Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
PERES; thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
WEB
PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”
YLT
Divided--Divided is thy kingdom, and it hath been given to the Medes and Persians.'
DBT
PERES, Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
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