All the (A)commissioners of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the high officials and the governors have (B)consulted together that the king should establish a statute and enforce an injunction that anyone who makes a petition to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, shall (C)be cast into the lions’ [a]den. Now, O king, (D)establish the injunction and sign the document so that it may not be changed, according to the (E)law of the Medes and Persians, which [b]may not be revoked.” Therefore King Darius (F)signed the document, that is, the injunction.

10 Now when Daniel knew that the document was signed, he entered his house (now in his roof chamber he had windows open (G)toward Jerusalem); and he continued (H)kneeling on his knees three times a day, (I)praying and (J)giving thanks before his God, [c]as he had been doing previously.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 6:7 Or pit, and so throughout the ch
  2. Daniel 6:8 Lit does not pass away
  3. Daniel 6:10 Or because