Daniel 13:12

4 translations of 93 that include the Old Testament

Douay-Rheims 1899

And they watched carefully every day to see her. And one said to the other:

ali su živo nastojali da je svaki dan vide.

Et observabant quotidie sollicitius videre eam. Dixitque alter ad alterum:

bakazâg’igungêza ngasi lusiku amango bankarhinda kuli ye.

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Traditions differ. Each position is shown rather than one asserted as settled.

Traditional: 605 BC–536 BC Daniel
Set in the Babylonian and Persian courts and traditionally written there.
Critical: 167 BC–164 BC Anonymous
The detailed accuracy of the book about the 2nd-century Seleucid crisis, and its vaguer treatment of earlier Babylonian history, leads most critical scholars to date it to the Maccabean revolt.

Events overlapping when this passage is dated (605 BC–164 BC).

1200 BC–400 BC Olmec civilisation Mesoamerica
The earliest major Mesoamerican civilisation, known for colossal stone heads and an early calendar.
1200 BC–600 BC Zoroaster teaches in Persia Persia
Founder of Zoroastrianism, whose dating is disputed by as much as six centuries. His teaching on a cosmic struggle between good and evil later touched Jewish and Christian thought.
1070 BC–350 AD The kingdom of Kush Africa
A Nubian power on the upper Nile that ruled Egypt itself as its twenty-fifth dynasty.
624 BC–546 BC Greek philosophy begins at Miletus Greece
Thales sought natural rather than mythic explanations, the beginning of Greek science.
620 BC–560 BC Coinage invented in Lydia Anatolia
Stamped electrum coins of guaranteed weight, an idea that spread across the ancient world within a century.
600 BC–500 BC Daoism takes shape in China China
The teaching associated with Laozi, emphasising harmony with the natural order.
599 BC–527 BC Mahavira and the rise of Jainism India
A contemporary of the Buddha whose teaching centred on non-violence toward every living thing.
587 BC–586 BC Fall of Jerusalem and the Babylonian exile Levant
Nebuchadnezzar II destroyed the temple and deported the Judean elite to Babylon.