Daniel 5
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Daniel 5:25-31

25And this is the writing that was inscribed: Mene, Mene, Tekel, and Parsin.

26This is the interpretation of the matter: Mene, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end;

27Tekel, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting;

28Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians."

29Then Belshazzar gave the command, and Daniel was clothed with purple, a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation was made about him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

30That very night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was killed.

31And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.

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