Daniel 13:12

4 translations of 93 that include the Old Testament

Clementine Vulgate 1598

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

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

ali su živo nastojali da je svaki dan vide.

bakazâg’igungêza ngasi lusiku amango bankarhinda kuli ye.

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Traditions differ. Both positions are 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.
587 BC–586 BC Fall of Jerusalem and the Babylonian exile Levant
Nebuchadnezzar II destroyed the temple and deported the Judean elite to Babylon.
563 BC–483 BC Life of Siddhartha Gautama India
The founder of Buddhism taught in the Ganges plain, roughly contemporary with the Judean exile.
551 BC–479 BC Life of Confucius China
Chinese philosopher whose teaching on ethics and governance shaped East Asian thought for millennia.
539 BC Cyrus takes Babylon Persia
The Persian conquest of Babylon, followed by the decree permitting exiled peoples to return home.
516 BC Second Temple completed Levant
The rebuilt temple in Jerusalem was finished under Persian authorisation.
508 BC–507 BC Athenian democracy established Greece
Cleisthenes' reforms created the classical Athenian democratic system.
499 BC–449 BC Greco-Persian wars Greece
Persia's attempts to subdue the Greek mainland failed at Marathon, Salamis and Plataea.