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Daniel 5:5 (Listen)

kImmediately lthe fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw mthe hand as it wrote.

Daniel 5:24-28 (Listen)

24 “Then from his presence ithe hand was sent, and this writing was inscribed. 25 And this is the writing that was inscribed: Mene, Mene, Tekel, and Parsin. 26 This is the interpretation of the matter: Mene, God has numbered1 the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; 27 Tekel, jyou have been weighed2 in the balances and found wanting; 28 Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to kthe Medes and lPersians.”3

Footnotes

[1] 5:26 Mene sounds like the Aramaic for numbered
[2] 5:27 Tekel sounds like the Aramaic for weighed
[3] 5:28 Peres (the singular of Parsin) sounds like the Aramaic for divided and for Persia