Daniel 6:6-9

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6 Then these commissioners and satraps came ¹by agreement to the king and said thus to him: “King Darius, ^alive forever! 7 All the ^acommissioners of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the high officials and the governors have ^bcounseled together that the king should establish a statute and enforce an injunction that anyone who seeks to make a petition ¹to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, shall ^cbe cast into the lions’ ²den. 8 Now, O king, ^aestablish the injunction and ¹sign the written document so that it may not be changed, according to the ^blaw of the Medes and Persians, which ²may not be revoked.” 9 Therefore King Darius ^asigned the written document, that is, the injunction.