26 This is the interpretation of the message:

‘Mene’[a] means that God has numbered[b] the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end.(A)

27 ‘Tekel’[c] means that you have been weighed[d] on the balance and found deficient.

28 ‘Peres’[e][f] means that your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”[g]

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Footnotes

  1. 5:26 Or a mina
  2. 5:26 The Aramaic word for numbered sounds like mene.
  3. 5:27 Or a shekel
  4. 5:27 The Aramaic word for weighed sounds like tekel.
  5. 5:28 Or half a shekel
  6. 5:28 In Aramaic, the word peres is the sg form of “parsin” in v. 25.
  7. 5:28 The Aramaic word for divided and Persians sounds like peres.

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