²⁵ He exclaimed, “Look! I see four men, not tied, walking around in the fire unharmed;^(A) and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.”^[a](B)

²⁶ Nebuchadnezzar then approached the door of the furnace of blazing fire and called, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God—come out!” So Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the fire.^{(C) 27} When the satraps, prefects, governors, and the king’s advisers gathered around, they saw that the fire had no effect^(D) on^[b] the bodies of these men: not a hair of their heads was singed, their robes were unaffected, and there was no smell of fire on them.^(E)