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Daniel 12:1–7

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12:1“At that time Michael,

the great prince who watches over your people,1

will arise.2

There will be a time of distress

unlike any other from the nation’s beginning3

up to that time.

But at that time your own people,

all those whose names are4 found written in the book,

will escape.

12:2Many of those who sleep

in the dusty ground will awake—

some to everlasting life,

and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence.5

12:3But the wise will shine

like the brightness of the heavenly expanse.

And those bringing many to righteousness

will be like the stars forever and ever.

12:4“But you, Daniel, close up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will dash about,6 and knowledge will increase.”

12:5I, Daniel, watched as two others stood there, one on each side of the river.712:6One said to the man clothed in linen who was above the waters of the river, “When will the end of these wondrous events occur?” 12:7Then I heard the man clothed in linen who was over the waters of the river as he raised both his right and left hands to the sky8 and made an oath by the one who lives forever: “It is for a time, times, and half a time. Then, when the power of the one who shatters9 the holy people has been exhausted, all these things will be finished.”

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Daniel 12:3: And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.

Footnotes

  1. 1 Heb “stands over the sons of your people.”
  2. 2 Heb “will stand up.”
  3. 3 Or “from the beginning of a nation.”
  4. 4 The words “whose names are” are added in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarification.
  5. 5 This verse is the only undisputed reference to a literal resurrection found in the Hebrew Bible.
  6. 6 Or “will run back and forth”; “shall run to and fro”; “will go here and there”; “will go everywhere.” Many will dash about is probably an allusion to Amos 8:12.
  7. 7 Heb “one to this edge of the river and one to that edge of the river.”
  8. 8 Or “to the heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heavens” or “sky” depending on the context.
  9. 9 The present translation reads יַד־נֹפֵץ (yad-nofets, “hand of one who shatters”) rather than the נַפֵּץ־יַד (nappets-yad, “to shatter the hand”).

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