Daniel 2:16
Good News Translation
Daniel went at once and obtained royal permission for more time, so that he could tell the king what the dream meant.

New Revised Standard Version
So Daniel went in and requested that the king give him time and he would tell the king the interpretation.

Contemporary English Version
Daniel rushed off and said to the king, "If you will just give me some time, I'll explain your dream."

New American Bible
Daniel went and asked for time from the king, that he might give him the interpretation.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Daniel went in, and desired of the king, that he would give him time to resolve the question, and declare it to the king.

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Daniel went in, and desired of the king, that he would give him time to resolve the question, and declare it to the king.

and desired.

Daniel 2:9-11 If, therefore, you tell me not the dream, there is one sentence concerning you, that you have also framed a lying interpretation, and full of deceit, to speak before me till the time pass away. Tell me, therefore, the dream, that I may know that you also give a true interpretation thereof. . . .

Daniel 1:18,19 And when the days were ended, after which the king had ordered they should be brought in: the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nabuchodonosor. . . .

Context
The Dream Revealed to Daniel
15And he asked him that had received the orders of the king, why so cruel a sentence was gone forth from the face of the king. And when Arioch had told the matter to Daniel, 16Daniel went in, and desired of the king, that he would give him time to resolve the question, and declare it to the king.17And he went into his house, and told the matter to Ananias, and Misael, and Azarias, his companions:…
Cross References
Daniel 2:15
And he asked him that had received the orders of the king, why so cruel a sentence was gone forth from the face of the king. And when Arioch had told the matter to Daniel,

Daniel 2:17
And he went into his house, and told the matter to Ananias, and Misael, and Azarias, his companions:

Daniel 2:15
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