Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks.
WEB
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks.
YLT
`In those days, I, Daniel, have been mourning three weeks of days;
DBT
In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks:
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentDaniel — A Hebrew exile at Babylonian and Persian courts sees empires rise and fall, a Son of Man coming with clouds, and seventy weeks locating Messiah in time. The canon's densest apocalyptic text — and its most interpretively contested.
- Author
- Daniel (traditional — Jesus cites ‘Daniel the prophet’ in Matt 24:15); critical scholarship dates composition to the 2nd c. BC Maccabean period (§7.9 — both surfaced)
- Date
- Traditional: 6th c. BC. Critical: c. 165 BC. Site default: traditional; critical view surfaced at depth 2