered his home, where the windows ⁸  in his upper room opened toward Jerusalem. ⁹  Three ¹⁰  times daily he was ¹¹  kneeling ¹²  and offering prayers and thanks to his God just as he had been accustomed to do previously.

Daniel 6:12

6:12 So they approached the king and said to him, ¹³  “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, ¹⁴  according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.”

[5:25]  ¹ tc The Greek version of Theodotion lacks the repetition of מְנֵא (mÿne’, cf. NAB).

[5:25]  ² tc The Aramaic word is plural. Theodotion has the singular (cf. NAB “PERES”).

[6:8]  ³ tn Aram “establish a written interdict and inscribe a written decree.”

[6:8]  ⁴ tn Or “removed.”

[6:13]  ⁵ tn Aram “from the sons of the captivity [of].”

[6:13]  ⁶ tn Aram “prays his prayer.”

[6:10]  ⁷ tn Aram “knew.”

[6:10]  ⁸ sn In later rabbinic thought this verse was sometimes cited as a proof text for the notion that one should pray only in a house with windows. See b. Berakhot 34b.

[6:10]  ⁹ map For the location of Jerusalem see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[6:10]  ¹⁰ sn This is apparently the only specific mention in the OT of prayer being regularly offered three times a day. The practice was probably not unique to Daniel, however.

[6:10]  ¹¹ tc Read with several medieval Hebrew MSS and printed editions הֲוָה (havah) rather than the MT הוּא (hu’).

[6:10]  ¹² tn Aram “kneeling on his knees” (so NASB).

[6:12]  ⁹ 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.

[6:12]  ¹⁰ tn Aram “the word is true.”