^41:1And he took me to the Temple, and took the measure of the uprights, six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the other. ^41:2And the door-opening was ten cubits wide; and the side walls of the door-opening were five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and it was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. ^41:3And he went inside and took the measure of the uprights of the door-opening, two cubits: and the door-opening, six cubits; and the side-walls of the door-opening were seven cubits on one side and seven cubits on the other. ^41:4And by his measure it was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide in front of the Temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place. ^41:5Then he took the measure of the wall of the house, which was six cubits; and of the side-rooms round the house, which were four cubits wide. ^41:6And the side-rooms, room over room, were three times thirty; there were inlets in the wall of the house for the side-rooms round about, for supports in the wall of the house. ^41:7The side-rooms became wider as they went higher up the house, by the amount of the space let into the wall up round about the house, because of the inlets in the house; and one went up from the lowest floor by steps to the middle, and from the middle to the upper floor. ^41:8And I saw that the house had a stone floor all round; the bases of the side-rooms were a full rod of six great cubits high. ^41:9The wall supporting the side-rooms on the outside was five cubits thick: and there was a free space of five cubits between the side-rooms of the house. ^41:10And between the rooms was a space twenty cubits wide all round the house. ^41:11And the free space had doors opening from the side-rooms, one door on the north and one door on the south: and the free space was five cubits wide all round. ^41:12And the building which was in front of the separate place at the side to the west was seventy cubits wide; the wall of the building was five cubits thick all round and ninety cubits long. ^41:13And he took the measure of the house; it was a hundred cubits long; and the separate place and the building with its walls was a hundred cubits long; ^41:14And the east front of the house and of the separate place was a hundred cubits wide. ^41:15And he took the measure of the building in front of the separate place which was at the back of it, and the pillared walks on one side and on the other side; they were a hundred cubits long; and the Temple and the inner part and its outer covered way were covered in; ^41:16And the sloping windows and the covered ways round all three of them were of shakiph-wood all round from the level of the earth up to the windows; ^41:17And there was a roof over the doorway and as far as the inner house, and to the outside and on the wall all round, inside and outside. ^41:18And it had pictured forms of winged beings and palm-trees; a palm-tree between two winged ones, and every winged one had two faces; ^41:19So that there was the face of a man turned to the palm-tree on one side, and the face of a young lion on the other side: so it was made all round the house. ^41:20From earth level up to the windows there were winged ones and palm-trees pictured on the wall. ^41:21... ^41:22The altar was made of wood, and was three cubits high and two cubits long; it had angles, and its base and sides were of wood; and he said to me, This is the table which is before the Lord. ^41:23The Temple had two doors. ^41:24And the holy place had two doors, and the doors had two turning leaves, two for one and two for the other. ^41:25And on them were pictured winged ones and palm-trees, as on the walls; and a ... of wood was on the front of the covered way outside. ^41:26And there were sloping windows and palm-trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the covered way: and the side-rooms of the house and the ...

^42:1And he took me out into the inner square in the direction of the north: and he took me into the rooms which were opposite the separate place and opposite the building to the north. ^42:2On the north side it was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide, ^42:3Opposite the space of twenty cubits which was part of the inner square, and opposite the stone floor of the outer square. There were covered ways facing one another on the third floor. ^42:4And in front of the rooms was a walk, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long; and their doors were facing north. ^42:5And the higher rooms were shorter: for the covered ways took up more space from these than from the lower and middle rooms. ^42:6For they were on three floors, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer square; so the highest was narrower than the lowest and middle floors from the earth level. ^42:7And the wall which went outside by the side of the rooms, in the direction of the outer square in front of the rooms, was fifty cubits long. ^42:8For the rooms in the outer square were fifty cubits long: and in front of the Temple was a space of a hundred cubits. ^42:9And under these rooms was the way in from the east side, as one goes into them from the outer square at the head of the outer wall. ^42:10(And he took me) to the south, and in front of the separate place and in front of the building there were rooms. ^42:11And there was a walk in front of them like that by the rooms on the north; they were equally long and wide; and the ways out of them were the same in design and had the same sort of doors. ^42:12And under the rooms on the south was a door at the head of the outer wall in the direction of the east as one goes in. ^42:13And he said to me, The north rooms and the south rooms in front of the separate place are the holy rooms, where the priests who come near the Lord take the most holy things for their food: there the most holy things are placed, with the meal offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error; for the place is holy. ^42:14When the priests go in, they may not go out of the holy place into the outer square, and there they are to put the robes in which they do the work of the Lord's house, for they are holy: and they have to put on other clothing before they come near that which has to do with the people. ^42:15And when he had come to the end of measuring the inner house, he took me out to the doorway looking to the east, and took its measure all round. ^42:16He went round and took the measure of it on the east side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round. ^42:17And he went round and took the measure of it on the north side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round. ^42:18And he went round and took the measure of it on the south side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round. ^42:19And he went round and took the measure of it on the west side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round. ^42:20He took its measure on the four sides: and it had a wall all round, five hundred long and five hundred wide, separating what was holy from what was common.

^43:1And he took me to the doorway looking to the east: ^43:2And there was the glory of the God of Israel coming from the way of the east: and his voice was like the sound of great waters, and the earth was shining with his glory. ^43:3And the vision which I saw was like the vision I had seen when he came for the destruction of the town: and like the vision which I saw by the river Chebar; and I went down on my face. ^43:4And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the doorway looking to the east. ^43:5And the spirit, lifting me up, took me into the inner square; and I saw that the house was full of the glory of the Lord. ^43:6And the voice of one talking to me came to my ears from inside the house; and the man was by my side. ^43:7And he said to me, Son of man, this is the place where the seat of my power is and the resting-place of my feet, where I will be among the children of Israel for ever: and no longer will the people of Israel make my holy name unclean, they or their kings, by their loose ways and by the dead bodies of their kings; ^43:8By putting their doorstep by my doorstep, and the pillar of their door by the pillar of my door, with only a wall between me and them; and they have made my holy name unclean by the disgusting things which they have done: so in my wrath I sent destruction on them. ^43:9Now let them put their loose ways and the dead bodies of their kings far from me, and I will be among them for ever. ^43:10You, son of man, give the children of Israel an account of this house, so that they may be shamed because of their evil-doing: and let them see the vision of it and its image. ^43:11And they will be shamed by what they have done; so give them the knowledge of the form of the house and its structure, and the ways out of it and into it, and all its laws and its rules, writing it down for them: so that they may keep all its laws and do them. ^43:12This is the law of the house: On the top of the mountain all the space round it on every side will be most holy. See, this is the law of the house. ^43:13And these are the measures of the altar in cubits: (the cubit being a cubit and a hand's measure;) its hollow base is a cubit high and a cubit wide, and it has an overhanging edge as wide as a hand-stretch all round it: ^43:14And from the base on the earth level to the lower shelf, the altar is two cubits high and a cubit wide; and from the smaller shelf to the greater shelf it is four cubits high and a cubit wide. ^43:15And the fireplace is four cubits high: and coming up from the fireplace are the horns, a cubit high. ^43:16And the fireplace is twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide, square on its four sides. ^43:17And the shelf is fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, on its four sides; the edge round it is half a cubit; the base of it is a cubit all round, and its steps are facing the east. ^43:18And he said to me, Son of man, the Lord God has said, These are the rules for the altar, when they make it, for the offering of burned offerings on it and the draining out of the blood. ^43:19You are to give to the priests, the Levites of the seed of Zadok, who come near to me, says the Lord God, to do my work, a young ox for a sin-offering. ^43:20You are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns and on the four angles of the shelf and on the edge all round: and you are to make it clean and free from sin. ^43:21And you are to take the ox of the sin-offering, and have it burned in the special place ordered for it in the house, outside the holy place. ^43:22And on the second day you are to have a he-goat without any mark on it offered for a sin-offering; and they are to make the altar clean as they did with the young ox. ^43:23And after you have made it clean, let a young ox without a mark be offered, and a male sheep from the flock without a mark. ^43:24And you are to take them before the Lord, and the priests will put salt on them, offering them up for a burned offering to the Lord. ^43:25Every day for seven days you are to give a goat for a sin-offering: and let them give in addition a young ox and a male sheep from the flock without any mark on them. ^43:26For seven days they are to make offerings to take away sin from the altar and to make it clean; so they are to make it holy. ^43:27And when these days have come to an end, then on the eighth day and after, the priests will make your burned offerings on the altar and your peace-offerings; and I will take pleasure in you, says the Lord.

