But if ye declare the dream and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards, and great honor: therefore show me the dream and the interpretation of it.

They answered again, and said, Let the king show [a]his servants the dream, and we will declare the interpretation thereof.

Then the king answered, and said, I know certainly that ye [b]would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 2:7 Herein appeared their ignorance, that notwithstanding their brags, yet were they not able to tell the dream, except he entered them into the matter, and therefore they would pretend knowledge where was but mere ignorance, and so as deluders of the people, they were worthy to die.
  2. Daniel 2:8 Hebrew, redeem the time.

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