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in the morning, and went in all haste vnto the ribbes in his mouth betweene his teeth, and they
denne of lyons. 20 And when he came to the saide thus vnto him, Arise and deuoure much
denne, he cryed with a lamentable voyce vnto flesh. 6 After this I behelde, and loe, there was
Daniel: and the King spake, and saide to Daniel, O an other like a leopard, which had vpon his backe
Daniel, theseruantofyeliuingGod, is notthyGod foure wings of a foule: the beast had also foure
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(whom thou alway seruest) able to deliuer thee heads, and dominion was giuen him. After this
from the lyons? 21 Then saide Daniel vnto the I saw in the visions by night, and beholde, the
King, O King, liue for euer. 22 My God hath sent his fourth beast was fearefull and terrible and very
Angel and hath shut the lyons mouthes, that they strong. It had great yron teeth: it deuoured and
haue not hurt mee: for my iustice was founde out brake in pieces and stamped the residue vnder
before him: and vnto thee, O King, I haue done his feete: and it was vnlike to the beasts that
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were before it: for it had ten hornes.
As I
no hurt. 23 Then was the King exceeding glad considered the hornes, beholde, there came vp
for him, and commanded that they should take among them another litle horne, before whome
Daniel out of the denne: so Daniel was brought there were three of the first hornes pluckt away:
out of the denne, and no maner of hurt was and behold, in this horne were eyes like the eyes
found vpon him, because he beleeued in his God. of man, and a mouth speaking presumptuous
24 And by the commandement of the King these things. 9 I behelde, till the thrones were set
me which had accused Daniel, were brought, and vp, and the Ancient of dayes did sit, whose
were cast into the denne of lions, euen they, garment was white as snow, and the heare of
their children, and their wiues: and the lyons his head like the pure wooll: his throne was
had the mastry of them, and brake all their bones like the fierie flame, and his wheeles as burning
a pieces, or euer they came at the groud of the fire. 10 A fierie streame yssued, and came foorth
denne. 25 Afterwarde King Darius wrote, Vnto from beforehim: thousandthousandesministred
all people, nations and languages, that dwel in vnto him, and tenne thousand thousands stoode
all the world: Peace be multiplied vnto you. 26 I before him: the iudgement was set, and the
make a decree that in all the dominion of my bookes opened. 11 Then I behelde, because of
kingdome, men tremble and feare before the God the voyce of the presumptuous wordes, which
of Daniel: for he is the liuing God, and remayneth the horne spake: I behelde, euen till the beast
for euer: and his kingdome shall not perish, was slaine, and his body destroyed, and giuen
and his dominion shalbe euerlasting. 27 Hee to the burning fire. 12 As concerning the other
rescueth and deliuereth, and hee worketh signes beastes, they had taken away their dominion:
and wonders in heauen and in earth, who hath yet their liues were prolonged for a certaine
deliuered Daniel from the power of the lyons. time and season. 13 As I behelde in visions by
28 So this Daniel prospered in the reigne of Darius night, behold, one like the sonne of man came in
and in the reigne of Cyrus of Persia. the cloudes of heauen, and approched vnto the
7 Ancient of dayes, and they brought him before
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1 In the first yeere of Belshazzar King of Babel, him. And he gaue him dominion, and honour,
Daniel sawe a dreame, and there were visions and a kingdome, that all people, nations and
in his head, vpon his bed: then he wrote the languages should serue him: his dominion is
dreame, and declared the summe of the matter. an euerlasting dominion, which shall neuer bee
2 Daniel spake and saide, I sawe in my vision taken away: and his kingdome shall neuer be
by night, and behold, the foure windes of the destroyed. 15 I Daniel was troubled in my spirit,
heauen stroue vpon the great sea: 3 And foure in the middes of my body, and the visions of mine
great beastes came vp from the sea one diuers head made me afraide. 16 Therefore I came vnto
from another. 4 The first was as a lyon, and had one of them that stoode by, and asked him the
eagles wings: I beheld, til the wings thereof were trueth of all this: so he tolde me, and shewed me
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the interpretation of these things.
These great
pluckt of, and it was lifted vp from the earth, beastes which are foure, are foure Kings, which
and set vpon his feete as a man, and a mans shall arise out of the earth, 18 And they shall take
heart was giuen him. 5 And beholde, another the kingdomeof the Saintes of the most High, and
beast which was the second, was like a beare
and stood vpon the one side: and hee had three possesse the kingdome for euer, euen for euer