Daniel 5
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Daniel 5:4-6

4As they drank wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

5At that very moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the royal palace wall, opposite the lampstand. The king was watching the back of the hand that was writing.

6Then all the color drained from the king’s face and he became alarmed. The joints of his hips gave way, and his knees began knocking together.

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