¹⁴ נביאיך חזו לך שוא ותפל ולא־גלו על־עונך להשיב [כ= שביתך] [ק= שבותך] ויחזו לך משאות שוא ומדוחים׃ ס

⁷ All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

⁸ Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn't alter.

⁹ Therefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.