⁷ All the ^(A)commissioners of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the high officials and the governors have ^(B)counseled together that the king should establish a statute and enforce an injunction that anyone who seeks to make a petition ^[a]to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, shall ^(C)be cast into the lions’ ^[b]den. ⁸ Now, O king, ^(D)establish the injunction and ^[c]sign the written document so that it may not be changed, according to the ^(E)law of the Medes and Persians, which ^[d]may not be revoked.” ⁹ Therefore King Darius ^(F)signed the written document, that is, the injunction.