1 In the third year of Koresh sovereign of Persia a word was revealed to Dani’ĕl, whose name was called Bĕlteshatstsar. And the word was true, and the conflict great. And he understood the word, and had understanding of the vision.
2 In those days I, Dani’ĕl, was mourning three weeks of days.
3 I did not eat desirable food, and meat and wine did not come into my mouth, and I did not anoint myself at all, till the completion of three weeks of days.
4 And on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, while I was by the side of the great river, that is Ḥiddeqel,