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16 I heard a person's voice. It was coming across the Ulai river. The voice said, ‘Gabriel, help this man to understand the vision.’ 17 So Gabriel came towards me, where I was standing. I was very afraid and I fell down onto the ground. He said to me, ‘You, as a human, need to understand that the vision is about the end of time.’

18 While Gabriel spoke to me I was lying with my face on the ground. I was asleep. But he touched me and he caused me to stand up.

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16 And I heard a man’s voice from the Ulai(A) calling, “Gabriel,(B) tell this man the meaning of the vision.”(C)

17 As he came near the place where I was standing, I was terrified and fell prostrate.(D) “Son of man,”[a] he said to me, “understand that the vision concerns the time of the end.”(E)

18 While he was speaking to me, I was in a deep sleep, with my face to the ground.(F) Then he touched me and raised me to my feet.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 8:17 The Hebrew phrase ben adam means human being. The phrase son of man is retained as a form of address here because of its possible association with “Son of Man” in the New Testament.