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"You, O king, were looking and behold, there was a single great statue; that statue, which was large and ^[ao]of extraordinary splendor, was standing in front of you, and its appearance was ^(as)awesome.

The ^(at)head of that statue was made of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze,

its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.

You ^[ap]continued looking until a ^(au)stone was cut out ^(av)without hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and ^(aw)crushed them.

Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were crushed ^[aq]all at the same time and became ^(ax)like chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that ^(ay)not a trace of them was found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great ^(az)mountain and filled the whole earth.