7 The king was calling out loudly to bring in the conjurers, the Chal·deʹans and the astrologers.+ The king was answering and saying to the wise men of Babylon: “Any man that will read this writing and show me its very interpretation, with purple he will be clothed,+ with a necklace of gold about his neck, and as the third one in the kingdom he will rule.”+

2 After Jesus had been born in Bethʹle·hem+ of Ju·deʹa in the days of Herod+ the king, look! astrologers*+ from eastern parts came to Jerusalem,