³ tn Heb “into pieces.”

⁴ tn Heb “smashed in pieces.”

² tn Heb “these pieces.”

⁴ tn Or “crumbled,” “broke into pieces.”

³ tn Grk “on pieces from the ship”; that is, pieces of wreckage from the ship.

² sn The piece of bread was a broken-off piece of bread (not merely a crumb).

³ tn Aram “ate the pieces of.” This is a rather vivid idiom for slander.

¹ tc Theodotion and the Vulgate lack the phrase “and as iron breaks in pieces.”

² tn Heb “Is it not like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?” See preceding note.

¹ tn Heb “a piece of silver” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

¹ tn Heb “her”; the referent is more naturally stated in English as “the pieces.”

¹ tn Heb “he carved her up by her bones into twelve pieces.”

¹ tn Heb “poured out,” probably referring to the way the silver pieces poured out of their container.

² tn Heb “from it were its horns,” meaning that they were made from the same piece.

¹ tn Heb “its horns were from it,” meaning from the same piece.

² tn Or “a [piece of] wood” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV, TEV, CEV); NLT “a branch.”

² tn Aram “had eaten the pieces of.” The Aramaic expression is ironic, in that the accusers who had figuratively “eaten the pieces of Daniel” are themselves literally devoured by the lions.

³ sn The angels were to form one piece with the lid and not be separated. This could be translated “of one piece with” the lid, but it is likely the angels were simply fastened to it permanently.

² tn Heb “portion”; cf. KJV, ASV “piece,” NASB “part.” The same word occurs a second time later in this verse.

¹ tn The verb means “nipped off,” as a potter breaks off a piece of clay when molding a vessel.