5 Then these men said, “We will never find any charge against this Daniel unless we find something against him concerning the law of his God.”f

6 So the administrators and satraps went together to the king and said to him, “May King Darius live forever.g 7 All the administrators of the kingdomh—the prefects, satraps, advisers, and governors—have agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce an edict that, for thirty days, anyone who petitions any god or man except you, the king, will be thrown into the lions’ den.i