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His body resembled yellow jasper,[a] and his face had an appearance like lightning. His eyes were like blazing torches;[b] his arms and feet had the gleam of polished bronze. His voice[c] thundered forth like the sound of a large crowd.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 10:6 tn The Hebrew word translated “yellow jasper” is תַּרשִׁישׁ (tarshish); it appears to be a semiprecious stone, but its exact identity is somewhat uncertain. It may be the yellow jasper, although this is conjectural (cf. NAB, NIV “chrysolite”; NASB, NRSV “beryl”).
  2. Daniel 10:6 tn Heb “torches of fire.”
  3. Daniel 10:6 tn Heb “The sound of his words” (cf. v. 9).

His body was like topaz,(A) his face like lightning,(B) his eyes like flaming torches,(C) his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze,(D) and his voice(E) like the sound of a multitude.

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