¹⁷ These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, [that] shall arise out of the earth.

² Immediately I became in [the] Spirit; and behold, a throne stood in the heaven, and upon the throne one sitting,

⁷ 'They will take away your sons who will issue from you, whom you shall father, and they will be eunuchs in the king of Babylon's palace.'"