Daniel 6:6-8

Contemporary English Version

⁶ They all went to the king and said:

“Your Majesty, we hope you live forever! ^7 (A) All of your officials, leaders, advisors, and governors agree that you should make a law forbidding anyone to pray to any god or human except you for the next 30 days. Everyone who disobeys this law must be thrown into a pit of lions. ⁸ Order this to be written and then sign it, so it cannot be changed, just as no written law of the Medes and Persians can be changed.”