Dan 7:1-6 | ESV | STEP | In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon , Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head as he lay in his bed . Then he wrote down the dream and told the sum of the matter .

Daniel 7:1-6

Daniel’s Vision of the Four Beasts

1 In the first year of ^aBelshazzar king of Babylon, ^bDaniel saw a dream and ^cvisions of his head as he lay in his bed. Then he wrote down the dream and told the sum of the matter. 2 Daniel declared, ^{▼▼Aramaic answered and said} “I saw in my vision by night, and behold, ^ethe four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea. 3 And four great beasts ^fcame up out of the sea, different from one another. 4 The first was like a lion and had eagles’ wings. Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man, and the mind of a man was given to it. 5 And behold, ^ganother beast, a second one, like a bear. It was raised up on one side. It had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and it was told, ‘Arise, devour much flesh.’ 6 After this I looked, and behold, another, like a ^hleopard, with four wings of a bird on its back. And the beast had four heads, and ⁱdominion was given to it.