^44:1And he took me back to the outer doorway of the holy place, looking to the east; and it was shut. ^44:2And the Lord said to me, This doorway is to be shut, it is not to be open, and no man is to go in by it, because the Lord, the God of Israel, has gone in by it; and it is to be shut. ^44:3But the ruler will be seated there to take his food before the Lord; he will go in by the covered way to the door, and will come out by the same way. ^44:4And he took me to the north doorway in front of the house; and, looking, I saw that the house of the Lord was full of the glory of the Lord; and I went down on my face. ^44:5And the Lord said to me, Son of man, take to heart, and let your eyes see and your ears be open to everything I say to you about all the rules of the house of the Lord and all its laws; and take note of the ways into the house and all the ways out of the holy place. ^44:6And say to the uncontrolled children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: O you children of Israel, let it be enough for you, among the disgusting things which you have done, ^44:7To have let men from strange lands, without circumcision of heart or flesh, come into my holy place, making my house unclean; and to have made the offering of my food, even the fat and the blood; and in addition to all your disgusting ways, you have let my agreement be broken. ^44:8And you have not taken care of my holy things; but you have put them as keepers to take care of my work in my holy place. ^44:9For this cause the Lord has said, No man from a strange land, without circumcision of heart and flesh, of all those who are living among the children of Israel, is to come into my holy place. ^44:10But as for the Levites, who went far from me, when Israel went out of the right way, turning away from me to go after their images; their punishment will come on them. ^44:11But they may be caretakers in my holy place, and overseers at the doors of the house, doing the work of the house: they will put to death the burned offering and the beasts offered for the people, and they will take their place before them as their servants. ^44:12Because they did this work for them before their images, and became a cause of sin to the children of Israel; for this cause my hand has been lifted up against them, says the Lord, and their punishment will be on them. ^44:13And they will not come near me to do the work of priests to me, or come near any of my holy things, or the things which are most holy: but their shame will be on them, and the punishment for the disgusting things which they have done. ^44:14But I will make them responsible for the care of the house and all its work and everything which is done in it. ^44:15But as for the priests, the sons of Zadok, who took care of my holy place when the children of Israel were turned away from me, they are to come near me to do my work, they will take their places before me, offering to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord; ^44:16They are to come into my holy place and they are to come near to my table, to do my work and have the care of my house. ^44:17And when they come in by the doorways of the inner square, they are to be clothed in linen robes; there is to be no wool on them while they are doing my work in the doorway of the inner square and inside the house. ^44:18They are to have linen head-dresses on their heads and linen trousers on their legs, and they are to have nothing round them to make their skin wet with heat. ^44:19And when they go out into the outer square to the people, they are to take off the robes in which they do the work of priests, and put them away in the holy rooms, and put on other clothing, so that the people may not be made holy by their robes. ^44:20They are not to have all the hair cut off their heads, and they are not to let their hair get long, but they are to have the ends of their hair cut. ^44:21The priests are not to take wine when they go into the inner square. ^44:22And they are not to take as wives any widow or woman whose husband has put her away: but they may take virgins of the seed of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest. ^44:23And they are to make clear to my people the division between what is holy and what is common, and to give them the knowledge of what is clean and what is unclean. ^44:24In any cause, they are to be in the position of judges, judging in harmony with my decisions: they are to keep my laws and my rules in all my fixed feasts; and they are to keep my Sabbaths holy. ^44:25They are not to come near any dead person so as to become unclean: but for a father or mother or son or daughter or brother or for a sister who has no husband, they may make themselves unclean. ^44:26And after he has been made clean, seven days are to be numbered for him. ^44:27And on the day when he goes into the inner square, to do the work of the holy place, he is to make his sin-offering, says the Lord. ^44:28And they are to have no heritage; I am their heritage: you are to give them no property in Israel; I am their property. ^44:29Their food is to be the meal offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error; and everything given specially to the Lord in Israel will be theirs. ^44:30And the best of all the first-fruits of everything, and every offering which is lifted up of all your offerings, will be for the priests: and you are to give the priest the first of your bread-making, so causing a blessing to come on your house. ^44:31The priests may not take for food any bird or beast which has come to a natural death or whose death has been caused by another animal.

^45:1And when you are making a distribution of the land, by the decision of the Lord, for your heritage, you are to make an offering to the Lord of a part of the land as holy: it is to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty thousand wide: all the land inside these limits is to be holy. ^45:2Of this, a square five hundred long and five hundred wide is to be for the holy place, with a space of fifty cubits all round it. ^45:3And of this measure, let a space be measured, twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide: in it there will be the holy place, even the most holy. ^45:4This holy part of the land is to be for the priests, the servants of the holy place, who come near to the Lord to do his work; it is to be a place for their houses and for grass-land and for cattle. ^45:5A space of land twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide is to be for the Levites, the servants of the house, a property for themselves, for towns for their living-places. ^45:6And as the property for the town you are to have a part five thousand wide and twenty-five thousand long, by the side of the offering of the holy part of the land: this is to be for all the children of Israel. ^45:7And for the ruler there is to be a part on one side and on the other side of the holy offering and of the property of the town, in front of the holy offering and in front of the property of the town on the west of it and on the east: measured in the same line as one of the parts of the land, from its limit on the west to its limit on the east of the land. ^45:8And this will be his heritage in Israel: and my rulers will no longer be cruel masters to my people; but they will give the land as a heritage to the children of Israel by their tribes. ^45:9This is what the Lord has said: Let this be enough for you, O rulers of Israel: let there be an end of violent behaviour and wasting; do what is right, judging uprightly; let there be no more driving out of my people, says the Lord. ^45:10Have true scales and a true ephah and a true bath. ^45:11The ephah and the bath are to be of the same measure, so that the bath is equal to a tenth of a homer, and the ephah to a tenth of a homer: the unit of measure is to be a homer. ^45:12And the shekel is to be twenty gerahs: five shekels are five, and ten shekels are ten, and your maneh is to be fifty shekels ^45:13This is the offering you are to give: a sixth of an ephah out of a homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah out of a homer of barley; ^45:14And the fixed measure of oil is to be a tenth of a bath from the cor, for ten baths make up the cor; ^45:15And one lamb from the flock out of every two hundred, from all the families of Israel, for a meal offering and for a burned offering and for peace-offerings, to take away their sin, says the Lord. ^45:16All the people are to give this offering to the ruler. ^45:17And the ruler will be responsible for the burned offering and the meal offering and the drink offering, at the feasts and the new moons and the Sabbaths, at all the fixed feasts of the children of Israel: he will give the sin-offering and meal offering and burned offering and the peace-offerings, to take away the sin of the children of Israel. ^45:18This is what the Lord has said: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you are to take a young ox without any mark on him, and you are to make the holy place clean. ^45:19And the priest is to take some of the blood of the sin-offering and put it on the uprights at the sides of the doors of the house, and on the four angles of the shelf of the altar, and on the sides of the doorway of the inner square. ^45:20And this you are to do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who is in error and for the feeble-minded: you are to make the house free from sin. ^45:21In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you are to have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread is to be your food. ^45:22And on that day the ruler is to give for himself and for all the people of the land an ox for a sin-offering. ^45:23And on the seven days of the feast he is to give a burned offering to the Lord, seven oxen and seven sheep without any mark on them, every day for seven days; and a he-goat every day for a sin-offering. ^45:24And he is to give a meal offering, an ephah for every ox and an ephah for every sheep and a hin of oil to every ephah. ^45:25In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he is to give the same for seven days; the sin-offering, the burned offering, the meal offering, and the oil as before.

^46:1This is what the Lord has said: The doorway of the inner square looking to the east is to be shut on the six working days; but on the Sabbath it is to be open, and at the time of the new moon it is to be open. ^46:2And the ruler is to go in through the covered way of the outer doorway outside, and take his place by the pillar of the doorway, and the priests will make his burned offering and his peace-offerings and he will give worship at the doorstep of the doorway; then he will go out, and the door will not be shut till the evening. ^46:3And the people of the land are to give worship at the door of that doorway before the Lord on the Sabbaths and at the new moons. ^46:4And the burned offering offered to the Lord by the ruler on the Sabbath day is to be six lambs without a mark on them and a male sheep without a mark; ^46:5And the meal offering is to be an ephah for the sheep, and for the lambs whatever he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. ^46:6And at the time of the new moon it is to be a young ox of the herd without a mark on him, and six lambs and a male sheep, all without a mark: ^46:7And he is to give a meal offering, an ephah for the ox and an ephah for the sheep, and for the lambs whatever he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. ^46:8And when the ruler comes in, he is to go in through the covered way of the doorway, and he is to go out by the same way. ^46:9But when the people of the land come before the Lord at the fixed feasts, he who comes in by the north doorway to give worship is to go out by the south doorway; and he who comes in by the south doorway is to go out by the north doorway: he is not to come back by the doorway through which he went in, but is to go straight before him. ^46:10And the ruler, when they come in, is to come among them, and is to go out when they go out. ^46:11At the feasts and the fixed meetings the meal offerings are to be an ephah for an ox, and an ephah for a male sheep, and for the lambs whatever he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. ^46:12And when the ruler makes a free offering, a burned offering or a peace-offering freely given to the Lord, the doorway looking to the east is to be made open for him, and he is to make his burned offering and his peace-offerings as he does on the Sabbath day: and he will go out; and the door will be shut after he has gone out. ^46:13And you are to give a lamb a year old without any mark on it for a burned offering to the Lord every day: morning by morning you are to give it. ^46:14And you are to give, morning by morning, a meal offering with it, a sixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of oil dropped on the best meal; a meal offering offered to the Lord at all times by an eternal order. ^46:15And they are to give the lamb and the meal offering and the oil, morning by morning, for a burned offering at all times. ^46:16This is what the Lord has said: If the ruler gives a property to any of his sons, it is his heritage and will be the property of his sons; it is theirs for their heritage. ^46:17And if he gives a part of his heritage to one of his servants, it will be his till the year of making free, and then it will go back to the ruler; for it is his sons' heritage, and is to be theirs. ^46:18And the ruler is not to take the heritage of any of the people, driving them out of their property; he is to give a heritage to his sons out of the property which is his: so that my people may not be sent away from their property. ^46:19And he took me through by the way in at the side of the doorway into the holy rooms which are the priests', looking to the north: and I saw a place at the side of them to the west. ^46:20And he said to me, This is the place where the offering for error and the sin-offering are to be cooked in water by the priests, and where the meal offering is to be cooked in the oven; so that they may not be taken out into the outer square to make the people holy. ^46:21And he took me out into the outer square and made me go by the four angles of the square; and I saw that in every angle of the open square there was a space shut in. ^46:22In the four angles there were spaces walled in, forty cubits long and thirty wide; the four were of the same size. ^46:23And there was a line of wall all round inside them, round all four, and boiling-places were made under it all round about. ^46:24And he said to me, These are the boiling-rooms, where the offering of the people is cooked by the servants of the house.

