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8 For this cause, at that time men of the Chaldeans drew near and ate up the Jews piece meal. 9 They answered and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king, O king, live forever. 10 Thou, O king, didst set an edict, that every man that shall hear the voice of the horn, the pipe, the harp, the lyre, the psaltery and the bagpipe, and all sorts of music, shall fall and prostrate himself to the image of gold: 11 And whoever shall not fall and prostrate himself shall be cast into the midst of a furnace of flaming fire. 12 There are men, Jews, that thou didst appoint over the business of the province of Babel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego; these men set not an account to thee, O king: they served not to thy gods; and to the image of gold that thou didst set up they prostrated themselves not. Daniel 3:8-12, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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