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Daniel’s Vision of the Ram and the Goat

In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar,[a] a vision appeared to me—I, Daniel—after the one that appeared to me previously.

I saw the vision, and as I watched, I was in the citadel[b] of Susa, which is in the province of Elam. I saw in the vision that I was beside the Ulai Canal. I looked up and right there in front of me I saw a ram standing beside the canal. He had two horns. The two horns were large. One, however, was larger than the other, but the larger one had grown up later.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 8:1 About 551 bc, after Daniel had been in exile more than 50 years
  2. Daniel 8:2 The term citadel or fortress-city identifies a city as one of the capital cities of the Persian Empire. Persia and Elam are located in present-day Iran.