Verse 26
Daniel 5:26
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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And this is the interpretation of the word. MANE: God (Elohim) hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it.
Original Language Text
hebrew
דְּנָ֖ה פְּשַֽׁר מִלְּתָ֑/א מְנֵ֕א מְנָֽה אֱלָהָ֥/א מַלְכוּתָ֖/ךְ וְ/הַשְׁלְמַֽ/הּ
English Translation
Number, number, weighed, weighed; your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.
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Chapter 5 Context
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Baltasar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his nobles: and every one drank according to...
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And being now drunk he commanded that they should bring the vessels of gold and silver which Nabucho...
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Then were the golden and silver vessels brought, which he had brought away out of the temple that wa...
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They drank wine, and praised their gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, and of wood, and...
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In the same hour there appeared fingers, as it were of the hand of a man, writing over against the c...
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Then was the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him: and the joints of his loins...
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And the king cried out aloud to bring in the wise men, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the k...
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Then came in all the king's wise men, but they could neither read the writing, nor declare the inter...
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Wherewith king Baltasar was much troubled, and his countenance was changed: and his nobles also were...
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Then the queen, on occasion of what had happened to the king, and his nobles, came into the banquet...
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There is a man in thy kingdom that hath the spirit of the holy gods in him: and in the days of thy f...
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Because a greater spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, and interpretation of dreams, and shewin...
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Then Daniel was brought in before the king. And the king spoke, and said to him: Art thou Daniel of...
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I have heard of thee, that thou hast the spirit of the gods, and excellent knowledge, and understand...
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And now the wise men the magicians have come in before me, to read this writing, and shew me the int...
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But I have heard of thee, that thou canst interpret obscure things, and resolve difficult things: no...
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To which Daniel made answer, and said before the king: Thy rewards be to thyself, and the gifts of t...
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O king, the most high God (Elohim) gave to Nabuchodonosor thy father a kingdom, and greatness, and g...
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And for the greatness that he gave to him, all people, tribes, and languages trembled, and were afra...
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But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit hardened unto pride, he was put down from the thron...
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And he was driven out from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling...
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Thou also his son, O Baltasar, hast not humbled thy heart, whereas thou knewest all these things:
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But hast lifted thyself up against the Lord of heaven: and the vessels of his house have been brough...
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Wherefore he hath sent the part of the hand which hath written this that is set down.
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And this is the writing that is written: MANE, THECEL, PHARES.
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And this is the interpretation of the word. MANE: God (Elohim) hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath f...
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THECEL: thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting.
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PHARES: thy kingdom is divided, and is given to the Medes and Persians.
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Then by the king's command Daniel was clothed with purple, and a chain of gold was put about his nec...
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The same night Baltasar the Chaldean king was slain.
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And Darius the Mede succeeded to the kingdom, being threescore and two years old.
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