• Daniel 6:12
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)

    • 12 So they approached the king and reminded him about the royal ban: “Did you not sign a ban stating that for 30 days any man who makes a petition to any god or man except to you, O king, should be thrown into the lions’ pit?” The king replied: “The matter is well-established according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, which cannot be annulled.”+

  • Daniel 6:12
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

    • 12 So they approached the king and reminded him about the royal ban: “Did you not sign a ban stating that for 30 days any man who makes a petition to any god or man except to you, O king, should be thrown into the lions’ pit?” The king replied: “The matter is well-established according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, which cannot be annulled.”+

  • Daniel 6:12
    The Bible in Living English

    • 12* Then they presented themselves and said before the king “Your majesty, did you not have a prohibition inscribed that any man who makes a petition to any god or man except your majesty for thirty days shall be thrown into the lion-pit?”

      The king answered “It is a settled thing with the irreversibleness of Median and Persian law.”

  • Daniel 6:12
    American Standard Version

    • 12 Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king’s interdict: Hast thou not signed an interdict, that every man that shall make petition unto any god or man within thirty days, save unto thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.

  • Daniel 6:12
    The Emphasized Bible

    • 12 Then drew they near and began to speak before the king concerning the royal interdict, Didst thou not sign an interdict That any man who should petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee O king should be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, Certain is the thing—according to the law of the Medes and Persians which may not be abolished.

  • Daniel 6:12
    King James Version

    • 12 Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king’s decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.