^47:1And he took me back to the door of the house; and I saw that waters were flowing out from under the doorstep of the house on the east, for the house was facing east: and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south side of the altar. ^47:2And he took me out by the north doorway, and made me go round to the outside of the doorway looking to the east; and I saw waters running slowly out on the south side. ^47:3And the man went out to the east with the line in his hand, and after measuring a thousand cubits, he made me go through the waters, which came over my feet. ^47:4And again, measuring a thousand cubits, he made me go through the waters which came up to my knees. Again, measuring a thousand, he made me go through the waters up to the middle of my body. ^47:5Again, after his measuring a thousand, it became a river which it was not possible to go through: for the waters had become deep enough for swimming, a river it was not possible to go through. ^47:6And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen this? Then he took me to the river's edge. ^47:7And he took me back, and I saw at the edge of the river a very great number of trees on this side and on that. ^47:8And he said to me, These waters are flowing out to the east part of the land and down into the Arabah; and they will go to the sea, and the waters will be made sweet. ^47:9And it will come about that every living and moving thing, wherever their streams come, will have life; and there will be very much fish because these waters have come there and have been made sweet: and everything wherever the river comes will have life. ^47:10And fishermen will take up their places by it: from En-gedi as far as En-eglaim will be a place for the stretching out of nets; the fish will be of every sort, like the fish of the Great Sea, a very great number. ^47:11The wet places and the pools will not be made sweet; they will be given up to salt. ^47:12And by the edge of the river, on this side and on that, will come up every tree used for food, whose leaves will ever be green and its fruit will not come to an end: it will have new fruit every month, because its waters come out from the holy place: the fruit will be for food and the leaf will make well those who are ill. ^47:13This is what the Lord has said: These are the limits by which you will take up your heritage in the land among the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph is to have two parts. ^47:14And you are to make an equal division of it; as I gave my oath to your fathers to give it to you: for this land is to be your heritage. ^47:15And this is to be the limit of the land: on the north side, from the Great Sea, in the direction of Hethlon, as far as the way into Hamath; ^47:16To Zedad, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the limit of Damascus and the limit of Hazar-hatticon, which is on the limit of Hauran. ^47:17And this is the limit from the sea in the direction of Hazar-enon; and the limit of Damascus is to the north, and on the north is the limit of Hamath. This is the north side. ^47:18And the east side will be from Hazar-enon, which is between Hauran and Damascus; and between Gilead and the land of Israel the Jordan will be the limit, to the east sea, to Tamar. This is the east side. ^47:19And the south side to the south will be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the stream of Egypt, to the Great Sea. This is the south side, on the south. ^47:20And the west side will be the Great Sea, from the limit on the south to a point opposite the way into Hamath. This is the west side. ^47:21You will make a division of the land among you, tribe by tribe. ^47:22And you are to make a distribution of it, by the decision of the Lord, for a heritage to you and to the men from other lands who are living among you and who have children in your land: they will be the same to you as if they were Israelites by birth, they will have their heritage with you among the tribes of Israel. ^47:23In whatever tribe the man from a strange land is living, there you are to give him his heritage, says the Lord.

^48:1Now these are the names of the tribes: from the north end, from the west on the way of Hethlon to the way into Hamath, in the direction of Hazar-enon, with the limit of Damascus to the north, by Hamath; and on the limit from the east side to the west side: Dan, one part. ^48:2And on the limit of Dan, from the east side to the west side: Asher, one part. ^48:3And on the limit of Asher, from the east side to the west side: Naphtali, one part. ^48:4And on the limit of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side: Manasseh, one part. ^48:5And on the limit of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side: Ephraim, one part. ^48:6And on the limit of Ephraim, from the east side to the west side: Reuben, one part. ^48:7And on the limit of Reuben, from the east side to the west side: Judah, one part. ^48:8And on the limit of Judah, from the east side to the west side, will be the offering which you are to make, twenty-five thousand wide, and as long as one of the parts, from the east side to the west side: and the holy place will be in the middle of it. ^48:9The offering you will give to the Lord is to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty-five thousand wide. ^48:10And for these, that is the priests, the holy offering is to be twenty-five thousand long to the north, ten thousand wide to the west, ten thousand wide to the east and twenty-five thousand long to the south; and the holy place of the Lord will be in the middle of it. ^48:11For the priests who have been made holy, those of the sons of Zadok who kept the orders I gave them, who did not go out of the right way when the children of Israel went from the way, as the Levites did, ^48:12Even for them will be the offering from the offering of the land, a thing most holy, on the limit of the land given to the Levites. ^48:13And the Levites are to have a part of the land equal to the limit of the priests', twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide, all of it together to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty thousand wide. ^48:14And they are not to let any of it go for a price, or give it in exchange; and the part of the land given to the Lord is not to go into other hands: for it is holy to the Lord. ^48:15And the other five thousand, measured from side to side, in front of the twenty-five thousand, is to be for common use, for the town, for living in and for a free space: and the town will be in the middle of it. ^48:16And these will be its measures: the north side, four thousand five hundred, and the south side, four thousand five hundred, and on the east side, four thousand five hundred, and on the west side, four thousand five hundred. ^48:17And the town will have a free space on the north of two hundred and fifty, on the south of two hundred and fifty, on the east of two hundred and fifty, and on the west of two hundred and fifty. ^48:18And the rest, in measure as long as the holy offering, will be ten thousand to the east and ten thousand to the west: and its produce will be for food for the workers of the town. ^48:19It will be farmed by workers of the town from all the tribes of Israel. ^48:20The size of the offering all together is to be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand: you are to make the holy offering a square, together with the property of the town. ^48:21And the rest is to be for the prince, on this side and on that side of the holy offering and of the property of the town, in front of the twenty-five thousand to the east, as far as the east limit, and to the west, in front of the twenty-five thousand, as far as the west limit, and of the same measure as those parts; it will be the property of the prince: and the holy offering and holy place of the house will be in the middle of it. ^48:22And the property of the Levites and the property of the town will be in the middle of the prince's property; between the limit of Judah's part and the limit of Benjamin's part will be for the prince. ^48:23And as for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side: Benjamin, one part. ^48:24And on the limit of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side: Simeon, one part. ^48:25And on the limit of Simeon, from the east side to the west side: Issachar, one part. ^48:26And on the limit of Issachar, from the east side to the west side: Zebulun, one part. ^48:27And on the limit of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side: Gad one part. ^48:28And on the limit of Gad, on the south side and to the south of it, the limit will be from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the stream, to the Great Sea. ^48:29This is the land of which distribution is to be made by the decision of the Lord, among the tribes of Israel for their heritage, and these are their heritages, says the Lord. ^48:30And these are the outskirts of the town: on the north side, four thousand five hundred by measure; ^48:31And the doors of the town are to be named by the names of the tribes of Israel; three doors on the north, one for Reuben, one for Judah, one for Levi; ^48:32And at the east side, four thousand five hundred by measure, and three doors, one for Joseph, one for Benjamin, one for Dan; ^48:33And at the south side, four thousand five hundred by measure, and three doors, one for Simeon, one for Issachar, one for Zebulun; ^48:34At the west side, four thousand five hundred by measure, with their three doors, one for Gad, one for Asher, one for Naphtali. ^48:35It is to be eighteen thousand all round: and the name of the town from that day will be, The Lord is there.

