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Originally Posted by Contra_Mundum I never took the text that way. I have always supposed that the duration of this "special service for the king only" was a month of king-worship. | Ding! Give that man a cigar and give me a dunce cap. | I've always read the text like Bruce, but your question was actually interesting to read the text from a different perspective. But then like you say it can't really be reconciled with verse 12 if you read it from the perspective that Daniel should have spent 30 days in the lion's den.
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