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Daniel 5:28

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

Daniel 6:8

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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

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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

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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.”
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[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.”

[6:8]  3 tn Or “removed.”

[6:15]  3 tc Theodotion lacks the words “came by collusion to the king and.”

[6:15]  4 tn Aram “the king.”

[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.

[6:12]  5 tn Aram “the word is true.”



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