1
When the king heard my words and the prayer which I uttered, he ordered me to be cast into the prison house until he had determined what to do with me.
2
And after ten days, the king gathered together all his counselors and rehearsed unto them all things concerning me.
3
And when he had rehearsed all things unto them, he asked them, saying, What judgment shall such an one receive who hath reviled the king and our gods and our holy order?
4
And they returned judgment unto him saying, The man who revileth the king should be hanged from a tree until he is dead and the tree then felled to the ground while all the people shall shout, Thus shall it befall him who revileth the king.
5
But this man hath not only reviled the king but also our gods and our holy order and according to our law such an one shall be cast into a furnace of fire until he be consumed that naught remain of him in the earth.
6
Let therefore the fire be increased in the king’s furnace which is in Casdim where the king's bricks are made and let this blasphemer be cast into the fire that he be consumed.