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They said to each other, “We are not going to find anything of which to accuse Daniel unless it is something in connection with his religion.”

So they went to see the king and said, “King Darius, may Your Majesty live forever! All of us who administer your empire—the supervisors, the governors, the lieutenant governors, and the other officials—have agreed that Your Majesty should issue an order and enforce it strictly. Give orders that for thirty days no one be permitted to request anything from any god or from any human being except from Your Majesty. Anyone who violates this order is to be thrown into a pit filled with lions.

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Finally these men said, “We will never find any basis for charges against this man Daniel unless it has something to do with the law of his God.”(A)

So these administrators and satraps went as a group to the king and said: “May King Darius live forever!(B) The royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers and governors(C) have all agreed that the king should issue an edict and enforce the decree that anyone who prays to any god or human being during the next thirty days, except to you, Your Majesty, shall be thrown into the lions’ den.(D)

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