PERES means that your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians—translating the final term (with wordplay on PHARSIN, meaning 'divided') to indicate the empire's fragmentation and transfer to the successor Medo-Persian power. The division represents both political partition and the distribution of power to rivals. The mention of Medes and Persians identifies the historical power that would conquer Babylon.

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