1 "In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes (a Mede by descent), who was made ruler over the Babylonian kingdom --

2 "in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the scriptures, according to the word of Yahveh given to YermiYahv the prophet, that the accomplishment of the desolation of Yaravsalem would last seventy years."