¹¹ “All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that for any man or woman who ^(A)comes to the king in the inner courtyard, who is not summoned, ^(B)he has only one law, that he be put to death, unless the king holds out ^(C)to him the golden scepter so that he may live. And I have not been summoned to come to the king for these thirty days.”

¹⁵ Now if you are ready, ^(A)at the moment you hear the sound of the horn, flute, ^[a]lyre, trigon, psaltery and bagpipe, and all kinds of musical instruments, to fall down and worship the statue that I have made, very well. But if you do not worship, you will ^[b]immediately be ^(B)thrown into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire; and ^(C)what god is there who can rescue you from my hands?”