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Daniel 2:11-13
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11 What the king is asking is too difficult, and no one exists who can disclose it to the king, except for the gods—but they don’t live among mortals!”[a]

12 Because of this the king got furiously angry[b] and gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon. 13 So a decree went out, and the wise men were about[c] to be executed. They also sought[d] Daniel and his friends so that they could be executed.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 2:11 tn Aram “whose dwelling is not with flesh.”
  2. Daniel 2:12 tn Aram “was angry and very furious.” The expression is a hendiadys (two words or phrases expressing a single idea).
  3. Daniel 2:13 tn The Aramaic participle is used here to express the imminent future.
  4. Daniel 2:13 tn The impersonal active plural (“they sought”) of the Aramaic verb could also be translated as an English passive: “Daniel and his friends were sought” (cf. NAB).
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