Daniel

^1:1In the third year of the rule of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem, shutting it in with his forces. ^1:2And the Lord gave into his hands Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he took them away into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he put the vessels into the store-house of his god. ^1:3And the king gave orders to Ashpenaz, the captain of his unsexed servants, to take in some of the children of Israel, certain of the king's family, and those of high birth; ^1:4Young men who were strong and healthy, good-looking, and trained in all wisdom, having a good education and much knowledge, and able to take positions in the king's house; and to have them trained in the writing and language of the Chaldaeans. ^1:5And a regular amount of food and wine every day from the king's table was ordered for them by the king; and they were to be cared for for three years so that at the end of that time they might take their places before the king. ^1:6And among these there were, of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. ^1:7And the captain of the unsexed servants gave them names; to Daniel he gave the name of Belteshazzar, to Hananiah the name of Shadrach, to Mishael the name of Meshach, and to Azariah the name of Abed-nego. ^1:8And Daniel had come to the decision that he would not make himself unclean with the king's food or wine; so he made a request to the captain of the unsexed servants that he might not make himself unclean. ^1:9And God put into the heart of the captain of the unsexed servants kind feelings and pity for Daniel. ^1:10And the captain of the unsexed servants said to Daniel, I am in fear of my lord the king, who has given orders about your food and your drink; what if he sees you looking less happy than the other young men of your generation? then you would have put my head in danger from the king. ^1:11Then Daniel said to the keeper in whose care the captain of the unsexed servants had put Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: ^1:12Put your servants to the test for ten days; let them give us grain for our food and water for our drink. ^1:13Then take a look at our faces and the faces of the young men who have food from the king's table; and, having seen them, do to your servants as it seems right to you. ^1:14So he gave ear to them in this thing and put them to the test for ten days. ^1:15And at the end of ten days their faces seemed fairer and they were fatter in flesh than all the young men who had their food from the king's table. ^1:16So the keeper regularly took away their meat and the wine which was to have been their drink, and gave them grain. ^1:17Now as for these four young men, God gave them knowledge and made them expert in all book-learning and wisdom: and Daniel was wise in all visions and dreams. ^1:18Now at the end of the time fixed by the king for them to go in, the captain of the unsexed servants took them in to Nebuchadnezzar. ^1:19And the king had talk with them; and among them all there was no one like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; so they were given places before the king. ^1:20And in any business needing wisdom and good sense, about which the king put questions to them, he saw that they were ten times better than all the wonder-workers and users of secret arts in all his kingdom. ^1:21And Daniel went on till the first year of King Cyrus.

^2:1In the second year of the rule of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was troubled and his sleep went from him. ^2:2Then the king gave orders that the wonder-workers, and the users of secret arts, and those who made use of evil powers, and the Chaldaeans, were to be sent for to make clear to the king his dreams. So they came and took their places before the king. ^2:3And the king said to them, I have had a dream, and my spirit is troubled by the desire to have the dream made clear to me. ^2:4Then the Chaldaeans said to the king in the Aramaean language, O King, have life for ever: give your servants an account of your dream, and we will make clear to you the sense of it. ^2:5The king made answer and said to the Chaldaeans, This is my decision: if you do not make clear to me the dream and the sense of it, you will be cut in bits and your houses made waste. ^2:6But if you make clear the dream and the sense of it, you will have from me offerings and rewards and great honour: so make clear to me the dream and the sense of it. ^2:7A second time they said in answer, Let the king give his servants an account of his dream, and we will make clear the sense. ^2:8The king made answer and said, I am certain that you are attempting to get more time, because you see that my decision is fixed; ^2:9That if you do not make my dream clear to me there is only one fate for you: for you have made ready false and evil words to say before me till the times are changed: so give me an account of the dream, and I will be certain that you are able to make the sense of it clear. ^2:10Then the Chaldaeans said to the king in answer, There is not a man on earth able to make clear the king's business; for no king, however great his power, has ever made such a request to any wonder-worker or user of secret arts or Chaldaean. ^2:11The king's request is a very hard one, and there is no other who is able to make it clear to the king, but the gods, whose living-place is not with flesh. ^2:12Because of this the king was angry and full of wrath, and gave orders for the destruction of all the wise men of Babylon. ^2:13So the order went out that the wise men were to be put to death; and they were looking for Daniel and his friends to put them to death. ^2:14Then Daniel gave an answer with wisdom and good sense to Arioch, the captain of the king's armed men, who had gone out to put to death the wise men of Babylon; ^2:15He made answer and said to Arioch, O captain of the king, why is the king's order so cruel? Then Arioch gave Daniel an account of the business. ^2:16And Daniel went in and made a request to the king to give him time and he would make clear the sense of his dream to the king. ^2:17And Daniel went to his house and gave his friends Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah the news: ^2:18So that they might make a request for the mercy of the God of heaven in the question of this secret; so that Daniel and his friends might not come to destruction with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. ^2:19Then the secret was made clear to Daniel in a vision of the night. And Daniel gave blessing to the God of heaven. ^2:20And Daniel said in answer, May the name of God be praised for ever and ever: for wisdom and strength are his: ^2:21By him times and years are changed: by him kings are taken away and kings are lifted up: he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those whose minds are awake: ^2:22He is the unveiler of deep and secret things: he has knowledge of what is in the dark, and the light has its living-place with him. ^2:23I give you praise and worship, O God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and strength, and have now made clear to me what we were requesting from you: for you have given us knowledge of the king's business. ^2:24For this reason Daniel went to Arioch, to whom the king had given orders for the destruction of the wise men of Babylon, and said to him, Do not put to death the wise men of Babylon: take me in before the king and I will make clear to him the sense of the dream. ^2:25Then Arioch quickly took Daniel in before the king, and said to him, Here is a man from among the prisoners of Judah, who will make clear to the king the sense of the dream. ^2:26The king made answer and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Are you able to make clear to me the dream which I saw and its sense? ^2:27Then Daniel said in answer to the king, No wise men, or users of secret arts, or wonder-workers, or readers of signs, are able to make clear to the king the secret he is searching for; ^2:28But there is a God in heaven, the unveiler of secrets, and he has given to King Nebuchadnezzar knowledge of what will take place in the last days. Your dreams and the visions of your head on your bed are these: ^2:29As for you, O King, the thoughts which came to you on your bed were of what will come about after this: and the unveiler of secrets has made clear to you what is to come. ^2:30As for me, this secret is not made clear to me because of any wisdom which I have more than any living man, but in order that the sense of the dream may be made clear to the king, and that you may have knowledge of the thoughts of your heart. ^2:31You, O King, were looking, and a great image was there. This image, which was very great, and whose glory was very bright, was placed before you: its form sent fear into the heart. ^2:32As for this image, its head was made of the best gold, its breast and its arms were of silver, its middle and its sides were of brass, ^2:33Its legs of iron, its feet were in part of iron and in part of potter's earth. ^2:34While you were looking at it, a stone was cut out, but not by hands, and it gave the image a blow on its feet, which were of iron and earth, and they were broken in bits. ^2:35Then the iron and the earth, the brass and the silver and the gold, were smashed together, and became like the dust on the floors where grain is crushed in summer; and the wind took them away so that no sign of them was to be seen: and the stone which gave the image a blow became a great mountain, covering all the earth. ^2:36This is the dream; and we will make clear to the king the sense of it. ^2:37You, O King, king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory, ^2:38Wherever the children of men are living; into whose hands he has given the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven, and has made you ruler over them all, you are the head of gold. ^2:39And after you another kingdom, lower than you, will come to power; and a third kingdom, of brass, ruling over all the earth. ^2:40And the fourth kingdom will be strong as iron: because, as all things are broken and overcome by iron, so it will have the power of crushing and smashing down all the earth. ^2:41And as you saw the feet and toes, part of potter's work and part of iron, there will be a division in the kingdom; but there will be some of the strength of iron in it, because you saw the iron mixed with the potter's earth. ^2:42And as the toes of the feet were in part of iron and in part of earth, so part of the kingdom will be strong and part of it will readily be broken. ^2:43And as you saw the iron mixed with earth, they will give their daughters to one another as wives: but they will not be united one with another, even as iron is not mixed with earth. ^2:44And in the days of those kings, the God of heaven will put up a kingdom which will never come to destruction, and its power will never be given into the hands of another people, and all these kingdoms will be broken and overcome by it, but it will keep its place for ever. ^2:45Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that by it the iron and the brass and the earth and the silver and the gold were broken to bits, a great God has given the king knowledge of what is to take place in the future: the dream is fixed, and its sense is certain. ^2:46Then King Nebuchadnezzar, falling down on his face, gave worship to Daniel, and gave orders for an offering and spices to be given to him; ^2:47And the king made answer to Daniel and said, Truly, your God is a God of gods and a Lord of kings, and an unveiler of secrets, for you have been able to make this secret clear. ^2:48Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him offerings in great number, and made him ruler over all the land of Babylon, and chief over all the wise men of Babylon. ^2:49And at Daniel's request, the king gave Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego authority over the business of the land of Babylon: but Daniel was kept near the king's person.

