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OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 1

Daniel 3:1

World English Bible Updated

Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits† and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

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Daniel 3:1–4

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Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits† and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

2

Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the local governors, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

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Then the local governors, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces were gathered together to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

4

Then the herald cried aloud, “To you it is commanded, peoples, nations, and languages,

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  1. A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.

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