^{2 Ref} and the king saith to call for scribes, and for enchanters, and for sorcerers, and for Chaldeans, to declare to the king his dreams. And they come in and stand before the king;

^{3 Ref} and the king saith to them, `A dream I have dreamed, and moved is my spirit to know the dream.'

^{4 Ref} And the Chaldeans speak to the king `in' Aramaean, `O king, to the ages live, tell the dream to thy servants, and the interpretation we do shew.'

^{5 Ref} The king hath answered and said to the Chaldeans, `The thing from me is gone; if ye do not cause me to know the dream and its interpretation, pieces ye are made, and your houses are made dunghills;

^{6 Ref} and if the dream and its interpretation ye do shew, gifts, and fee, and great glory ye receive from before me, therefore the dream and its interpretation shew ye me.'

^{7 Ref} They have answered a second time, and are saying, `Let the king tell the dream to his servants, and the interpretation we do shew.

^{8 Ref} The king hath answered and said, `Of a truth I know that time ye are gaining, because that ye have seen that the thing is gone from me,

^{9 Ref} `so' that, if the dream ye do not cause me to know -- one is your sentence, seeing a word lying and corrupt ye have prepared to speak before me, till that the time is changed, therefore the dream tell ye to me, then do I know that its interpretation ye do shew me.'

^{10 Ref} The Chaldeans have answered before the king, and are saying, `There is not a man on the earth who is able to shew the king's matter; therefore, no king, chief, and ruler, hath asked such a thing as this of any scribe, and enchanter, and Chaldean;