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Daniel 2:41 וְאֶצְבְּעָתָ֗א and toes the

And just as you saw that the feet and toes were made partly of fired clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom, yet some of the strength of iron will be in it—just as you saw the iron mixed with clay.

Daniel 2:42 וְאֶצְבְּעָת֙ and [the] toes of

And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle.

Daniel 5:5 אֶצְבְּעָן֙ fingers

At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,

Here: 'Fingers'. They are the first thing the narrator mentions, before any hand, as if the eye catches the fingers first. Readers of Scripture would recall 'the finger of God' that wrote the tablets of the covenant (Exod 31:18).