Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego emerged from the fire. 2
While I was watching,
there was a tree in the middle of the land. 4
It was enormously tall. 5
1 tn Aram “answered and said.”
2 tn Aram “from the midst of the fire.” For stylistic reasons the words “the midst of” have been left untranslated.
3 tc The LXX lacks the first two words (Aram “the visions of my head”) of the Aramaic text.
4 tn Instead of “in the middle of the land,” some English versions render this phrase “a tree at the center of the earth” (NRSV); NAB, CEV “of the world”; NLT “in the middle of the earth.” The Hebrew phrase can have either meaning.
5 tn Aram “its height was great.”