28 Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to (A)the Medes and (B)Persians.”[a]

29 Then (C)Belshazzar gave the command, and Daniel (D)was clothed with purple, a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation was made about him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

30 (E)That very night (F)Belshazzar the (G)Chaldean king was killed.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 5:28 Peres (the singular of Parsin) sounds like the Aramaic for divided and for Persia

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