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With strength and confidence from Elohim, the writing begins: this is the revelation disclosed to Dani’el the prophet in the land of Paras and Elam.
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It concerns the end and completion of the inhabited world, the afflictions and griefs approaching humanity because violence and transgression multiplied in the land, and the fearful signs that accompany the culmination.
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In the reign of Daryavesh the Mede over Paras, and in the remembered reign of Alpachtan over Bavel, Dani’el says that he saw visions and afterward received the prophecy recorded here.
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The hearer is commanded to read with discernment. The superscription establishes the work as revelation, not as an eyewitness court chronicle from the historical Dani’el.