Daniel 13:59

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁵⁹Daniel said to him, “Very well! This lie has cost you also your head, for the angel of God is waiting with his sword to split^[a] you in two, so as to destroy you both.”

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Daniel 13:59 The Greek words for evergreen oak and split are similar, thus forming an ironic wordplay

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