¹ 巴比伦王伯沙撒元年，但以理在床上做梦，见了脑中的异象，就记录这梦，述说其中的大意。

² 但以理说：我夜里见异象，看见天的四风陡起，刮在大海之上。

³ 有四个大兽从海中上来，形状各有不同：

⁴ 头一个像狮子，有鹰的翅膀；我正观看的时候，兽的翅膀被拔去，兽从地上得立起来，用两脚站立，像人一样，又得了人心。

⁵ 又有一兽如熊，就是第二兽，旁跨而坐，口齿内衔着三根肋骨。有吩咐这兽的说：起来吞吃多肉。

⁶ 此後我观看，又有一兽如豹，背上有鸟的四个翅膀；这兽有四个头，又得了权柄。

⁷ 其後我在夜间的异象中观看，见第四兽甚是可怕，极其强壮，大有力量，有大铁牙，吞吃嚼碎，所剩下的用脚践踏。这兽与前三兽大不相同，头有十角。

⁸ 我正观看这些角，见其中又长起一个小角；先前的角中有三角在这角前，连根被他拔出来。这角有眼，像人的眼，有口说夸大的话。

⁹ 我观看，见有宝座设立，上头坐着亘古常在者。他的衣服洁白如雪，头发如纯净的羊毛。宝座乃火焰，其轮乃烈火。

¹⁰ 从他面前有火，像河发出；事奉他的有千千，在他面前侍立的有万万；他坐着要行审判，案卷都展开了。

¹¹ 那时我观看，见那兽因小角说夸大话的声音被杀，身体损坏，扔在火中焚烧。

¹² 其馀的兽，权柄都被夺去，生命却仍存留，直到所定的时候和日期。

¹³ 我在夜间的异象中观看，见有一位像人子的，驾着天云而来，被领到亘古常在者面前，

¹⁴ 得了权柄、荣耀、国度，使各方、各国、各族的人都事奉他。他的权柄是永远的，不能废去；他的国必不败坏。

¹⁵ 至於我─但以理，我的灵在我里面愁烦，我脑中的异象使我惊惶。

¹⁶ 我就近一位侍立者，问他这一切的真情。他就告诉我，将那事的讲解给我说明。

¹⁷ 这四个大兽就是四王将要在世上兴起。

¹⁸ 然而，至高者的圣民，必要得国享受，直到永永远远。

¹⁹ 那时我愿知道第四兽的真情，他为何与那三兽的真情大不相同，甚是可怕，有铁牙铜爪，吞吃嚼碎，所剩下的用脚践踏；

²⁰ 头有十角和那另长的一角，在这角前有三角被他打落。这角有眼，有说夸大话的口，形状强横，过於他的同类。

²¹ 我观看，见这角与圣民争战，胜了他们。

²² 直到亘古常在者来给至高者的圣民伸冤，圣民得国的时候就到了。

²³ 那侍立者这样说：第四兽就是世上必有的第四国，与一切国大不相同，必吞吃全地，并且践踏嚼碎。

²⁴ 至於那十角，就是从这国中必兴起的十王，後来又兴起一王，与先前的不同；他必制伏三王。

²⁵ 他必向至高者说夸大的话，必折磨至高者的圣民，必想改变节期和律法。圣民必交付他手一载、二载、半载。

²⁶ 然而，审判者必坐着行审判；他的权柄必被夺去，毁坏，灭绝，一直到底。

²⁷ 国度、权柄，和天下诸国的大权必赐给至高者的圣民。他的国是永远的；一切掌权的都必事奉他，顺从他。

²⁸ 那事至此完毕。至於我─但以理，心中甚是惊惶，脸色也改变了，却将那事存记在心。

¹ Moreover, when you shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer an offering to Yahweh, a holy portion of the land; the length shall be the length of twenty-five thousand [reeds], and the breadth shall be ten thousand: it shall be holy in all its border all around.

² Of this there shall be for the holy place five hundred [in length] by five hundred [in breadth], square all around; and fifty cubits for its suburbs all around.

³ Of this measure you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand, and a breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary, which is most holy.

⁴ It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to Yahweh; and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary.

⁵ Twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth, shall be to the Levites, the ministers of the house, for a possession to themselves, [for] Twenty rooms.

⁶ You shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and twenty-five thousand long, side by side with the offering of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.

⁷ [Whatever is] for the prince [shall be] on the one side and on the other side of the holy offering and of the possession of the city, in front of the holy offering and in front of the possession of the city, on the west side westward, and on the east side eastward; and in length answerable to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.

⁸ In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

⁹ Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people, says the Lord Yahweh.

¹⁰ You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

¹¹ The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: its measure shall be after the homer.

¹² The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.

¹³ This is the offering that you shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of wheat; and you shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of barley;

¹⁴ and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, [which is] ten baths, even a homer; (for ten baths are a homer;)

¹⁵ and one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred, from the well-watered pastures of Israel--for a meal offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them, says the Lord Yahweh.

¹⁶ All the people of the land shall give to this offering for the prince in Israel.

¹⁷ It shall be the prince's part to give the burnt offerings, and the meal offerings, and the drink offerings, in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meal offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.

¹⁸ Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the first [month], in the first [day] of the month, you shall take a young bull without blemish; and you shall cleanse the sanctuary.

¹⁹ The priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it on the door posts of the house, and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner court.

²⁰ So you shall do on the seventh [day] of the month for everyone who errs, and for him who is simple: so you shall make atonement for the house.

²¹ In the first [month], in the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

²² On that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.

²³ The seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to Yahweh, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering.

²⁴ He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

²⁵ In the seventh [month], in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, shall he do the like the seven days; according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meal offering, and according to the oil.