Daniel 5
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Daniel 5:25-29

25“Now this is the inscription that was written: ‘1Menē, 2Menē, 3Tekēl, 4Upharsin.’ 26This is the interpretation of the 5message: ‘Menē’--God has numbered your kingdom and 6put an end to it. 27‘Tekēl’--you have been 7weighed on the scales and found deficient. 28‘8Perēs’--your kingdom has been divided and given to the 9Medes and 10Persians.”

29Then Belshazzar gave orders, and they 11clothed Daniel with purple and put a necklace of gold around his neck, and issued a proclamation concerning him that he now had authority as the third ruler in the kingdom.

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  1. 1. Daniel 5:25 Or a mina (50 shekels) from verb “to count” ↩
  2. 2. Daniel 5:25 Or a mina (50 shekels) from verb “to count” ↩
  3. 3. Daniel 5:25 Or a shekel from verb “to weigh” ↩
  4. 4. Daniel 5:25 Or and half-shekels (singular: perēs) from verb “to divide” ↩
  5. 5. Daniel 5:26 Lit word ↩
  6. 6. Daniel 5:26 Is 13:6, 17-19; Jer 50:41-43 ↩
  7. 7. Daniel 5:27 Job 31:6; Ps 62:9 ↩
  8. 8. Daniel 5:28 Or half-shekel from verb “to divide” ↩
  9. 9. Daniel 5:28 Is 13:17; 21:2; 45:1, 2; Dan 5:31; 6:8, 28; Acts 2:9 ↩
  10. 10. Daniel 5:28 Aram: Pāras ↩
  11. 11. Daniel 5:29 Dan 5:7, 16 ↩

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