“This is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEQEL, and PHARSIN.

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

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