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Daniel 8:1

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Daniel Has a Vision of a Goat and a Ram

8:1 1 In the third year 2  of King Belshazzar’s reign, a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after the one that had appeared to me previously. 3 

1 sn Dan 8:1 marks the switch from Aramaic (= 2:4b-7:28) back to Hebrew as the language in which the book is written in its present form. The remainder of the book from this point on (8:1-12:13) is in Hebrew. The bilingual nature of the book has been variously explained, but it most likely has to do with the book’s transmission history.

2 sn The third year of King Belshazzar’s reign would have been ca. 551 B.C. Daniel would have been approximately 69 years old at the time of this vision.

3 tn Heb “in the beginning.” This refers to the vision described in chapter seven.



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