Daniel 2:2-4

Good News Translation

²so he sent for his fortunetellers, magicians, sorcerers, and wizards to come and explain the dream to him. When they came and stood before the king, ³he said to them, “I'm worried about a dream I've had. I want to know what it means.”

⁴They answered the king in Aramaic,^[a] “May Your Majesty live forever! Tell us your dream, and we will explain it to you.”

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Footnotes

Daniel 2:4 From here to the end of chapter 7, the language used is Aramaic, not Hebrew. The language of the addition from the ancient Greek translation—The Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three Young Men (A.1-68)—between 3.23 and 3.24 is Greek.