• 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
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References

    • 12 Then it was that they approached and were saying before the king concerning the interdict of the king: “Is there not an interdict that you have signed that any man that asks a petition from any god or man for thirty days except from you, O king, he should be thrown to the lions’ pit?”+ The king was answering and saying: “The matter is well established according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, which is not 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
    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.