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Since their days are determined,
    and the number of their months is known to you,
    and you have appointed the bounds that they cannot pass,(A)

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A person’s days are determined;(A)
    you have decreed the number of his months(B)
    and have set limits he cannot exceed.(C)

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Lord, let me know my end
    and what is the measure of my days;
    let me know how fleeting my life is.(A)

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“Show me, Lord, my life’s end
    and the number of my days;(A)
    let me know how fleeting(B) my life is.(C)

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26 From one ancestor[a] he made all peoples to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live,(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 17.26 Gk From one; other ancient authorities read From one blood

26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.(A)

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27 And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once and after that the judgment,(A)

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27 Just as people are destined to die once,(A) and after that to face judgment,(B)

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10 In his hand is the life of every living thing
    and the breath of every human being.(A)

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10 In his hand is the life(A) of every creature
    and the breath of all mankind.(B)

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29 When you hide your face, they are dismayed;
    when you take away their breath, they die
    and return to their dust.(A)

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29 When you hide your face,(A)
    they are terrified;
when you take away their breath,
    they die and return to the dust.(B)

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21 For what do they care for their household after them,
    when the number of their months is cut off?

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21 For what do they care about the families they leave behind(A)
    when their allotted months(B) come to an end?(C)

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20 But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’(A)

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20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool!(A) This very night your life will be demanded from you.(B) Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’(C)

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26 This is the interpretation of the matter: mene: God has numbered the days of[a] your kingdom and brought it to an end;(A)

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  1. 5.26 Aram lacks the days of

26 “Here is what these words mean:

Mene[a]: God has numbered the days(A) of your reign and brought it to an end.(B)

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  1. Daniel 5:26 Mene can mean numbered or mina (a unit of money).

13 But he stands alone, and who can dissuade him?
    What he desires, that he does.(A)
14 For he will complete what he appoints for me,
    and many such things are in his mind.(B)

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13 “But he stands alone, and who can oppose him?(A)
    He does whatever he pleases.(B)
14 He carries out his decree against me,
    and many such plans he still has in store.(C)

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You set a boundary that they may not pass,
    so that they might not again cover the earth.(A)

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You set a boundary(A) they cannot cross;
    never again will they cover the earth.

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30 That very night Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was killed.(A)

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30 That very night Belshazzar,(A) king(B) of the Babylonians,[a] was slain,(C)

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  1. Daniel 5:30 Or Chaldeans

35 All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,
    and he does what he wills with the host of heaven
    and the inhabitants of the earth.
There is no one who can stay his hand
    or say to him, “What have you done?”(A)

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35 All the peoples of the earth
    are regarded as nothing.(A)
He does as he pleases(B)
    with the powers of heaven
    and the peoples of the earth.
No one can hold back(C) his hand(D)
    or say to him: “What have you done?”(E)

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