7. So these ministers and satraps stormed in to the king and said to him, “King Darius, live forever!
8. All the ministers of the kingdom, the prefects, satraps, counselors, and governors agree that the following prohibition ought to be put in force by royal decree: for thirty days, whoever makes a petition to anyone, divine or human, except to you, O king, shall be thrown into a den of lions.
9. Now, O king, let the prohibition be issued over your signature, immutable and irrevocable according to the law of the Medes and Persians.”
10. So King Darius signed the prohibition into law.