Daniel 5:25-27

Complete Jewish Bible

²⁵and the inscription says, ‘M’ne! M’ne! T’kel ufarsin.’ ^[a] ²⁶This is what it means: ‘M’ne!’ — God has counted up your kingdom and brought it to an end. ²⁷‘T’kel’ — you are weighed on the balance-scale and come up short.

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Footnotes

Daniel 5:25 M’ne — a maneh was a coin; Aramaic mena means “to count.” T’kel is Aramaic for shekel, a unit of weight; Aramaic tekilta means “you are weighed.” P’res (an Aramaic noun, plural parsin), is half a maneh; p’ris means “cut up, divided”; Paras is Persia. (The “f” in ufarsin is the Aramaic letter peh, sometimes pronounced “p” and sometimes, “f.”)