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The queen entered the banquet ^(F1)hall because of the words of the king and his nobles; the queen began to speak and said, "^(C1)O king, live forever! Do not let your thoughts alarm you or your ^(F2)face be pale.

"There is a ^(C1)man in your kingdom in whom is ^(F1)a ^(C2)spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father, illumination, insight, and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods were found in him. And King Nebuchadnezzar, your father—your father ^(F2)(C3)the king—appointed him chief of the soothsayer priests, sorcerers, Chaldeans, and diviners.

"This was because an ^(C1)extraordinary spirit, knowledge and insight, interpretation of dreams, explanation of riddles, and solving of difficult problems were found in this Daniel, whom the king named ^(C2)Belteshazzar. Let Daniel now be summoned and he will declare the interpretation."