^3:1Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, sixty cubits high and six cubits wide: he put it up in the valley of Dura, in the land of Babylon. ^3:2And Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to get together all the captains, the chiefs, the rulers, the wise men, the keepers of public money, the judges, the overseers, and all the rulers of the divisions of the country, to come to see the unveiling of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had put up. ^3:3Then the captains, the chiefs, the rulers, the wise men, the keepers of public money, the judges, the overseers, and all the rulers of the divisions of the country, came together to see the unveiling of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had put up; and they took their places before the image which Nebuchadnezzar had put up. ^3:4Then one of the king's criers said in a loud voice, To you the order is given, O peoples, nations, and languages, ^3:5That when the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all sorts of instruments, comes to your ears, you are to go down on your faces in worship before the image of gold which Nebuchadnezzar the king has put up: ^3:6And anyone not falling down and worshipping will that same hour be put into a burning and flaming fire. ^3:7So at that time, all the people, when the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, and all sorts of instruments, came to their ears, went down on their faces in worship before the image of gold which Nebuchadnezzar the king had put up. ^3:8At that time certain Chaldaeans came near and made a statement against the Jews. ^3:9They made answer and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king, O King, have life for ever. ^3:10You, O King, have given an order that every man, when the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all sorts of instruments, comes to his ears, is to go down on his face in worship before the image of gold: ^3:11And anyone not falling down and worshipping is to be put into a burning and flaming fire. ^3:12There are certain Jews whom you have put over the business of the land of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego; these men have not given attention to you, O King: they are not servants of your gods or worshippers of the gold image which you have put up. ^3:13Then Nebuchadnezzar in his wrath and passion gave orders for Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego to be sent for. Then they made these men come in before the king. ^3:14Nebuchadnezzar made answer and said to them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, that you will not be servants of my god or give worship to the image of gold which I have put up? ^3:15Now if you are ready, on hearing the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all sorts of instruments, to go down on your faces in worship before the image which I have made, it is well: but if you will not give worship, that same hour you will be put into a burning and flaming fire; and what god is there who will be able to take you out of my hands? ^3:16Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answering Nebuchadnezzar the king, said, There is no need for us to give you an answer to this question. ^3:17If our God, whose servants we are, is able to keep us safe from the burning and flaming fire, and from your hands, O King, he will keep us safe. ^3:18But if not, be certain, O King, that we will not be the servants of your gods, or give worship to the image of gold which you have put up. ^3:19Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of wrath, and the form of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: and he gave orders that the fire was to be heated up seven times more than it was generally heated. ^3:20And he gave orders to certain strong men in his army to put cords on Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego and put them into the burning and flaming fire. ^3:21Then these men had cords put round them as they were, in their coats, their trousers, their hats, and their clothing, and were dropped into the burning and flaming fire. ^3:22And because the king's order was not to be put on one side, and the heat of the fire was so great, the men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego were burned to death by the flame of the fire. ^3:23And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, with the cords about them, went down into the burning and flaming fire. ^3:24Then King Nebuchadnezzar, full of fear and wonder, got up quickly, and said to his wise men, Did we not put three men in cords into the fire? and they made answer and said to the king, True, O King. ^3:25He made answer and said, Look! I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are not damaged; and the form of the fourth is like a son of the gods. ^3:26Then Nebuchadnezzar came near the door of the burning and flaming fire: he made answer and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, you servants of the Most High God, come out and come here. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego came out of the fire. ^3:27And the captains, the chiefs, and the rulers, and the king's wise men who had come together, saw these men, over whose bodies the fire had no power, and not a hair of their heads was burned, and their coats were not changed, and there was no smell of fire about them. ^3:28Nebuchadnezzar made answer and said, Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who has sent his angel and kept his servants safe who had faith in him, and who put the king's word on one side and gave up their bodies to the fire, so that they might not be servants or worshippers of any other god but their God. ^3:29And it is my decision that any people, nation, or language saying evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, will be cut to bits and their houses made waste: because there is no other god who is able to give salvation such as this. ^3:30Then the king gave Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego even greater authority in the land of Babylon.

^4:1Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all the peoples, nations, and languages living in all the earth: May your peace be increased. ^4:2It has seemed good to me to make clear the signs and wonders which the Most High God has done with me. ^4:3How great are his signs! and how full of power are his wonders! his kingdom is an eternal kingdom and his rule goes on from generation to generation. ^4:4I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my place, and all things were going well for me in my great house: ^4:5I saw a dream which was a cause of great fear to me; I was troubled by the images of my mind on my bed, and by the visions of my head. ^4:6And I gave orders for all the wise men of Babylon to come in before me so that they might make clear to me the sense of my dream. ^4:7Then the wonder-workers, the users of secret arts, the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs came in to me: and I put the dream before them but they did not make clear the sense of it to me. ^4:8But at last Daniel came in before me, he whose name was Belteshazzar, after the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods: and I put the dream before him, saying, ^4:9O Belteshazzar, master of the wonder-workers, because I am certain that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and you are troubled by no secret; this is the dream which I saw: make clear to me its sense. ^4:10On my bed I saw a vision: there was a tree in the middle of the earth, and it was very high. ^4:11And the tree became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven, and to be seen from the ends of the earth: ^4:12Its leaves were fair and it had much fruit, and in it was food enough for all: the beasts of the field had shade under it, and the birds of heaven were resting in its branches, and it gave food to all living things. ^4:13In the visions of my head on my bed I saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven, ^4:14Crying out with a loud voice; and this is what he said: Let the tree be cut down and its branches broken off; let its leaves be taken off and its fruit sent in every direction: let the beasts get away from under it and the birds from its branches: ^4:15But keep its broken end and its roots still in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass; let him have the young grass of the field for food, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his part be with the beasts. ^4:16Let his heart be changed from that of a man, and the heart of a beast be given to him; and let seven times go by him. ^4:17This order is fixed by the watchers, and the decision is by the word of the holy ones: so that the living may be certain that the Most High is ruler over the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure, lifting up over it the lowest of men. ^4:18This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, saw; and do you, O Belteshazzar, make clear the sense of it, for all the wise men of my kingdom are unable to make the sense of it clear to me; but you are able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in you. ^4:19Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was at a loss for a time, his thoughts troubling him. The king made answer and said, Belteshazzar, do not be troubled by the dream or by the sense of it. Belteshazzar, answering, said, My lord, may the dream be about your haters, and its sense about those who are against you. ^4:20The tree which you saw, which became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven and seen from the ends of the earth; ^4:21Which had fair leaves and much fruit, and had in it food for all; under which the beasts of the field were living, and in the branches of which the birds of heaven had their resting-places: ^4:22It is you, O King, who have become great and strong: for your power is increased and stretching up to heaven, and your rule to the end of the earth. ^4:23And as for the vision which the king saw of a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven, saying, Let the tree be cut down and given to destruction; ^4:24This is the sense of it, O King, and it is the decision of the Most High which has come on my lord the king: ^4:25That they will send you out from among men, to be with the beasts of the field; they will give you grass for your food like the oxen, and you will be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven times will go by you, till you are certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure. ^4:26And as they gave orders to let the broken end and the roots of the tree be, so your kingdom will be safe for you after it is clear to you that the heavens are ruling. ^4:27For this cause, O King, let my suggestion be pleasing to you, and let your sins be covered by righteousness and your evil-doing by mercy to the poor, so that the time of your well-being may be longer. ^4:28All this came to King Nebuchadnezzar. ^4:29At the end of twelve months he was walking on the roof of his great house in Babylon. ^4:30The king made answer and said, Is this not great Babylon, which I have made for the living-place of kings, by the strength of my power and for the glory of my honour? ^4:31While the word was still in the king's mouth, a voice came down from heaven, saying, O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is said: The kingdom has gone from you: ^4:32And they will send you out from among men, to be with the beasts of the field; they will give you grass for your food like the oxen, and seven times will go by you, till you are certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure. ^4:33That very hour the order about Nebuchadnezzar was put into effect: and he was sent out from among men, and had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair became long as eagles' feathers and his nails like those of birds. ^4:34And at the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifting up my eyes to heaven, got back my reason, and, blessing the Most High, I gave praise and honour to him who is living for ever, whose rule is an eternal rule and whose kingdom goes on from generation to generation. ^4:35And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing? ^4:36At the same time my reason came back to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my honour and my great name came back to me; and my wise men and my lords were turned to me again; and I was made safe in my kingdom and had more power than before. ^4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give worship and praise and honour to the King of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are right: and those who go in pride he is able to make low.

