And Darius the Mede received the kingdom {when he was about sixty-two years old}.

{It pleased Darius}, and he set up one hundred and twenty satraps over the kingdom, that they were {throughout the whole kingdom},

So the administrators and the satraps conspired {with respect to} the king and so they said to him, "Darius, O king, live {forever}!

{So} the king, Darius, signed the writing and the interdict.

Then Darius the king wrote to all the people, the nations, and the languages living in the whole earth, "May your prosperity become great!

So this Daniel prospered during the kingdom of Darius and during the kingdom of Cyrus the Persian.

In [the] first year [of] Darius, [the] son of Ahasuerus, from [the] offspring of [the] Medes, who became king over [the] kingdom of [the] Chaldeans--

"And I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, {I stood} as a support and as a protection for him.