Daniel 6:7-9

New Catholic Bible

⁷ As a result, these administrators and satraps conspired together, and then they came in a group to the king, saying, “May King Darius live forever! ⁸ All of us, the ministers of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, are unanimous in our belief that the king should issue an edict and enforce a decree that whoever presents a petition to anyone, whether divine or human, during the next thirty days, other than to you, O king, shall be thrown into a den of lions. ⁹ We ask that Your Majesty ratify this edict immediately and sign the document, thereby making it unalterable, for the law of the Medes and the Persians cannot be revoked.”