2and the king saith to call for scribes, and for enchanters, and for sorcerers, and for Chaldeans, to declare to the king his dreams. And they come in and stand before the king;
3and the king saith to them, `A dream I have dreamed, and moved is my spirit to know the dream.`
4And the Chaldeans speak to the king [in] Aramaean, `O king, to the ages live, tell the dream to thy servants, and the interpretation we do shew.`
5The king hath answered and said to the Chaldeans, `The thing from me is gone; if ye do not cause me to know the dream and its interpretation, pieces ye are made, and your houses are made dunghills;
6and if the dream and its interpretation ye do shew, gifts, and fee, and great glory ye receive from before me, therefore the dream and its interpretation shew ye me.`
7They have answered a second time, and are saying, `Let the king tell the dream to his servants, and the interpretation we do shew.
8The king hath answered and said, `Of a truth I know that time ye are gaining, because that ye have seen that the thing is gone from me,
