²Then the king said to call in the ¹^amagicians, the conjurers, the sorcerers, and the ²Chaldeans to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.

³Then the king said to them, “I ¹^ahad a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.”

⁴Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in ¹^aAramaic: “^bO king, live forever! ^cSay the dream to your servants, and we will declare the interpretation.”

⁵The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, “The word from me is firm: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be ¹^atorn limb from limb, and your houses will be made a rubbish heap.

⁶“But if you declare the dream and its interpretation, you will receive from me ^agifts and a reward and great glory; therefore declare to me the dream and its interpretation.”

⁷They answered a second time and said, “Let the king ^asay the dream to his servants, and we will declare the interpretation.”

⁸The king answered and said, “I know for certain that you are buying time, inasmuch as you have seen that the word from me is firm,

⁹that if you do not make the dream known to me, there is only ^aone law for you. Indeed, you have agreed together to speak lying and corrupt ¹words before me until the time is changed; therefore say the dream to me, that I may ^bknow that you can declare to me its interpretation.”

¹⁰The Chaldeans answered ¹the king and said, “There is not a man on earth who is able to declare the matter ²for the king, inasmuch as no great king or powerful ruler has ever asked about a matter like this of any ³^amagician, conjurer, or Chaldean.

¹¹“Moreover, the matter which the king asks is ¹difficult, and there is no one else who could declare it ²to the king except ^agods, whose ^bdwelling place is not with flesh.”

¹²Because of this the king became ^aindignant and very furious and said for them to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

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Footnotes

1Lit dreamed dreams
2Lit was gone upon him
1Or soothsayer priests
2Or master astrologers, so in ch
1Lit dreamed
1The text is in Aramaic from here through 7:28
1Lit made into limbs
1Lit word
1Lit before the
2Lit of
3Or soothsayer priest
1Or rare
2Lit before

Cross references

a Gen 40:5–8; 41:1, 8; Job 33:15–17; Dan 2:3; 4:5
b Esth 6:1; Dan 6:18
a Gen 41:8; Ex 7:11; Is 47:12, 13; Dan 1:20; 2:10, 27; 4:6; 5:7
a Gen 40:8; 41:15; Dan 4:5
a Ezra 4:7; Is 36:11
b Dan 3:9; 5:10
c Dan 2:7
a Ezra 6:11; Dan 2:12; 3:29
a Dan 2:48; 5:7, 16, 29
a Dan 2:4
a Esth 4:11; Dan 3:15
b Is 41:23
a Dan 2:2, 27
a Gen 41:39; Dan 5:11
b Ex 29:45; Is 57:15
a Ps 76:10; Dan 2:5; 3:13, 19