¹ tn Or “be absent.”

¹ tc This expression is absent in Theodotion.

¹ tc Verse 30 is absent in most LXX mss.

⁴ tc The phrase “his negligence” is absent from the LXX.

¹ tc This phrase, repeated from v. 1, is absent in Theodotion.

² tc The phrase “of the families of Manasseh” is absent from the Latin Vulgate.

¹ tc The final sentence of v. 21 is absent in most LXX mss.

² tc The final sentence of v. 29 is absent in most LXX mss.

¹ tc The last sentence of v. 25 is absent in the Syriac Peshitta.

¹ tc The MT adds “at the living beings” which is absent from the LXX.

¹ tc The phrase “as he spoke to me” is absent from the LXX.

¹ tc Heb “the men,” which is absent from one medieval Hebrew ms, a Qumran ms, and the LXX.

¹ tc This statement is absent in the LXX (with the exception of Origen), an Old Latin ms, and the Syriac Peshitta.

³ tc The words “it will be,” though present in the MT, are absent from the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate.

² tc The Old Greek translation includes after v. 35 some fourteen verses that are absent from the MT.

⁴ tn Aram “head of words.” The phrase is absent in Theodotion. Cf. NIV “the substance of his dream.”

¹ tc Heb “I heard the sound of his words.” These words are absent in the LXX and the Syriac.

¹ sn The Assyrians’ conquests were relatively unopposed, like robbing a bird’s nest of its eggs when the mother bird is absent.

¹ tc The phrase “along with their entire bodies” is absent from the LXX and may be a gloss explaining the following words.

¹ 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.