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They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone.[a]

Immediately[b] human fingers[c] appeared and they wrote opposite[d] the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the palace of the king, and the king was watching[e] the palm of the hand that was writing. Then his face changed and his thoughts terrified him, and his hip joints gave way[f] and his knees knocked together.[g]

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 5:4 All these metals have the definite article that does not have to be translated into English to retain the meaning
  2. Daniel 5:5 Literally “In its the hour”
  3. Daniel 5:5 Literally “fingers of the hand of a man”
  4. Daniel 5:5 Literally “to over against”
  5. Daniel 5:5 Or “gazing at”
  6. Daniel 5:6 Literally “the limbs of his hip became loose”
  7. Daniel 5:6 Literally “his knees this to this they knocked together”