^5:1Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, drinking wine before the thousand. ^5:2Belshazzar, while he was overcome with wine, gave orders for them to put before him the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem; so that the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, might take their drink from them. ^5:3Then they took in the gold and silver vessels which had been in the Temple of the house of God at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, took wine from them. ^5:4They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone. ^5:5In that very hour the fingers of a man's hand were seen, writing opposite the support for the light on the white wall of the king's house, and the king saw the part of the hand which was writing. ^5:6Then the colour went from the king's face, and he was troubled by his thoughts; strength went from his body, and his knees were shaking. ^5:7The king, crying out with a loud voice, said that the users of secret arts, the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs, were to be sent for. The king made answer and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever is able to make out this writing, and make clear to me the sense of it, will be clothed in purple and have a chain of gold round his neck, and will be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom. ^5:8Then all the king's wise men came in: but they were not able to make out the writing or give the sense of it to the king. ^5:9Then King Belshazzar was greatly troubled and the colour went from his face, and his lords were at a loss. ^5:10The queen, because of the words of the king and his lords, came into the house of the feast: the queen made answer and said, O King, have life for ever; do not be troubled by your thoughts or let the colour go from your face: ^5:11There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father, light and reason like the wisdom of the gods were seen in him: and King Nebuchadnezzar, your father, made him master of the wonder-workers, and the users of secret arts, and the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs; ^5:12Because a most special spirit, and knowledge and reason and the power of reading dreams and unfolding dark sayings and answering hard questions, were seen to be in him, even in Daniel (named Belteshazzar by the king): now let Daniel be sent for, and he will make clear the sense of the writing. ^5:13Then they took Daniel in before the king; the king made answer and said to Daniel, So you are that Daniel, of the prisoners of Judah, whom my father took out of Judah. ^5:14And I have had news of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and reason and special wisdom have been seen in you. ^5:15And now the wise men, the users of secret arts, have been sent in before me for the purpose of reading this writing and making clear to me the sense of it: but they are not able to make clear the sense of the thing: ^5:16And I have had news of you, that you have the power of making things clear, and of answering hard questions: now if you are able to make out the writing and give me the sense of it, you will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain round your neck and be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom. ^5:17Then Daniel made answer and said to the king, Keep your offerings for yourself, and give your rewards to another; but I, after reading the writing to the king, will give him the sense of it. ^5:18As for you, O King, the Most High God gave to Nebuchadnezzar, your father, the kingdom and great power and glory and honour: ^5:19And because of the great power he gave him, all peoples and nations and languages were shaking in fear before him: some he put to death and others he kept living, at his pleasure, lifting up some and putting others down as it pleased him. ^5:20But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became hard with pride, he was put down from his place as king, and they took his glory from him: ^5:21And he was sent out from among the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts', and he was living with the asses of the fields; he had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he was certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives power over it to anyone at his pleasure. ^5:22And you, his son, O Belshazzar, have not kept your heart free from pride, though you had knowledge of all this; ^5:23But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory; ^5:24Then the part of the hand was sent out from before him, and this writing was recorded. ^5:25And this is the writing which was recorded, Mene, tekel, peres. ^5:26This is the sense of the words: Mene; your kingdom has been numbered by God and ended. ^5:27Tekel; you have been put in the scales and seen to be under weight. ^5:28Peres; your kingdom has been cut up and given to the Medes and Persians. ^5:29Then, by the order of Belshazzar, they put a purple robe on Daniel, and a gold chain round his neck, and a public statement was made that he was to be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom. ^5:30That very night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, was put to death. ^5:31And Darius the Mede took the kingdom, being then about sixty-two years old.

^6:1Darius was pleased to put over the kingdom a hundred and twenty captains, who were to be all through the kingdom; ^6:2And over them were three chief rulers, of whom Daniel was one; and the captains were to be responsible to the chief rulers, so that the king might undergo no loss. ^6:3Then this Daniel did his work better than the chief rulers and the captains, because there was a special spirit in him; and it was the king's purpose to put him over all the kingdom. ^6:4Then the chief rulers and the captains were looking for some cause for putting Daniel in the wrong in connection with the kingdom, but they were unable to put forward any wrongdoing or error against him; because he was true, and no error or wrong was to be seen in him. ^6:5Then these men said, We will only get a reason for attacking Daniel in connection with the law of his God. ^6:6Then these chief rulers and the captains came to the king and said to him, O King Darius, have life for ever. ^6:7All the chief rulers of the kingdom, the chiefs and the captains, the wise men and the rulers, have made a common decision to put in force a law having the king's authority, and to give a strong order, that whoever makes any request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole. ^6:8Now, O King, put the order in force, signing the writing so that it may not be changed, like the law of the Medes and Persians which may not come to an end. ^6:9For this reason King Darius put his name on the writing and the order. ^6:10And Daniel, on hearing that the writing had been signed, went into his house; (now he had windows in his room on the roof opening in the direction of Jerusalem;) and three times a day he went down on his knees in prayer and praise before his God, as he had done before. ^6:11Then these men were watching and saw Daniel making prayers and requesting grace before his God. ^6:12Then they came near before the king and said, O King, have you not put your name to an order that any man who makes a request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole? The king made answer and said, The thing is fixed by the law of the Medes and Persians which may not come to an end. ^6:13Then they made answer and said before the king, Daniel, one of the prisoners of Judah, has no respect for you, O King, or for the order signed by you, but three times a day he makes his prayer to God. ^6:14When this thing came to the king's ears, it was very evil to him, and his heart was fixed on keeping Daniel safe, and till the going down of the sun he was doing everything in his power to get him free. ^6:15Then these men said to the king, Be certain, O King, that by the law of the Medes and Persians no order or law which the king has put into force may be changed. ^6:16Then the king gave the order, and they took Daniel and put him into the lions' hole. The king made answer and said to Daniel, Your God, whose servant you are at all times, will keep you safe. ^6:17Then they got a stone and put it over the mouth of the hole, and it was stamped with the king's stamp and with the stamp of the lords, so that the decision about Daniel might not be changed. ^6:18Then the king went to his great house, and took no food that night, and no ... were placed before him, and his sleep went from him. ^6:19Then very early in the morning the king got up and went quickly to the lions' hole. ^6:20And when he came near the hole where Daniel was, he gave a loud cry of grief; the king made answer and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whose servant you are at all times, able to keep you safe from the lions? ^6:21Then Daniel said to the king, O King, have life for ever. ^6:22My God has sent his angel to keep the lions' mouths shut, and they have done me no damage: because I was seen to be without sin before him; and further, before you, O King, I have done no wrong. ^6:23Then the king was very glad, and gave orders for them to take Daniel up out of the hole. So Daniel was taken up out of the hole and he was seen to be untouched, because he had faith in his God. ^6:24And at the king's order, they took those men who had said evil against Daniel, and put them in the lions' hole, with their wives and their children; and they had not got to the floor of the hole before the lions overcame them and all their bones were broken. ^6:25Then King Darius sent a letter to all the peoples, nations, and languages, living in all the earth: May your peace be increased. ^6:26It is my order that in all the kingdom of which I am ruler, men are to be shaking with fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, unchanging for ever, and his kingdom is one which will never come to destruction, his rule will go on to the end. ^6:27He gives salvation and makes men free from danger, and does signs and wonders in heaven and earth, who has kept Daniel safe from the power of the lions. ^6:28So this Daniel did well in the kingdom of Darius and in the kingdom of Cyrus the Persian.

^7:1In the first year of Belshazzar, king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream, and visions came into his head on his bed: then he put the dream in writing. ^7:2I had a vision by night, and saw the four winds of heaven violently moving the great sea. ^7:3And four great beasts came up from the sea, different one from another. ^7:4The first was like a lion and had eagle's wings; while I was watching its wings were pulled off, and it was lifted up from the earth and placed on two feet like a man, and a man's heart was given to it. ^7:5And I saw another beast, like a bear, and it was lifted up on one side, and three side-bones were in its mouth, between its teeth: and they said to it, Up! take much flesh. ^7:6After this I saw another beast, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings like those of a bird; and the beast had four heads, and the power of a ruler was given to it. ^7:7After this, in my vision of the night, I saw a fourth beast, a thing causing fear and very troubling, full of power and very strong; and it had great iron teeth: it took its food, crushing some of it to bits and stamping down the rest with its feet: it was different from all the beasts before it; and it had ten horns. ^7:8I was watching the horns with care, and I saw another coming up among them, a little one, before which three of the first horns were pulled up by the roots: and there were eyes like a man's eyes in this horn, and a mouth saying great things. ^7:9I went on looking till the seats of kings were placed, and one like a very old man took his seat: his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head was like clean wool; his seat was flames of fire and its wheels burning fire. ^7:10A stream of fire was flowing and coming out from before him: a thousand thousands were his servants, and ten thousand times ten thousand were in their places before him: the judge was seated and the books were open. ^7:11Then I saw--because of the voice of the great words which the horn said--I saw till the beast was put to death, and its body was given to destruction, and the beast was given to the burning of fire. ^7:12As for the rest of the beasts, their authority was taken away: but they let them go on living for a measure of time. ^7:13I saw in visions of the night, and there was coming with the clouds of heaven one like a man, and he came to the one who was very old, and they took him near before him. ^7:14And to him was given authority and glory and a kingdom; and all peoples, nations, and languages were his servants: his authority is an eternal authority which will not come to an end, and his kingdom is one which will not come to destruction. ^7:15As for me, Daniel, my spirit was pained because of this, and the visions of my head were troubling me. ^7:16I came near to one of those who were waiting there, questioning him about what all this was. And he said to me that he would make clear to me the sense of these things. ^7:17These great beasts are four kings who will be cut off from the earth. ^7:18But the saints of the Most High will take the kingdom, and it will be theirs for ever, even for ever and ever. ^7:19Then it was my desire to have certain knowledge about the fourth beast, which was different from all the others, a cause of great fear, whose teeth were of iron and his nails of brass; who took his food, crushing some of it to bits and stamping on the rest with his feet; ^7:20And about the ten horns on his head and the other which came up, causing the fall of three; that horn which had eyes, and a mouth saying great things, which seemed to be greater than the other horns. ^7:21And I saw how that horn made war on the saints and overcame them, ^7:22Till he came, who was very old, and the decision was made and the authority was given to the saints of the Most High; and the time came when the saints took the kingdom. ^7:23This is what he said: The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom which will come on earth, different from all the kingdoms, and it will overcome all the earth, crushing it down and smashing it. ^7:24And as for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings will come to power; and after them another will come up: he will be different from the first ones and will put down three kings. ^7:25And he will say words against the Most High, attempting to put an end to the saints of the Most High; and he will have the idea of changing times and law; and the saints will be given into his hands for a time and times and half a time. ^7:26But the judge will be seated, and they will put an end to his authority, to overcome it and send complete destruction on it. ^7:27And the kingdom and the authority and the power of the kingdoms under all the heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High: his kingdom is an eternal kingdom, and all powers will be his servants and do his pleasure. ^7:28Here is the end of the account. As for me, Daniel, I was greatly troubled by my thoughts, and the colour went from my face: but I kept the thing in my heart.

