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DREAMS OF NEBUKADNETS TSAR
And in the second year of the sovereigndom of Nebukadnets Tsar, Nebukadnets Tsar dreams dreams which agitate his spirit; and his sleep breaks from him: 2 and the sovereign says to call the horoscopists and the enchanters and the sorcerers and the Kesediym to tell the sovereign his dreams. And they come and stand at the face of the sovereign: 3 and the sovereign says to them, I dreamed a dream and my spirit agitates to know the dream. 4 And the Kesediym word to the sovereign in Aramaic, O sovereign, live eternally: say the dream to your servants and we show the interpretation. 5 The sovereign answers and says to the Kesediym, The utterance is gone from me: if you make not known to me the dream with the interpretation, they serve you in pieces, and set your houses a cesspool: 6 and if you show the dream and the interpretation, you take from in front of me gifts and largess and great esteem: so show me the dream and the interpretation. 7 They answer secondly and say, May the sovereign say the dream to his servants and we show the interpretation thereof. 8 The sovereign answers and says, I know for certain that you are gaining time, because you see the utterance is gone from me: 9 and if you not make known to me the dream - one decree for you: for you prepare false and ruinous utterances to say in front of me, until the change of time: so say to me the dream, so that I know you show me the interpretation. 10 The Kesediym answer in front of the sovereign, and say, There is not a man on the dry who can show the utterance of the sovereign: because no sovereign, great, or dominator, asks utterances as these of any horoscopist or enchanter or Kesediym: 11 and it is an esteemed utterance the sovereign asks; and there is no one other who can show it in front of the sovereign - except the elahim who whirl not with flesh. 12 So the sovereign rages - very enraged; and says to destroy all the magi of Babel: 13 and the decree emerges to sever the magi; and they request to sever Dani El and his companions. 14 Then Dani El responds with counsel and taste to Aryoch the great of the slaughterers of the sovereign - who emerges to sever the magi of Babel. 15 He answers Aryoch the dominator of the sovereign, and says, Why is the decree in front of the sovereign so severe? Then Aryoch makes the utterance known to Dani El: 16 and Dani El enters, and requests of the sovereign to give him an appointment, to show the sovereign the interpretation. 17 Then Dani El goes to his house, and makes the utterance known to Hanan Yah, Misha El, and Azar Yah his companions: 18 to request mercies in front of Elah of the heavens concerning this mystery; so that Dani El and his companions not destruct with the remainder of the magi of Babel. 19
DANI EL EXPOSES THE MYSTERY
Then in a night vision the mystery is exposed to Dani El; and Dani El blesses Elah of the heavens: 20 Dani El answers and says, Blessed - the name of Elah from eternity to eternity: for wisdom and might are his: 21 and he changes the times and the seasons: he passes sovereigns by, and raises sovereigns: he gives wisdom to the magi, and perception to them who know discernment: 22 he exposes the profound and the hidden: he knows what is in the darkness, and releases the light. 23 I thank you, and laud you, O you, Elah of my fathers, who gives me wisdom and might and now makes known to me what we request of you: that you make known to us the utterance of the sovereign. 24 So Dani El enters to Aryoch, whom the sovereign numbered to destroy the magi of Babel: he goes and says thus to him: Destroy not the magi of Babel: enter me in front of the sovereign and I show the interpretation to the sovereign. 25 Then Aryoch hastily enters Dani El in front of the sovereign, and says thus to him, I found a mighty one of the sons of the exiles of Yah Hudah to make known the interpretation to the sovereign. 26 The sovereign answers and says to Dani El - whose name is Belte Shats Tsar, Are you able to make known to me the dream I saw? - and the interpretation? 27 Dani El answers in front of the sovereign, and says, The mystery the sovereign asks the magi, the enchanters, the horoscopists, the discerners, cannot show to the sovereign; 28 but there is an Elah in the heavens who exposes mysteries, and makes known to sovereign Nebukadnets Tsar what becomes in the final days. Your dream and the visions of your head on your bed are these: 29 As for you, O sovereign, the intentions that ascended on your bed, What becomes after this? - and he who exposes mysteries makes known to you what becomes. 30 As for me, this mystery is not exposed to me for wisdom that I have in me any more than for any one living, but for words to make the interpretation known to the sovereign, so that you know the intentions of your heart. 31
DANI EL RECALLS THE MYSTERY
You, O sovereign, saw, and behold, one great image - this great image whose excellent cheerfulness rises in front of you: and the appearance terrifies. 32 This head of the image, of fine gold; his breast and his arms, of silver; his inwards and his flanks, of copper; 33 his legs, of iron; his feet, of iron and of clay: 34 you see until a stone is cut - not by hands which strikes the image on his feet of iron and clay and pulverizes them: 35 then the iron, the clay, the copper, the silver and the gold pulverize as one, and become as the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind bears them, and no place is found for them: and the stone that strikes the image becomes a great rock and fills the whole earth. 36
