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Daniel 5:1-2
Lexham English Bible

The Mysterious Writing on the Wall

5 Belshazzar the king made a great festival for a thousand of his lords,[a] and in the presence of[b] the thousand lords he was drinking wine.[c] 2 When he tasted the wine,[d] Belshazzar commanded that they bring the vessels of gold and silver that Nebuchadnezzar his predecessor[e] had taken from the temple that was in Jerusalem, so that the king and his lords,[f] his wives and his concubines may drink from them.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 5:1 Or “nobles”
  2. Daniel 5:1 Literally “to over against”
  3. Daniel 5:1 Or “the wine”
  4. Daniel 5:2 Literally “At the taste of the wine”
  5. Daniel 5:2 Literally “father”
  6. Daniel 5:2 Or “nobles”
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