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Then they approached and ^(t)spoke before the king about the king's injunction, "Did you not sign an injunction that any man who makes a petition to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, is to be cast into the lions' den?" The king replied, "The statement is true, according to the ^(u)law of the Medes and Persians, which ^[j]may not be revoked."

Then these men came ^[l]by agreement to the king and said to the king, "Recognize, O king, that it is a ^(y)law of the Medes and Persians that no injunction or statute which the king establishes may be changed."