Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
WEB
Now this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN.
YLT
and this is the writing that is noted down: Numbered, Numbered, Weighed, and Divided.
DBT
And this is the writing that is written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
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