²³ “Your Majesty saw a holy one,^(A) a messenger, coming down from heaven and saying, ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump, bound with iron and bronze, in the grass of the field, while its roots remain in the ground. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven; let him live with the wild animals, until seven times pass by for him.’^(B)

¹⁶ Let his mind be changed from that of a man and let him be given the mind of an animal, till seven times^[a] pass by for him.^(A)