The male goat ¹  is the king of Greece, ²  and the large horn between its eyes is the first king.

On the twenty-fourth day of the first month ¹  I was beside the great river, the Tigris. ² 

At that very moment the fingers of a human hand appeared ¹  and wrote on the plaster of the royal palace wall, opposite the lampstand. ²  The king was watching the back ³  of the hand that was writing.

Then the king of the north ¹  will advance against the empire of the king of the south, but will withdraw to his own land.

until the Ancient of Days arrived and judgment was rendered ¹  in favor of the holy ones of the Most High. Then the time came for the holy ones to take possession of the kingdom.

Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent out a summons to assemble the satraps, prefects, governors, counselors, treasurers, judges, magistrates, ¹  and all the other authorities of the province to attend the dedication of the statue that he ²  had erected.

In the morning, at the earliest sign of daylight, the king got up and rushed to the lions’ den.

So this Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and ¹  the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

The tree grew large and strong. Its top reached far into the sky; it could be seen ¹  from the borders of all the land. ² 

The holy ones ¹  of the Most High will receive the kingdom and will take possession of the kingdom forever and ever.’

When the time appointed by the king arrived, ¹  the overseer of the court officials brought them into Nebuchadnezzar’s presence.

this is the interpretation, O king! It is the decision of the Most High that this has happened to my lord the king.

in the first year of his reign ¹  I, Daniel, came to understand from the sacred books ²  that, according to the word of the LORD ³  disclosed to the prophet Jeremiah, the years for the fulfilling of the desolation of Jerusalem ⁴  were seventy in number.

So King Darius issued the written interdict.

So the satraps, prefects, governors, counselors, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the other provincial authorities assembled for the dedication of the statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had erected. They were standing in front of the statue that Nebuchadnezzar had erected. ¹ 

This was the dream. Now we ¹  will set forth before the king its interpretation.

Then God made the overseer of the court officials sympathetic to Daniel. ¹ 

At the end of the ten days their appearance was better and their bodies were healthier ¹  than all the young men who had been eating the royal delicacies.

It grew so big it reached the army ¹  of heaven, and it brought about the fall of some of the army and some of the stars ²  to the ground, where it trampled them.

He inquired of Arioch the king’s deputy, “Why is the decree from the king so urgent?” ¹  Then Arioch informed Daniel about the matter.