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Y, mientras bebían, alababan a sus dioses de oro y de plata, de bronce y de hierro, de leño y de piedra.

En aquel momento apareció una mano humana que, con sus dedos, se puso a escribir, a la luz del candelabro, en la cal de la pared del palacio real. Cuando el rey vio la mano que escribía, palideció y quedó aturdido, incapaz de sostenerse, con las rodillas temblando.

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As they drank the wine, they praised the gods(A) of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.(B)

Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote. His face turned pale(C) and he was so frightened(D) that his legs became weak(E) and his knees were knocking.(F)

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They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.

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