Dan 5:28-31 | ESV | STEP | Peres , your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians .

a ver. 31; [ch. 9:1; Isa. 13:17; 21:2; Jer. 51:28]

bSee ch. 6:28

d[See ver. 22 above]

e[ver. 7, 16]

f Jer. 50:24; 51:31, 39, 57

g[See ver. 22 above]

h ch. 9:1

j ch. 9:1

k[See ver. 28 above]

Daniel 5:28-31

28 Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to ^athe Medes and ^bPersians.” ^{▼▼ Peres (the singular of Parsin) sounds like the Aramaic for divided and for Persia}

29 Then ^dBelshazzar gave the command, and Daniel ^ewas clothed with purple, a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation was made about him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

30 ^fThat very night ^gBelshazzar the ^hChaldean king was killed. 31 ^{▼▼Ch 6:1 in Aramaic} And ^jDarius ^kthe Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.