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Daniel 5:28-30
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28 Divided—your kingdom will be divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”[a]

29 Then Belshazzar ordered that Daniel be dressed in purple and wear a gold chain on his neck. He made Daniel the third-highest ruler in the kingdom. 30 That night King Belshazzar of Babylon was killed.[b]

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  1. Daniel 5:28 There is a play on words here between Aramaic peres (divided) and paras (Persians).
  2. Daniel 5:30 Daniel 5:31 in English Bibles is Daniel 6:1 in the Hebrew Bible.
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Daniel 5:28-30
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28 Peres[a]: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes(A) and Persians.”(B)

29 Then at Belshazzar’s command, Daniel was clothed in purple, a gold chain was placed around his neck,(C) and he was proclaimed the third highest ruler in the kingdom.(D)

30 That very night Belshazzar,(E) king(F) of the Babylonians,[b] was slain,(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 5:28 Peres (the singular of Parsin) can mean divided or Persia or a half mina or a half shekel.
  2. Daniel 5:30 Or Chaldeans
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