²³ In that the king saw an angelic watcher, a holy one, descending from heaven and saying, “^(A)Chop down the tree and destroy it; yet leave the stump ^[a]with its roots in the ground, but with a band of iron and bronze around it in the new grass of the field, and let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and let ^[b]him share with the beasts of the field until ^(B)seven ^[c]periods of time pass over him,”