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Daniel 5:24-31 Good News Bible (GNB)

24. That is why God has sent the hand to write these words.

25. “This is what was written: ‘Number, number, weight, divisions.’

26. And this is what it means: number, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end;

27. weight, you have been weighed on the scales and found to be too light;

28. divisions, your kingdom is divided up and given to the Medes and Persians.”

29. Immediately Belshazzar ordered his servants to dress Daniel in a robe of royal purple and to hang a gold chain of honour round his neck. And he made him the third in power in the kingdom.

30. That same night Belshazzar, the king of Babylonia, was killed;

31. and Darius the Mede, who was then 62 years old, seized the royal power.