^{6 Ref} Then these presidents and satraps have assembled near the king, and thus they are saying to him: `O king Darius, to the ages live!

^{7 Ref} Taken counsel have all the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects, and the satraps, the counsellors, and the governors, to establish a royal statute, and to strengthen an interdict, that any who seeketh a petition from any god and man until thirty days, save of thee, O king, is cast into a den of lions.