Daniel 1

a 1:2 Hebrew Shinar

b 1:4 Or Chaldeans

c 1:10 The Hebrew for your and you in this verse is plural.

Daniel 2

a 2:2 Or Chaldeans; also in verses 4,5 and 10

b 2:3 Or was

c 2:4 At this point the Hebrew text has in Aramaic, indicating that the text from here through the end of chapter 7 is in Aramaic.

Daniel 3

a 3:1 That is, about 90 feet high and 9 feet wide or about 27 meters high and 2.7 meters wide

b 3:8 Or Chaldeans

c 3:17 Or If the God we serve is able to deliver us, then he will deliver us from the blazing furnace and

Daniel 4

a In Aramaic texts 4:1-3 is numbered 3:31-33, and 4:4-37 is numbered 4:1-34.

b 4:7 Or Chaldeans

c 4:13 Or watchman; also in verses 17 and 23

d 4:16 Or years; also in verses 23,25 and 32

Daniel 5

a 5:2 Or ancestor; or predecessor; also in verses 11,13 and 18

b 5:7 Or Chaldeans; also in verse 11

c 5:10 Or queen mother

d 5:22 Or descendant; or successor

e 5:26 Mene can mean numbered or mina (a unit of money).

f 5:27 Tekel can mean weighed or shekel.

g 5:28 Peres (the singular of Parsin) can mean divided or Persia or a half mina or a half shekel.

h 5:30 Or Chaldeans

i 5:31 In Aramaic texts this verse (5:31) is numbered 6:1.

Daniel 6

a In Aramaic texts 6:1-28 is numbered 6:2-29.

b 6:28 Or Darius, that is, the reign of Cyrus

Daniel 7

a 7:13 The Aramaic phrase bar enash means human being. The phrase son of man is retained here because of its use in the New Testament as a title of Jesus, probably based largely on this verse.

b 7:25 Or for a year, two years and half a year

Daniel 8

a 8:12 Or rebellion, the armies

b 8:17 The Hebrew phrase ben adam means human being. The phrase son of man is retained as a form of address here because of its possible association with “Son of Man” in the New Testament.

c 8:19 Or because the end will be at the appointed time

Daniel 9

a 9:1 Hebrew Ahasuerus

b 9:1 Or Chaldean

c 9:24 Or ‘weeks’; also in verses 25 and 26

d 9:24 Or restrain

e 9:24 Or the most holy One

f 9:25 Or an anointed one; also in verse 26

g 9:26 Or death and will have no one; or death, but not for himself

h 9:27 Or ‘week’

i 9:27 Or ‘week’

j 9:27 Septuagint and Theodotion; Hebrew wing

k 9:27 Or it

l 9:27 Or And one who causes desolation will come upon the wing of the abominable temple, until the end that is decreed is poured out on the desolated city

Daniel 10

a 10:1 Or true and burdensome

b 10:16 Most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text; one manuscript of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint Then something that looked like a human hand

Daniel 11

a 11:6 Or offspring

b 11:6 Or child (see Vulgate and Syriac)

c 11:17 Or but she

d 11:39 Or land for a reward

e 11:43 That is, people from the upper Nile region

f 11:45 Or the sea and

Daniel 12

a 12:3 Or who impart wisdom

b 12:7 Or a year, two years and half a year