8 The sovereign answered and said, “I know for certain that you would gain time, because you see that my decision is firm:
9 “If you do not make known the dream to me, there is only one decree for you! For you have agreed to speak lying and corrupt words before me till the time has changed. So relate the dream to me, then I shall know that you shall reveal its interpretation for me.”
10 The Chaldeans answered the sovereign, and said, “There is no one on earth who is able to reveal the matter of the sovereign. Because no sovereign, master, or ruler has ever asked a matter like this of any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.
11 “And the matter that the sovereign is asking is difficult, and there is no other who is able to reveal it to the sovereign except the elahin, whose dwelling is not with flesh.”
12 Because of this the sovereign was enraged and very wroth, and gave orders to destroy all the wise ones of Baḇel.
13 So the decree went out, and they began killing the wise ones. And they sought Dani’ĕl and his companions, to kill them.
14 Then with counsel and wisdom Dani’ĕl answered Aryoḵ, the chief of the sovereign’s guard, who had gone out to kill the wise ones of Baḇel –