Daniel 5:25-31
New American Standard Bible
25 “Now this is the inscription that was written:
26 This is the interpretation of the [e]message: ‘Menē’—God has numbered your kingdom and (A)put an end to it. 27 ‘Tekēl’—you have been (B)weighed on the scales and found deficient. 28 ‘[f]Perēs’—your kingdom has been divided and given to the (C)Medes and [g]Persians.”
29 Then Belshazzar gave orders, and they (D)clothed Daniel with purple and put a necklace of gold around his neck, and issued a proclamation concerning him that he now had authority as the third ruler in the kingdom.
30 That same night (E)Belshazzar the Chaldean king was (F)killed. 31 [h]So (G)Darius the Mede received the kingdom at about the age of sixty-two.
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- Daniel 5:25 Or a mina (50 shekels) from verb “to count”
- Daniel 5:25 Or a mina (50 shekels) from verb “to count”
- Daniel 5:25 Or a shekel from verb “to weigh”
- Daniel 5:25 Or and half-shekels (singular: perēs) from verb “to divide”
- Daniel 5:26 Lit word
- Daniel 5:28 Or half-shekel from verb “to divide”
- Daniel 5:28 Aram: Pāras
- Daniel 5:31 Ch 6:1 in Aram
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