Daniel 5:28
Context5:28 As for peres 1 – your kingdom is divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”
Daniel 6:8
Context6:8 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
Context6:15 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
Context6:12 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.”


[5:28] 1 sn Peres (פְּרֵס) is the singular form of פַרְסִין (pharsin) in v. 25.
[6:8] 2 tn Aram “establish a written interdict and inscribe a written decree.”
[6:15] 3 tc Theodotion lacks the words “came by collusion to the king and.”
[6:15] 5 tn Aram “know”; NAB “Keep in mind”; NASB “Recognize”; NIV, NCV “Remember.”
[6:12] 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.