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Daniel recalls the decree to cut down the tree and preserve its stump.
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Daniel 4:20

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The king brought low · Daniel 4

Story guide: Daniel recounts the watcher’s command to cut the tree but preserve its stump.

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20And because the king saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, with a band of iron and bronze, in the grass of the field, and let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field until seven times pass over him’—

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