^8:1In the third year of the rule of Belshazzar the king, a vision was seen by me, Daniel, after the one I saw at first. ^8:2And I saw in the vision; and when I saw it, I was in the strong town Shushan, which is in the country of Elam; and in the vision I was by the water-door of the Ulai. ^8:3And lifting up my eyes, I saw, there before the stream, a male sheep with two horns: and the two horns were high, but one was higher than the other, the higher one coming up last. ^8:4I saw the sheep pushing to the west and to the north and to the south; and no beasts were able to keep their place before him, and no one was able to get people out of his power; but he did whatever his pleasure was and made himself great. ^8:5And while I was giving thought to this, I saw a he-goat coming from the west over the face of all the earth without touching the earth: and the he-goat had a great horn between his eyes. ^8:6And he came to the two-horned sheep which I saw before the stream, rushing at him in the heat of his power. ^8:7And I saw him come right up to the sheep, and he was moved with wrath against him, attacking the sheep so that his two horns were broken; and the sheep had not strength to keep his place before him, but was pushed down on the earth and crushed under his feet: and there was no one to get the sheep out of his power. ^8:8And the he-goat became very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken, and in its place came up four other horns turned to the four winds of heaven. ^8:9And out of one of them came another horn, a little one, which became very great, stretching to the south and to the east and to the beautiful land. ^8:10And it became great, even as high as the army of heaven, pulling down some of the army, even of the stars, to the earth and crushing them under its feet. ^8:11It made itself great, even as great as the lord of the army; and by it the regular burned offering was taken away, and the place overturned and the holy place made waste. ^8:12... against the regular burned offering; and ... crushed down to the earth, and it did its pleasure and things went well for it. ^8:13Then there came to my ears the voice of a holy one talking; and another holy one said to that certain one who was talking, How long will the vision be while the regular burned offering is taken away, and the unclean thing causing fear is put up, and the holy place crushed under foot? ^8:14And he said to him, For two thousand, three hundred evenings and mornings; then the holy place will be made clean. ^8:15And it came about that when I, Daniel, had seen this vision, I had a desire for the sense of it to be unfolded; and I saw one before me in the form of a man. ^8:16And the voice of a man came to my ears between the sides of the Ulai, crying out and saying, Gabriel, make the vision clear to this man. ^8:17So he came and took his place near where I was; and when he came, I was full of fear and went down on my face: but he said to me, Let it be clear to you, O son of man; for the vision has to do with the time of the end. ^8:18Now while he was talking to me, I went into a deep sleep with my face to the earth: but touching me, he put me on my feet where I had been. ^8:19And he said, See, I will make clear to you what is to come in the later time of the wrath: for it has to do with the fixed time of the end. ^8:20The sheep which you saw with two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia. ^8:21And the he-goat is the king of Greece: and the great horn between his eyes is the first king. ^8:22And as for that which was broken, in place of which four came up, four kingdoms will come up from his nation, but not with his power. ^8:23And in the later years of their kingdom, when their evil doings have become complete, there will come up a king full of pride and expert in dark sayings. ^8:24And his power will be great, and he will be purposing strange things. And all will go well for him and he will do his pleasure; and he will send destruction on the strong ones. ^8:25And his designs will be turned against the holy people, causing deceit to do well in his hand; in his heart he will make himself great, and send destruction on numbers who are living unconscious of their danger; and he will put himself up against the prince of princes; but he will be broken, though not by men's hands. ^8:26And the vision of evenings and mornings which has been talked of is true: and keep the vision secret; for it has to do with the far-off future. ^8:27And I, Daniel, was ill for some days; then I got up and did the king's business: and I was full of wonder at the vision, but no one was able to give the sense of it.

^9:1In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldaeans; ^9:2In the first year of his rule, I, Daniel, saw clearly from the books the number of years given by the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah, in which the making waste of Jerusalem was to be complete, that is, seventy years. ^9:3And turning my face to the Lord God, I gave myself up to prayer, requesting his grace, going without food, in haircloth and dust. ^9:4And I made prayer to the Lord my God, putting our sins before him, and said, O Lord, the great God, greatly to be feared. keeping your agreement and mercy with those who have love for you and do your orders; ^9:5We are sinners, acting wrongly and doing evil; we have gone against you, turning away from your orders and from your laws: ^9:6We have not given ear to your servants the prophets, who said words in your name to our kings and our rulers and our fathers and all the people of the land. ^9:7O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you. ^9:8O Lord, shame is on us, on our kings and our rulers and our fathers, because of our sin against you. ^9:9With the Lord our God are mercies and forgiveness, for we have gone against him; ^9:10And have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God to go in the way of his laws which he put before us by the mouth of his servants the prophets. ^9:11And all Israel have been sinners against your law, turning away so as not to give ear to your voice: and the curse has been let loose on us, and the oath recorded in the law of Moses, the servant of God, for we have done evil against him. ^9:12And he has given effect to his words which he said against us and against those who were our judges, by sending a great evil on us: for under all heaven there has not been done what has been done to Jerusalem. ^9:13As it was recorded in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us: but we have made no prayer for grace from the Lord our God that we might be turned from our evil doings and come to true wisdom. ^9:14So the Lord has been watching over this evil and has made it come on us: for the Lord our God is upright in all his acts which he has done, and we have not given ear to his voice. ^9:15And now, O Lord our God, who took your people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand and made a great name for yourself even to this day; we are sinners, we have done evil. ^9:16O Lord, because of your righteousness, let your wrath and your passion be turned away from your town Jerusalem, your holy mountain: because, through our sins and the evil-doing of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a cause of shame to all who are round about us. ^9:17And now, give ear, O our God, to the prayer of your servant and to his request for grace, and let your face be shining on your holy place which is made waste, because of your servants, O Lord. ^9:18O my God, let your ear be turned and give hearing; let your eyes be open and see how we have been made waste and the town which is named by your name: for we are not offering our prayers before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercies. ^9:19O Lord, give ear; O Lord, have forgiveness; O Lord, take note and do; let there be no more waiting; for the honour of your name, O my God, because your town and your people are named by your name. ^9:20And while I was still saying these words in prayer, and putting my sins and the sins of my people Israel before the Lord, and requesting grace from the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God; ^9:21Even while I was still in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at first when my weariness was great, put his hand on me about the time of the evening offering. ^9:22And teaching me and talking to me he said, O Daniel, I have come now to give you wisdom. ^9:23At the first word of your prayer a word went out, and I have come to give you knowledge; for you are a man dearly loved: so give thought to the word and let the vision be clear to you. ^9:24Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place. ^9:25Have then the certain knowledge that from the going out of the word for the building again of Jerusalem till the coming of a prince, on whom the holy oil has been put, will be seven weeks: in sixty-two weeks its building will be complete, with square and earthwork. ^9:26And at the end of the times, even after the sixty-two weeks, one on whom the holy oil has been put will be cut off and have no ...; and the town and the holy place will be made waste together with a prince; and the end will come with an overflowing of waters, and even to the end there will be war; the making waste which has been fixed. ^9:27And a strong order will be sent out against the great number for one week; and so for half of the week the offering and the meal offering will come to an end; and in its place will be an unclean thing causing fear; till the destruction which has been fixed is let loose on him who has made waste.

