¹ I Perserkongen Kyros tredje regeringsår modtog Daniel, som havde fået Navnet Beltsazzar, en Åbenbaring; og Ordet er Sandhed og varsler om stor Trængsel. Og han mærkede sig Ordet og agtede på Synet.

² På den Tid holdt jeg, Daniel. Sorg i hele tre Uger.

³ Lækre Spiser nød jeg ikke, Kød og Vin kom ikke i min Mund, og jeg salvede mig ikke, før hele tre Uger var gået.

⁴ Men på den fire og tyvende Dag i den første Måned var jeg ved Bredden af den store Flod, det er Hiddekel.

⁵ Og jeg løftede Øjnene og skuede, og se, der var en Mand, som var iført linnede Klæder og havde et Bælte af fint Ofirguld om Hofterne.

⁶ Hans Legeme var som Krysolit, hans Ansigt strålede som Lynet, hans Øjne var som Ildsluer, hans Arme og Ben som blankt Kobber og hans øst som en larmende Hob.

⁷ Jeg, Daniel, var den eneste, der så Synet; de Mænd, som var hos mig, så det ikke; men stor ædsel faldt over dem, og de flygtede og gemte sig,

⁸ så jeg blev ene tilbage. Da jeg så dette vældige Syn, blev der ikke Kraft tilbage i mig, og mit Ansigt skiftede Farve og blev ligblegt, og jeg havde ingen Kræfter mere.

⁹ Da hørte jeg ham tale, og som jeg hørte det, faldt jeg, bedøvet om med Ansigtet imod Jorden.

¹⁰ Og se, en Hånd rørte ved mig og fik mig skælvende op på mine Knæ og Hænder.

¹¹ Og han sagde til mig: "Daniel, du højt elskede Mand, mærk dig de Ord, jeg taler til dig, og rejs dig op, thi nu er jeg sendt til dig,!" Og da han talede således til mig, rejste jeg mig skælvende.

¹² Så sagde han til mig: "Frygt ikke, Daniel, thi straks den første Dag du gav dit Hjerte hen til at søge indsigt og ydmyge dig for din Guds Åsyn, blev dine Ord hørt, og jeg er kommet for dine Ords Skyld.

¹³ Perserrigets Fyrste stod mig imod i een og tyve Dage, men se, da kom Mikael, en af de ypperste Fyrster, mig til Hjælp; ham lod jeg blive der hos Perserkongernes Fyrste;

¹⁴ og nu er jeg kommet for at lade dig vide, hvad der skal times dit Folk i de sidste Dage; thi atter er der en Åbenbaring om de Dage."

¹⁵ Medens han talede således til mig, bøjede jeg målløs Ansigtet mod Jorden.

¹⁶ Og se, noget, der så ud som en Menneskehånd, rørte ved mine Læber, og jeg åbnede min Mund og talte således til ham, som stod for mig: "Herre, ved Synet overvældedes jeg af Smerter og har ikke flere kræfter.

¹⁷ Og hvor kan jeg, min Herres ringe Træl, tale til dig, høje Herre? Af ædsel har jeg mistet min Kraft, og der er ikke Vejr tilbage i mig!"

¹⁸ Så rørte atter en som et Menneske at se til ved mig og styrkede mig;

¹⁹ og han sagde: "Frygt ikke, du højt elskede Mand! Fred være med dig, vær trøstig og ved godt Mod!" Og som han talede med mig, følte jeg mig styrket og sagde: "Tal, Herre, thi du har styrket mig!"

²⁰ Da sagde han: "Ved du, hvorfor jeg kom til dig? Jeg må nu straks vende tilbage for at kæmpe med Persiens Fyrste, og så snart jeg er færdig dermed, se, da kommer Grækenlands Fyrste.

²¹ Og ikke een hjælper mig imod dem undtagen Mikael, eders Fyrste,

⁹ Hamret Sølv, indført fra Tarsis, og Guld fra Ofir, et Værk af en Håndværker og Guldsmedens Hænder! De er klædt i violet og rødt Purpur; et Værk af kunstsnilde Folk er de alle.

¹ He brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tent.

² The breadth of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured its length, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits.

³ Then went he inward, and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the breadth of the entrance, seven cubits.

⁴ He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place.

⁵ Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side room, four cubits, all around the house on every side.

⁶ The side rooms were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side rooms all around, that they might have hold [therein], and not have hold in the wall of the house.

⁷ The side rooms were broader as they encompassed [the house] higher and higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher around the house: therefore the breadth of the house [continued] upward; and so one went up [from] the lowest [room] to the highest by the middle [room].

⁸ I saw also that the house had a raised base all around: the foundations of the side rooms were a full reed of six great cubits.

⁹ The thickness of the wall, which was for the side rooms, on the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side rooms that belonged to the house.

¹⁰ Between the rooms was a breadth of twenty cubits around the house on every side.

¹¹ The doors of the side rooms were toward [the place] that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits all around.

¹² The building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.

¹³ So he measured the house, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, one hundred cubits long;

¹⁴ also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, one hundred cubits.

¹⁵ He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at its back, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches of the court;

¹⁶ the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, over against the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and [from] the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),

¹⁷ to [the space] above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure.

¹⁸ It was made with cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces;

¹⁹ so that there was the face of a man toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. [thus was it] made through all the house all around:

²⁰ from the ground to above the door were cherubim and palm trees made: thus was the wall of the temple.

²¹ As for the temple, the door posts were squared; and as for the face of the sanctuary, the appearance [of it] was as the appearance [of the temple].

²² The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits; and its corners, and its length, and its walls, were of wood: and he said to me, This is the table that is before Yahweh.

²³ The temple and the sanctuary had two doors.

²⁴ The doors had two leaves [apiece], two turning leaves: two [leaves] for the one door, and two leaves for the other.

²⁵ There were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm trees, like as were made on the walls; and there was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside.

²⁶ There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch: thus were the side rooms of the house, and the thresholds.