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13 Then they went to remind the king about the prohibition: “Did you not sign a decree, O king, that for thirty days, whoever makes a petition to anyone, divine or human, except to you, O king, shall be cast into a den of lions?” The king answered them, “The decree is absolute, irrevocable under the law of the Medes and Persians.”

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13 Then they answered and said before the king, (A)“Daniel, who is one (B)of the exiles (C)from Judah, (D)pays no attention to you, O king, or (E)the injunction you have signed, but makes his petition (F)three times a day.”

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