Daniel 6:7-9

Expanded Bible

⁷ The ·supervisors [presidents; heads], ·assistant governors [prefects], ·governors [^Lsatraps], ·the people who advise you [counselors], and the ·captains of the soldiers [governors] have ·all agreed [taken counsel] that you should ·make a new law [issue a decree] ·for everyone to obey [and enforce an edict]: For the next thirty days no one should pray to any god or human except to you, O king. Anyone who doesn’t obey will be thrown into the lions’ den. ⁸ Now, O king, ·make the law [enforce the edict] and sign ·your name to it [^Lthe document] so that it cannot be changed, because then it will be a law of the Medes and Persians and cannot be canceled.” ⁹ So King Darius signed the ·law [^Ldocument and edict].