3 and four great live beings ascend from the sea, changed one from another.
4 The first like a lion with wings of an eagle: I see until the wings are plucked; and it lifts from the earth and it raises on its feet as a man; and it is given the heart of a man.
5 And behold, another live being, a second, like a bear: and it raises itself on its side; with three ribs in its mouth between its teeth: and they say thus to it, Rise, devour much flesh.
6 After this I see, and behold, another like a leopard: and on its back, four wings of a flyer; the live being also having four heads; and it is given dominion.
7 After this I see in the night visions, and behold, a fourth live being, terrifying and burly, and exceedingly mighty, with great iron teeth: it devours and pulverizes and tramples the survivors with its feet: and it is changed from all the live beings in front of it - with ten horns.
8 I am comprehending the horns, and behold, another little horn ascends between them; in front of whom three of the first horns uproot: and behold, in this horn, eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth uttering greatly.
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DANI EL SEES THE ANCIENT OF DAYS
I see until the thrones are hurled: and the Ancient of days sits with robe as white snow, and the hair of his head as clean wool; his throne as a fiery flame and his wheels as flaming fire.
10 A fiery river flows and emerges from in front of him: a thousand thousands minister to him, and a myriad myriads rise in front of him: the judgment is set, and the scrolls are opened.
11 I see, then, because of the voice of the great utterances the horn utters: I see until the live being is severed and his body destroyed and given to the burning flame:
12 the survivors of the live beings, pass their dominion away: yet their lives are given until an appointment and time.
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DANI EL SEES THE SON/BAR OF MAN
I see in the night visions, and behold, like the Son/Bar of man, comes with the clouds of the heavens, and comes to the Ancient of days, and they approach in front of him:
14 and he is given dominion and esteem and a sovereigndom - so that all people, nations and tongues serve him: his dominion is an eternal dominion which passes not away; and his sovereigndom despoils not.
15 I Dani El grieve in my spirit midst my sheath, and the visions of my head terrify me.
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DANI EL INTERPRETS THE UTTERANCES
I approach one of them who rises, and request of him the certainty of all this: and he says to me and has me know the interpretation of the utterances.
17 These great live beings, four, are four sovereigns rising from the earth: