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Daniel 5:3-5

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5:3 So they brought the gold and silver 1  vessels that had been confiscated from the temple, the house of God 2  in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, together with his wives and concubines, drank from them. 5:4 As they drank wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

5:5 At that very moment the fingers of a human hand appeared 3  and wrote on the plaster of the royal palace wall, opposite the lampstand. 4  The king was watching the back 5  of the hand that was writing.

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[5:3]  1 tc The present translation reads וְכַסְפָּא (vÿkhaspa’, “and the silver”) with Theodotion and the Vulgate. Cf. v. 2. The form was probably accidentally dropped from the Aramaic text by homoioteleuton.

[5:3]  2 tn Aram “the temple of the house of God.” The phrase seems rather awkward. The Vulgate lacks “of the house of God,” while Theodotion and the Syriac lack “the house.”

[5:5]  3 tn Aram “came forth.”

[5:5]  4 sn The mention of the lampstand in this context is of interest because it suggests that the writing was in clear view.

[5:5]  5 tn While Aramaic פַּס (pas) can mean the palm of the hand, here it seems to be the back of the hand that is intended.



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