24. Then was the part of the hand sent from the presence of [the Most High God], and this writing was inscribed.
25. And this is the inscription that was written, mene, mene, tekel, upharsin–numbered, numbered, weighed, divisions.
26. This is the interpretation of the matter: mene, God has numbered the days of your kingship and brought them to an end;
27. tekel, You are weighed in the balances and are found wanting;
28. peres, Your kingdom and your kingship are divided and given to the Medes and Persians. [Foretold in Isa. 21:2, 5, 9.]
29. Then Belshazzar commanded, and Daniel was clothed with purple and a chain of gold put about his neck, and a proclamation was made concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
30. During that night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was slain,
31. And Darius the Mede took the kingdom; he was about sixty-two years old.