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Daniel 5:27

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27Tekel, jyou have been weighed8 in the balances and found wanting;

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Footnotes

  1. 8Tekel sounds like the Aramaic for weighed

Cross references

  1. jJob 31:6; Ps. 62:9

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

‘Tekel’ means that you have been weighed on the balance and found deficient.

NLTNew Living Translation

Tekel means ‘weighed’—you have been weighed on the balances and have not measured up.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“ ‘Tekel’—you have been weighed on scales and you have been found wanting.

KJV 1900King James Version

TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.