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Daniel 1:20

Context
NETBible

In every matter of wisdom and 1  insight the king asked them about, he found them to be ten times 2  better than any of the magicians and astrologers that were in his entire empire.

XREF

Ge 31:7; Ge 41:8; Ex 7:11,12,22; Ex 8:7,19; Nu 14:22; 1Ki 4:29-34; 1Ki 10:1-3,23,24; Ne 4:12; Job 19:3; Ps 119:99; Isa 19:3; Isa 47:12-14; Da 2:2-11,21-13; Da 4:7,8-18; Da 5:7,8,17; 2Ti 3:8,9

NET © Notes

tc The MT lacks the conjunction, reading the first word in the phrase as a construct (“wisdom of insight”). While this reading is not impossible, it seems better to follow Theodotion, the Syriac, the Vulgate, and the Sahidic Coptic, all of which have the conjunction.

tn Heb “hands.”



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