25. “Now this was the writing that was inscribed: ‘Mene, Mene, Tekel and Parsin.’
26. “This is the explanation of the matter: ‘Mene’—God has numbered your kingdom and brought an end to it.
27. “ ‘Tekel’—you have been weighed on scales and you have been found wanting.
28. “ ‘Peres’—your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.’ ”
29. Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple and placed a necklace of gold around his neck, and they made a proclamation concerning him that he would be the third ruler in authority in the kingdom.
30. That same night Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was killed.
31. And Darius the Mede received the kingdom when he was about sixty-two years old.