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Daniel 5:28-30
English Standard Version
Daniel 5:28-30
English Standard Version
28 Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to (A)the Medes and (B)Persians.”[a]
29 Then (C)Belshazzar gave the command, and Daniel (D)was clothed with purple, a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation was made about him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
30 (E)That very night (F)Belshazzar the (G)Chaldean king was killed.
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- Daniel 5:28 Peres (the singular of Parsin) sounds like the Aramaic for divided and for Persia
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