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Then these commissioners and satraps came ^(F1)by agreement to the king and spoke to him as follows: "King Darius, ^(C1)live forever!

"All the ^(C1)commissioners of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, have ^(C2)consulted together that the king should establish a statute and enforce an injunction that anyone who offers a prayer to any god or person besides you, O king, for thirty days, shall ^(C3)be thrown into the lions' ^(F1)den.

"Now, O king, ^(C1)establish the injunction and sign the document so that it will not be changed, according to the ^(C2)law of the Medes and Persians, which ^(F1)may not be revoked."

Thereupon, King Darius ^(C1)signed the document, that is, the injunction.