Catholic Public Domain Version
"Then the leaders and governors took the king aside privately and spoke to him in this way: “King Darius, live forever. "
— Daniel 6:6, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.”
“Then these presidents and satraps assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever. ”
“Then these presidents and satraps assembled together to the king, and said thus to him, King Darius, live forever.”
“So these supervisors and satraps came by collusion to the king and said to him,“O King Darius, live forever!”
“Then the princes, and the governors, craftily suggested to the king, and spoke thus unto him: King Darius, live for ever:”
“Then these chief rulers and the captains came to the king and said to him, O King Darius, have life for ever.”
“Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.”
And so Daniel excelled above all the leaders and governors, because a greater spirit of God was in him.
Furthermore, the king considered setting him over the entire kingdom; whereupon the leaders and the governors sought to find a complaint against Daniel and in favor of the king. And they could find no case, or even suspicion, because he was faithful, and no fault or suspicion was found in him.
Therefore, these men said, “We will not find any complaint against this Daniel, unless it is against the law of his God.”
Then the leaders and governors took the king aside privately and spoke to him in this way: “King Darius, live forever.
All the leaders of your kingdom, the magistrates and governors, the senators and judges, have taken counsel that an imperial decree and edict should be published, so that all who ask any petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, will be cast into the den of lions.
Now, therefore, O king, confirm this judgment and write the decree, so that what is established by the Medes and Persians may not be altered, nor will any man be allowed to transgress it.”
And so king Darius set forth the decree and established it.