^10:1In the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia, a secret was unfolded to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a hard work: and he had knowledge of it, and the vision was clear to him. ^10:2In those days I, Daniel, gave myself up to grief for three full weeks. ^10:3I had no pleasing food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, and I put no oil on my body till three full weeks were ended. ^10:4And on the twenty-fourth day of the first month I was by the side of the great river; ^10:5And lifting up my eyes I saw the form of a man clothed in a linen robe, and round him there was a band of gold, of the best gold: ^10:6And his body was like the beryl, and his face had the look of a thunder-flame, and his eyes were like burning lights, and his arms and feet like the colour of polished brass, and the sound of his voice was like the sound of an army. ^10:7And I, Daniel, was the only one who saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see it; but a great shaking came on them and they went in flight to take cover. ^10:8So I was by myself, and I saw this great vision, and all my strength went from me; and the colour went from my face. ^10:9But the sound of his words came to my ears, and on hearing his voice I went into a deep sleep with my face to the earth. ^10:10Then a hand gave me a touch, awaking me, and putting me on my knees and my hands. ^10:11And he said to me, O Daniel, you man dearly loved, take in the sense of the words I say to you and get up on to your feet: for to you I am now sent; and when he had said this to me I got on to my feet, shaking with fear. ^10:12Then he said to me, Have no fear, Daniel; for from the first day when you gave your heart to getting wisdom and making yourself poor in spirit before your God, your words have come to his ears: and I have come because of your words. ^10:13But the angel of the kingdom of Persia put himself against me for twenty-one days; but Michael, one of the chief angels, came to my help; and when I came he was still there with the angel of the kings of Persia. ^10:14Now I have come to give you knowledge of the fate of your people in the later days; for there is still a vision for the days. ^10:15And after he had said these words to me, I kept my face turned to the earth and was unable to say anything. ^10:16Then one whose form was like the sons of men put his finger on my lips; and opening my mouth, I said to him who was before me, O my lord, because of the vision my pains have come on me, and I have no more strength. ^10:17For how may this servant of my lord have talk with my lord? for, as for me, straight away my strength went from me and there was no breath in my body. ^10:18Then again one having the form of a man put his hand on me and gave me strength. ^10:19And he said to me, O man greatly loved, have no fear: peace be with you, be strong and let your heart be lifted up. And at his words I became strong, and said, Let my lord say on, for you have given me strength. ^10:20Then he said, It is clear to you why I have come to you. And now I will give you an account of what is recorded in the true writings: ^10:21But I am going back to make war with the angel of Persia, and when I am gone, the angel of Greece will come. And there is no one on my side against these, but Michael, your angel.

^11:1And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede I was on his side to make his position safe and make him strong. ^11:2And now I will make clear to you what is true. There are still three kings to come in Persia, and the fourth will have much greater wealth than all of them: and when he has become strong through his wealth, he will put his forces in motion against all the kingdoms of Greece. ^11:3And a strong king will come to power, ruling with great authority and doing whatever is his pleasure. ^11:4And when he has become strong, his kingdom will be broken and parted to the four winds of heaven; but not to his offspring, for it will be uprooted; and his kingdom will be for the others and not for these: but not with the same authority as his. ^11:5And the king of the south will be strong, but one of his captains will be stronger than he and will be ruler; and his rule will be a great rule. ^11:6And at the end of years they will be joined together; and the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she will not keep the strength of her arm; and his offspring will not keep their place; but she will be uprooted, with those who were the cause of her coming, and her son, and he who took her in those times. ^11:7But out of a branch from her roots one will come up to take his place, who will come against the army, forcing his way into the strong place of the king of the north, and he will take them in hand and overcome them: ^11:8And their gods and their metal images and their fair vessels of silver and gold he will take away into the south; and for some years he will keep away from the king of the north. ^11:9And he will come into the kingdom of the king of the south, but he will go back to his land. ^11:10And his son will make war, and will get together an army of great forces, and he will make an attack on him, overflowing and going past: and he will again take the war even to his strong place. ^11:11And the king of the south will be moved with wrath, and will come out and make war on him, on this same king of the north: and he will get together a great army, but the army will be given into his hand. ^11:12And the army will be taken away, and his heart will be uplifted: he will be the cause of the downfall of tens of thousands, but he will not be strong. ^11:13And again the king of the north will get together an army greater than the first; and he will make an attack on him at the end of years, with a great army and much wealth. ^11:14In those times, a number will take up arms against the king of the south: and the children of the violent among your people will be lifting themselves up to make the vision come true; but it will be their downfall. ^11:15So the king of the north will come, and put up earthworks and take a well-armed town: and the forces of the king of the south will make an attempt to keep their position, even the best of his army, but they will not have strength to do so. ^11:16And he who comes against him will do his pleasure, and no one will be able to keep his place before him: he will take up his position in the beautiful land and in his hand there will be destruction. ^11:17And it will be his purpose to come with the strength of all his kingdom, but in place of this he will make an agreement with him; and he will give him the daughter of women to send destruction on it; but this will not take place or come about. ^11:18After this, his face will be turned to the islands, and he will take a number of them: but a chief, by his destruction, will put an end to the shame offered by him; and more than this, he will make his shame come back on him. ^11:19Then his face will be turned to the strong places of his land: but his way will be stopped, causing his downfall, and he will not be seen again. ^11:20Then his place will be taken by one who will send out a man with the glory of a king to get wealth together; but after a short time destruction will overtake him, but not in wrath or in the fight. ^11:21And his place will be taken by a low person, to whom the honour of the kingdom had not been given: but he will come in time of peace and will get the kingdom by fair words. ^11:22And his forces will be completely taken away from before him and broken; and even the ruler of the agreement will have the same fate. ^11:23And from the time when they make an agreement with him, he will be working falsely: for he will take up arms suddenly with a small force, ^11:24Against fertile places, and will make waste a part of the country; and he will do what his fathers have not done, or his fathers' fathers; he will make distribution among them of goods taken in war and by force, and of property: he will even make designs against the strong places for a time. ^11:25And he will put in motion his power and his strength against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south will go to war with a very great and strong army: but he will be forced to give way, because of their designs against him; ^11:26And his fears will overcome him and be the cause of his downfall, and his army will come to complete destruction, and a great number will be put to the sword. ^11:27And as for these two kings, their hearts will be fixed on doing evil and they will say false words at one table; but it will come to nothing: for the end will be at the time fixed. ^11:28And he will go back to his land with great wealth; and his heart will be against the holy agreement; and he will do his pleasure and go back to his land. ^11:29At the time fixed he will come back and come into the south; but in the later time it will not be as it was before. ^11:30For those who go out from the west will come against him, and he will be in fear and will go back, full of wrath against the holy agreement; and he will do his pleasure: and he will go back and be united with those who have given up the holy agreement. ^11:31And armies sent by him will take up their position and they will make unclean the holy place, even the strong place, and take away the regular burned offering and put in its place an unclean thing causing fear. ^11:32And those who do evil against the agreement will be turned to sin by his fair words: but the people who have knowledge of their God will be strong and do well. ^11:33And those who are wise among the people will be the teachers of the mass of the people: but they will come to their downfall by the sword and by the flame, being made prisoners and undergoing loss for a long time. ^11:34Now at the time of their downfall they will have a little help, but numbers will be joined to them in the town, and in their separate heritages. ^11:35And some of those who are wise will have wisdom in testing themselves and making themselves clean, till the time of the end: for it is still for the fixed time. ^11:36And the king will do his pleasure; he will put himself on high, lifting himself over every god, and saying things to be wondered at against the God of gods; and all will be well for him till the wrath is complete; for what has been purposed will be done. ^11:37He will have no respect for the gods of his fathers or for the god desired by women; he will have no respect for any god: for he will put himself on high over all. ^11:38But in place of this he will give honour to the god of armed places, and to a god of whom his fathers had no knowledge he will give honour with gold and silver and jewels and things to be desired. ^11:39And he will make use of the people of a strange god to keep his strongest places; to those whom he takes note of he will give high honour: and he will make them rulers over the mass of the people, and will make division of the land for a price. ^11:40And at the time of the end, the king of the south will make an attack on him: and the king of the north will come against him like a storm-wind, with war-carriages and horsemen and numbers of ships; and he will go through many lands like overflowing waters. ^11:41And he will come into the beautiful land, and tens of thousands will be overcome: but these will be kept from falling into his hands: Edom and Moab and the chief of the children of Ammon. ^11:42And his hand will be stretched out on the countries: and the land of the south will not be safe from him. ^11:43But he will have power over the stores of gold and silver, and over all the valued things of the south: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians will be at his steps. ^11:44But he will be troubled by news from the east and from the north; and he will go out in great wrath, to send destruction on, and put an end to, great numbers. ^11:45He will put the tents of his great house between the sea and the beautiful holy mountain: but he will come to his end with no helper.