Catholic Public Domain Version

Daniel 5:27-31 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

27. THECEL: you have been weighed on the scales and found lacking.

28. PHARES: your kingdom has been divided and has been given to the Medes and the Persians.

29. Then, by the king's command, Daniel was dressed with purple, and a chain of gold was placed around his neck, and it was proclaimed of him that he held power as the third in the kingdom.

30. That same night, king Belshazzar the Chaldean was killed.

31. And Darius the Mede succeeded to the kingdom, at the age of sixty-two years.