ask <DAN6 -:7 > All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors,

and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted

together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree,

that whosoever shall {ask} a petition of any God or man for thirty

days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

ask <DAN6 -:12 > Then they came near, and spake before the king

concerning the king's decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that

every man that shall {ask} [a petition] of any God or man within

thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of

lions? The king answered and said, The thing [is] true, according to

the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.

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