Daniel 2:5-13 The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The decree is firmly resolved on by me: If ye do not make known unto me the dream with its interpretation, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be changed into a dunghill.

Leeser⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The decree is firmly resolved on by me: If ye do not make known unto me the dream with its interpretation, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be changed into a dunghill. ⁶ But if ye tell the dream and its interpretation, then shall ye receive gifts and rewards and great honor from me. Therefore tell me the dream and its interpretation. ⁷ They answered the second time and said, Let the king recite the dream to his servants, and we will tell its interpretation. ⁸ The king answered and said, I know of a certainty that ye wish to gain time, because ye see the decree is firmly resolved on by me: ⁹ That if ye do not make known unto me the dream, there is but one sentence for you; for ye have prepared lying and deceptive words to speak before me, till the time be changed. Therefore relate to me the dream, and I shall know that ye can tell me its interpretation. ¹⁰ The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the habitable earth that can tell the king’s matter: wherefore no mighty and powerful king ever hath asked such a thing of any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean. ¹¹ And the matter which the king requireth is difficult, and there is no other that can tell it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh. ¹² For all this cause the king became angry, and very furious; and he commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon. ¹³ And the law went forth and some of the wise men were slain: and they sought Daniel and his companions to slay them.