3Nebuchadnezzar the king made a statue of gold. Its height was sixty cubits and its width was six cubits; he set it up in the valley of Dura in the province of Babylon. ²Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent directions to assemble the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates and all of the officials of the provinces to come to the dedication of the statue that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. ³Then the satraps, the prefects, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the officials of the province were assembled for the dedication of the statue that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up, and were standing before^a the statue that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. ⁴Then the herald proclaimed aloud,^b “To you it is commanded,^c O peoples, nations and people of all languages,^d ⁵that at the time that you hear the sound of the horn, the flute, the lyre, the trigon, the harp, the drum and all kinds of music, you must fall down and you must worship the statue of gold^e that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up.

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Footnotes

aLiterally “to the front”
bLiterally “with power”
cLiterally “they are saying”
dLiterally “the nations and the languages”
eAramaic “the gold”