- "You looked, O king, and there before you stood a large statue--an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance.
- The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze,
- its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay.
- While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them.
- Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were broken to pieces at the same time and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.
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- "You, O king, were looking and behold, there was a single great statue; that statue, which was large and of extraordinary splendor, was standing in front of you, and its appearance was awesome.
- "The head of that statue was made of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze,
- its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.
- "You continued looking until a stone was cut out without hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and crushed them.
- "Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were crushed all at the same time and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that not a trace of them was found But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
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