Daniel 6:7-9

New International Reader's Version

⁷ All the royal leaders, high officials, royal rulers, advisers and governors want to make a suggestion. We’ve agreed that you should give an order. And you should make sure it’s obeyed. Your Majesty, here is the command you should make your people obey for the next 30 days. Don’t let any of your people pray to any god or human being except to you. If they do, throw them into the lions’ den. ⁸ Now give the order. Write it down in the law of the Medes and Persians. Then it can’t be changed.” ⁹ So King Darius put the order in writing.