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15 But leave its deepest root in the earth,
    bound with iron and bronze in the field grass.
Dew from heaven is to wash it,
    and it must live with the animals in the earth’s vegetation.
16 Its[a] human mind is to be changed:
    it will be given the mind of an animal.
    Seven periods of time will pass over it.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 4:16 Throughout 4:15-16 and later in this chap, it and its could also be translated he and his.

15 But let the stump and its roots, bound with iron and bronze, remain in the ground, in the grass of the field.

“‘Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and let him live with the animals among the plants of the earth. 16 Let his mind be changed from that of a man and let him be given the mind of an animal, till seven times[a] pass by for him.(A)

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  1. Daniel 4:16 Or years; also in verses 23, 25 and 32