Dan 6:12 | NETfull | STEP | So they approached the king and said to him, “Did you not issue an edict to the effect that for the next thirty days anyone who prays to any god or human other than to you, O king, would be thrown into a den of lions?” The king replied, “That is correct, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.”

Daniel 6:12

12 So they approached the king and said to him, ^{▼▼ The MT also has “about the edict of the king,” but this phrase is absent in the LXX and the Syriac. The present translation deletes the expression.} ^{▼▼ Aram “before the king.”} “Did you not issue an edict to the effect that for the next thirty days anyone who prays to any god or human other than to you, O king, would be thrown into a den of lions?” The king replied, “That is correct, ^{▼▼ Aram “the word is true.”} according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.”