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In the first year of 1Belshazzar king of Babylon, 2Daniel saw a dream and 3visions of his head as he lay in his bed. Then he wrote down the dream and told the sum of the matter.
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Daniel declared,"I saw in my vision by night, and behold, 4the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea.
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And four great beasts 5came up out of the sea, different from one another.
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The first was like a lion and had eagles' wings. Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man, and the mind of a man was given to it.
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And behold, 6another beast, a second one, like a bear. It was raised up on one side. It had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and it was told, 'Arise, devour much flesh.'
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After this I looked, and behold, another, like a 7leopard, with four wings of a bird on its back. And the beast had four heads, and 8dominion was given to it.
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After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, 9terrifying and dreadful and exceedingly strong. It had great iron teeth; 10it devoured and broke in pieces 11and stamped what was left with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it, and 12it had ten horns.
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I considered the horns, and behold, 13there came up among them another horn, a little one, 14before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots. And behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and 15a mouth speaking great things.