⁷ Then the commander of the officials assigned new names to them; and to Daniel he assigned the name ^(A)Belteshazzar, to Hananiah ^(B)Shadrach, to Mishael ^(C)Meshach, and to Azariah ^(D)Abed-nego.

⁸ But finally Daniel came in before me, whose name is ^(A)Belteshazzar according to the name of my god, and in whom is ^[a](B)a spirit of the holy gods; and I related the dream ^[b]to him, saying,

¹² This was because an ^(A)extraordinary spirit, knowledge and insight, interpretation of dreams, explanation of riddles, and solving of difficult problems were found in this Daniel, whom the king named ^(B)Belteshazzar. Let Daniel now be summoned and he will declare the interpretation.”