Daniel 2:3–9

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

⁴Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in ^1aAramaic: “^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 ^1atorn 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.”