7 All the high officials of the kingdom, ^tthe prefects and the satraps, the counselors and the governors are agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce an injunction, that whoever makes petition to any god or man for thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions. 8 Now, O king, establish the injunction and sign the document, ^uso that it cannot be changed, according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, which cannot be revoked.”

9 Therefore King Darius signed the document and injunction.