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Belshazzar the king made a great festival for [a] thousand [of] his lords,[note: Or "nobles"] and {in the presence of}[note: Literally "to over against"] the thousand [lords] he was drinking wine.[note: Or "the wine"]
{When he tasted the wine},[note: Literally "At the taste of the wine"] Belshazzar commanded [that they] bring [the] vessels of gold and silver that Nebuchadnezzar his {predecessor}[note: Literally "father"] had taken from the temple that [was] in Jerusalem, so that the king and his lords,[note: Or "nobles"] his wives and his concubines may drink from them.