These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Daniel 5
Tanakh 31 verses
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Belshazzar the made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
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- 2 Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father had taken out of the which was in ; that the and his lords, his consorts and his concubines, might drink therein.
- 3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the of the house of which was at ; and the , and his lords, his consorts and his concubines, drank in them.
- 4 They drank wine, and praised the Elohims of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
- 5 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace; and the saw the palm of the hand that wrote.
- 6 Then the king’s countenance was changed in him, and his thoughts affrighted him; and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
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The cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers. The spoke and said to the wise men of : ‘Whosoever shall read this writing, and declare unto me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall rule as one of three in the .’
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Then came in all the king’s wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the the interpretation.
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- 9 Then was Belshazzar greatly affrighted, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were perplexed.
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Now the queen by reason of the words of the and his lords came into the banquet house; the queen spoke and said: ‘O , live for ever! let not thy thoughts affright thee, nor let thy countenance be changed;
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- 11 there is a man in thy , in whom is the of the Elohims; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the Elohims, was found in him; and the thy father, the , I say, thy father, made him master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and astrologers;
- 12 forasmuch as a surpassing , and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and declaring of riddles, and loosing of knots, were found in the same , whom the named Belteshazzar. Now let be called, and he will declare the interpretation.’
- 13 Then was brought in before the . The spoke and said unto : ‘Art thou , who is of the children of the captivity of , whom the my father brought out of ?
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I have heard of thee, that the of the Elohims is in thee, and that light and understanding and surpassing wisdom is found in thee.
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And now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof; but they could not declare the interpretation of the thing.
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But I have heard of thee, that thou canst give interpretations, and loose knots; now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt rule as one of three in the .’
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Then answered and said before the : ‘Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; nevertheless I will read the writing unto the , and make known to him the interpretation.
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- 18 O thou , Most High gave thy father the , and greatness, and , and majesty;
- 19 and because of the greatness that He gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew, and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he raised up, and whom he would he put down.
- 20 But when his was lifted up, and his was hardened that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and his was taken from him;
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and he was driven from the sons of men, and his was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses; he was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of ; until he knew that Most High ruleth in the of men, and that He setteth up over it whomsoever He will.
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- 22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thy , though thou knewest all this;
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but hast lifted up thyself against of ; and they have brought the vessels of His house before thee, and thou and thy lords, thy consorts and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the Elohims of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor , nor ; and the in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified;
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Jeremiah 10:23 Job 12:10 Daniel 4:37 Psalm 115:4-8 Job 31:4 Jeremiah 50:29 Habakkuk 2:18-19 Proverbs 20:24 Isaiah 37:23 Isaiah 2:12 Isaiah 37:19 2 Kings 14:10 Psalm 139:3 Hebrews 4:13 Revelation 13:5-6 1 Corinthians 8:4 1 Timothy 3:6 Romans 1:21-23 Ezekiel 31:10 Ezekiel 28:5 Genesis 2:7 Habakkuk 2:4 Psalm 146:4 Isaiah 46:6-7 Ezekiel 28:2 Psalm 104:29 Acts 17:25 Psalm 115:16 Isaiah 33:10 Genesis 14:19 Daniel 5:2-4 Acts 17:28-29 Psalm 135:15-17 Job 34:14-15 Isaiah 42:5 Judges 16:23 1 Samuel 5:1-9 Ezekiel 28:17 -
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then was the palm of the hand sent from before Him, and this writing was inscribed.
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- 25 And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE MENE, TEKEL UPHARSIN.
- 26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, hath numbered thy , and brought it to an end.
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TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
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PERES, thy is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.’
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Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should rule as one of three in the .
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In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean was slain.
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And Darius the Mede received the , being about threescore and two years old.
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