Daniel 6:1–7

¹It hath been good before Darius, and he hath established over the kingdom satraps—a hundred and twenty—that they may be throughout the whole kingdom, ²and higher than they three presidents, of whom Daniel is first, that these satraps may give to them an account, and the king have no loss. ³Then this Daniel hath been overseer over the presidents and satraps, because that an excellent spirit is in him, and the king hath thought to establish him over the whole kingdom. ⁴Then the presidents and satraps have been seeking to find a cause of complaint against Daniel concerning the kingdom, and any cause of complaint and corruption they are not able to find, because that he is faithful, and any error and corruption have not been found in him. ⁵Then these men are saying, ‘We do not find against this Daniel any cause of complaint, except we have found it against him in the law of his God.’

⁶Then these presidents and satraps have assembled near the king, and thus they are saying to him: ‘O king Darius, to the ages live! ⁷Taken counsel have all the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects, and the satraps, the counsellors, and the governors, to establish a royal statute, and to strengthen an interdict, that any who seeketh a petition from any god and man until thirty days, save of thee, O king, is cast into a den of lions.