Daniel 2:3-5

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³ he said to them, ‘I have had such a dream that my spirit is troubled by the desire to understand it.’ ⁴ The Chaldeans said to the king (in Aramaic),^[a] ‘O king, live for ever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will reveal the interpretation.’ ⁵ The king answered the Chaldeans, ‘This is a public decree: if you do not tell me both the dream and its interpretation, you shall be torn limb from limb, and your houses shall be laid in ruins.