DANI EL INTERPRETS THE MYSTERY
This is the dream and we say the interpretation in front of the sovereign: 37 You, O sovereign, are a sovereign of sovereigns: for Elah of the heavens gives you a sovereigndom - power and empowerment and esteem: 38 and everywhere the sons of men whirl; and he gives the live beings of the field and the flyers of the heavens into your hand, and has you dominate over them all: you are this head of gold. 39 And in your stead rises another sovereigndom of earth and another, a third sovereigndom of copper who dominates over all the earth. 40 And the fourth sovereigndom becomes mighty as iron: because as iron pulverizes and crushes all: and as iron shatters all these, it pulverizes and shatters. 41 And as to what you saw - the feet and digits, of clay of the potters, and of iron, the sovereigndom becomes divided; for the strength of the iron becomes therein just as you saw the iron comingled with miry clay. 42 And the digits of the feet, of iron and of clay, thus the sovereigndom - becomes mighty, and becomes partly broken. 43 And as you saw iron comingled with miry clay, they become comingled with the seed of men: but they become not this with that - behold, as iron is not comingled with clay. 44 And in the days of these sovereigns Elah of the heavens raises a sovereigndom, which despoils not eternally: and the sovereigndom is not left to other people, it pulverizes and consumes all these sovereigndoms and it is raised eternally. 45 Because, as you saw, the stone cut from the rock, not by hands, and it pulverizes the iron, the copper, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great Elah makes known to the sovereign what becomes after this: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation trustworthy. 46
NEBUKADNETS TSAR PROMOTES DANI EL
Then sovereign Nebukadnets Tsar falls on his face, and prostrates to Dani El, and says for them to libate an offering and savour of rest to him. 47 The sovereign answers Dani El, and says, Of a truth, your Elah is an Elah of elahim, and a master of sovereigns, and an exposer of mysteries, that you can expose this mystery. 48 Then the sovereign greatens Dani El and gives him many great gifts; and has him dominate over the whole jurisdiction of Babel and the great of the prefects - over all the magi of Babel. 49 And Dani El requests of the sovereign, and he numbers Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed Nego over the service of the jurisdiction of Babel: and Dani El in the portal of the sovereign.
DREAMS OF NEBUKADNETS TSAR
And in the second year of the sovereigndom of Nebukadnets Tsar, Nebukadnets Tsar dreams dreams which agitate his spirit; and his sleep breaks from him: 2 and the sovereign says to call the horoscopists and the enchanters and the sorcerers and the Kesediym to tell the sovereign his dreams. And they come and stand at the face of the sovereign: 3 and the sovereign says to them, I dreamed a dream and my spirit agitates to know the dream. 4 And the Kesediym word to the sovereign in Aramaic, O sovereign, live eternally: say the dream to your servants and we show the interpretation. 5 The sovereign answers and says to the Kesediym, The utterance is gone from me: if you make not known to me the dream with the interpretation, they serve you in pieces, and set your houses a cesspool: 6 and if you show the dream and the interpretation, you take from in front of me gifts and largess and great esteem: so show me the dream and the interpretation. 7 They answer secondly and say, May the sovereign say the dream to his servants and we show the interpretation thereof. 8 The sovereign answers and says, I know for certain that you are gaining time, because you see the utterance is gone from me: 9 and if you not make known to me the dream - one decree for you: for you prepare false and ruinous utterances to say in front of me, until the change of time: so say to me the dream, so that I know you show me the interpretation. 10 The Kesediym answer in front of the sovereign, and say, There is not a man on the dry who can show the utterance of the sovereign: because no sovereign, great, or dominator, asks utterances as these of any horoscopist or enchanter or Kesediym: 11 and it is an esteemed utterance the sovereign asks; and there is no one other who can show it in front of the sovereign - except the elahim who whirl not with flesh. 12 So the sovereign rages - very enraged; and says to destroy all the magi of Babel: 13 and the decree emerges to sever the magi; and they request to sever Dani El and his companions. 14 Then Dani El responds with counsel and taste to Aryoch the great of the slaughterers of the sovereign - who emerges to sever the magi of Babel. 15 He answers Aryoch the dominator of the sovereign, and says, Why is the decree in front of the sovereign so severe? Then Aryoch makes the utterance known to Dani El: 16 and Dani El enters, and requests of the sovereign to give him an appointment, to show the sovereign the interpretation. 17 Then Dani El goes to his house, and makes the utterance known to Hanan Yah, Misha El, and Azar Yah his companions: 18 to request mercies in front of Elah of the heavens concerning this mystery; so that Dani El and his companions not destruct with the remainder of the magi of Babel. 19
