28 PERES[a][b] means that your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

29 Then Belshazzar gave an order, and they clothed Daniel in purple, placed a gold chain around his neck,(A) and issued a proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

30 That very night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was killed,

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 5:28 Or half a shekel
  2. Daniel 5:28 In Aram, the word peres is the sg form of “parsin” in v. 25.

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