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28 “Peres”[a][b] means that your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.’[c]

29 Then Belshazzar gave an order, and they clothed Daniel in purple, placed a gold chain round his neck,(A) and issued a proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

30 That very night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was killed,

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Footnotes

  1. 5:28 Or half a shekel
  2. 5:28 In Aramaic, the word peres is the sg form of ‘parsin’ in v. 25.
  3. 5:28 The Aramaic word for divided and Persians sounds like peres.