DANI EL EXPOSES THE MYSTERY
Then in a night vision the mystery is exposed to Dani El; and Dani El blesses Elah of the heavens: 20 Dani El answers and says, Blessed - the name of Elah from eternity to eternity: for wisdom and might are his: 21 and he changes the times and the seasons: he passes sovereigns by, and raises sovereigns: he gives wisdom to the magi, and perception to them who know discernment: 22 he exposes the profound and the hidden: he knows what is in the darkness, and releases the light. 23 I thank you, and laud you, O you, Elah of my fathers, who gives me wisdom and might and now makes known to me what we request of you: that you make known to us the utterance of the sovereign. 24 So Dani El enters to Aryoch, whom the sovereign numbered to destroy the magi of Babel: he goes and says thus to him: Destroy not the magi of Babel: enter me in front of the sovereign and I show the interpretation to the sovereign. 25 Then Aryoch hastily enters Dani El in front of the sovereign, and says thus to him, I found a mighty one of the sons of the exiles of Yah Hudah to make known the interpretation to the sovereign. 26 The sovereign answers and says to Dani El - whose name is Belte Shats Tsar, Are you able to make known to me the dream I saw? - and the interpretation? 27 Dani El answers in front of the sovereign, and says, The mystery the sovereign asks the magi, the enchanters, the horoscopists, the discerners, cannot show to the sovereign; 28 but there is an Elah in the heavens who exposes mysteries, and makes known to sovereign Nebukadnets Tsar what becomes in the final days. Your dream and the visions of your head on your bed are these: 29 As for you, O sovereign, the intentions that ascended on your bed, What becomes after this? - and he who exposes mysteries makes known to you what becomes. 30 As for me, this mystery is not exposed to me for wisdom that I have in me any more than for any one living, but for words to make the interpretation known to the sovereign, so that you know the intentions of your heart. 31
DANI EL RECALLS THE MYSTERY
You, O sovereign, saw, and behold, one great image - this great image whose excellent cheerfulness rises in front of you: and the appearance terrifies. 32 This head of the image, of fine gold; his breast and his arms, of silver; his inwards and his flanks, of copper; 33 his legs, of iron; his feet, of iron and of clay: 34 you see until a stone is cut - not by hands which strikes the image on his feet of iron and clay and pulverizes them: 35 then the iron, the clay, the copper, the silver and the gold pulverize as one, and become as the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind bears them, and no place is found for them: and the stone that strikes the image becomes a great rock and fills the whole earth. 36
DANI EL INTERPRETS THE MYSTERY
This is the dream and we say the interpretation in front of the sovereign: 37 You, O sovereign, are a sovereign of sovereigns: for Elah of the heavens gives you a sovereigndom - power and empowerment and esteem: 38 and everywhere the sons of men whirl; and he gives the live beings of the field and the flyers of the heavens into your hand, and has you dominate over them all: you are this head of gold. 39 And in your stead rises another sovereigndom of earth and another, a third sovereigndom of copper who dominates over all the earth. 40 And the fourth sovereigndom becomes mighty as iron: because as iron pulverizes and crushes all: and as iron shatters all these, it pulverizes and shatters. 41 And as to what you saw - the feet and digits, of clay of the potters, and of iron, the sovereigndom becomes divided; for the strength of the iron becomes therein just as you saw the iron comingled with miry clay. 42 And the digits of the feet, of iron and of clay, thus the sovereigndom - becomes mighty, and becomes partly broken. 43 And as you saw iron comingled with miry clay, they become comingled with the seed of men: but they become not this with that - behold, as iron is not comingled with clay. 44 And in the days of these sovereigns Elah of the heavens raises a sovereigndom, which despoils not eternally: and the sovereigndom is not left to other people, it pulverizes and consumes all these sovereigndoms and it is raised eternally. 45 Because, as you saw, the stone cut from the rock, not by hands, and it pulverizes the iron, the copper, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great Elah makes known to the sovereign what becomes after this: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation trustworthy. 46
NEBUKADNETS TSAR PROMOTES DANI EL
Then sovereign Nebukadnets Tsar falls on his face, and prostrates to Dani El, and says for them to libate an offering and savour of rest to him. 47 The sovereign answers Dani El, and says, Of a truth, your Elah is an Elah of elahim, and a master of sovereigns, and an exposer of mysteries, that you can expose this mystery. 48 Then the sovereign greatens Dani El and gives him many great gifts; and has him dominate over the whole jurisdiction of Babel and the great of the prefects - over all the magi of Babel. 49 And Dani El requests of the sovereign, and he numbers Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed Nego over the service of the jurisdiction of Babel: and Dani El in the portal of the sovereign.