27 Tekēl’—you have been (A)weighed on the scales and found deficient. 28 [a]Perēs’—your kingdom has been divided and given to the (B)Medes and [b]Persians.”

29 Then Belshazzar gave orders, and they (C)clothed 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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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 5:28 Or half-shekel from verb “to divide”
  2. Daniel 5:28 Aram: Pāras

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