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OET (OET-LV) [fn] now Oh/the_king you_will_establish the_prohibition and_you_will_sign the_writing that not to_change according_to_the_law_of the_Māday and_the_Pāraşns which not it_will_pass_away.
6:9 Note: KJB: Dān.6.8
The new Persian king, Darius the Mede, chose Daniel to be one of the three officials who administered the kingdom. Daniel did his work so well that the other officials became jealous of him. One day they asked the king to pass a law that forbade praying to anyone but him for a period of thirty days. The king signed the law. Daniel, however, refused to obey it and continued to pray to the one true God, the God of Israel. When the king heard that Daniel had disobeyed the law, he ordered his soldiers to throw Daniel into the pit where he kept hungry lions. But God protected Daniel. The lions did not hurt him. When the king saw this, he punished Daniel’s enemies and honored Daniel and the God of Israel.
Other possible headings for this section include:
Daniel in the Pit of Lions (GNT)
Daniel and the Lions (NCV)
God protected Daniel from lions
Historical Background: The Persian empire under Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon in 539/538 BC, when Daniel was over seventy years old.Daniel was taken captive and brought to Babylon in approximately 605 B.C. If he was 12 years old when he came, he would have been 78 when this story began. The Persian empire became larger than the Babylonian empire had ever been. It extended west to include both Egypt and Libya. It extended east as far as the Indus River in what is now Pakistan. It was the largest empire in the history of the world up to that time.
Some commentators think that Darius the Mede was another name or title for the Persian King Cyrus or for the governor under him, Gubaru.
Text:
The verse numbers in the NJPS and the NJB are different from the verse numbers in the BSB. For example, 6:1 in the NJPS and the NJB is 5:31 in the BSB. The difference is because the NJPS and NJB follow the numbers in the Hebrew Bible. These Notes follow the verse numbers in the BSB.
Special Problems:
1. Lists: The author liked to include lists. In Daniel 6, he listed the different officials who conspired against Daniel (6:1–2; 7). Some languages may not have so many terms for officials. The Notes will suggest some ways to translate these lists.
2. Repetition: The author liked to repeat words and phrases in order to create suspense and emphasis. The Notes will give some suggestions on how to translate words or phrases that are repeated.
3. Verbs of Speech: The author sometimes used more than one verb of speech to introduce a quotation. In some languages, this may not be natural. The Notes will offer some options on how to translate these verbs.
4. Synonyms: The author liked to use synonyms or near synonyms to refer to the same idea. For example: 6:7–9 (ordinance, law, decree); 6:14 (rescue, delivering); 6:26 (kingdom, dominion); 6:27b (signs, wonders). The Notes will suggest different ways to translate these terms.
This paragraph indicates what the officials did as a result of what they had concluded in the previous paragraph. They went and spoke to the king in order to trap Daniel in connection with the laws of his God.
Therefore King Darius signed the written decree.
As a result of their request, the king signed the written ban.
So King Darius signed the law that prohibited people from praying to their god/God.
Therefore: The Aramaic connector that the BSB translates as Therefore here introduces a result clause.The Translator’s Handbook on Daniel argues that the connector has a more general sense, such as in NJB and NEB (“accordingly”). Introduce this result in a way that is natural in your language. For example:
And so (GNT)
therefore (RSV/NRSV)
accordingly (NJB)
King Darius signed the written decree: As in 6:8a, there are two ways to interpret the Aramaic verb that the BSB translates as signed the written decree:
it means “signed.” For example:
King Darius signed the order (GNT) (BSB, NASB, GNT, RSV/NRSV, ESV, KJV, GW, NLT, REB, NCV)
it means “wrote down.” For example:
King Darius issued the written interdict. (NET) (NIV, NET, CEV)
It is recommended that you follow interpretation (1), as in 6:8a.
signed the written decree: The Aramaic phrase that the BSB translates as signed the written decree is more literally “signed the writing and/even the decree.” Both terms (“writing” and “decree”) refer to the same law. Translate in a way that does not imply that there were two documents. See the notes on 6:7b and 6:8a. Here is another way to translate this:
King Darius signed the document, that is, the injunction (NASB)
Other ways to translate this include:
Darius signed the written decree (GW)
King Darius signed the law (NLT)
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
כָּל־קֳבֵ֖ל דְּנָ֑ה
(Some words not found in UHB: now Oh/the=king establish the,prohibition and,you_will_sign the,writing that/who not to,change according,to_the_law_of medes and_[the],Persians that/who not revoked )
Daniel is using All before this as a common expression of the culture to mean “so” or “therefore.” If this phrase does not have that meaning for your readers, you could use a comparable expression from your language that does have that meaning, or you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [So then] or [Therefore]
OET (OET-LV) [fn] now Oh/the_king you_will_establish the_prohibition and_you_will_sign the_writing that not to_change according_to_the_law_of the_Māday and_the_Pāraşns which not it_will_pass_away.
6:9 Note: KJB: Dān.6.8
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.
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