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When I raised my eyes, then I saw, and, look! a ram standing before the watercourse, and it had two
horns. And the two horns were tall, but the one was taller than the other, and the taller was the
one that came up afterward.
And I, for my part, kept on considering, and, look! there was a male of the goats coming from the
sunset upon the surface of the whole earth, and it was not touching the earth. And as regards the
he-goat, there was a conspicuous horn between its eyes.
And it kept coming all the way to the ram possessing the two horns, which I had seen standing
before the watercourse; and it came running toward it in its powerful rage.
And I saw it coming into close touch with the ram, and it began showing bitterness toward it,
and it proceeded to strike down the ram and to break its two horns, and there proved to be no
power in the ram to stand before it. So it threw it to the earth and trampled it down, and the
ram proved to have no deliverer out of its hand.
"The ram that you saw possessing the two horns [stands for] the kings of Media and Persia.
And the hairy he-goat [stands for] the king of Greece; and as for the great horn that was between
its eyes, it [stands for] the first king."
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