28 Peres; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

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28 Peres[a]: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes(A) and Persians.”(B)

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  1. Daniel 5:28 Peres (the singular of Parsin) can mean divided or Persia or a half mina or a half shekel.

30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.

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30 That very night Belshazzar,(A) king(B) of the Babylonians,[a] was slain,(C)

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  1. Daniel 5:30 Or Chaldeans

31 And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

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31 and Darius(A) the Mede(B) took over the kingdom, at the age of sixty-two.[a]

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  1. Daniel 5:31 In Aramaic texts this verse (5:31) is numbered 6:1.