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Whoever does not bow down and pay homage will immediately[a] be thrown into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire!” Therefore when they all[b] heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, trigon, harp, pipes,[c] and all kinds of music, all the peoples, nations, and language groups began bowing down and paying homage to the golden statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had erected.

Now[d] at that time certain[e] Chaldeans came forward and brought malicious accusations against[f] the Jews.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 3:6 tn Aram “in that hour.”
  2. Daniel 3:7 tn Aram “all the peoples.”
  3. Daniel 3:7 tc Though not in the Aramaic text of BHS, this word appears in many medieval Hebrew mss, some LXX mss, and the Vulgate (cf. vv. 5, 10, 15).
  4. Daniel 3:8 tc This expression is absent in Theodotion.
  5. Daniel 3:8 tn Aram “men.”
  6. Daniel 3:8 tn Aram “ate the pieces of.” This is a rather vivid idiom for slander.