◄ Daniel 8:5 ►
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Good News Translation
While I was wondering what this meant, a goat came rushing out of the west, moving so fast that his feet didn't touch the ground. He had one prominent horn between his eyes.

New Revised Standard Version
As I was watching, a male goat appeared from the west, coming across the face of the whole earth without touching the ground. The goat had a horn between its eyes.

Contemporary English Version
I kept on watching and saw a goat come from the west and charge across the entire earth, without even touching the ground. Between his eyes was a powerful horn,

New American Bible
As I was reflecting, a he-goat with a prominent horn on its forehead suddenly came from the west across the whole earth without touching the ground.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I understood: and behold a he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and he touched not the ground, and the he goat had a notable horn between his eyes.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I understood: and behold a he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and he touched not the ground, and the he goat had a notable horn between his eyes.

an he-goat.

Daniel 8:21 And the he goat, is the king of the Greeks, and the great horn that was between his eyes, the same is the first king.

Daniel 2:32,39 The head of this statue was of fine gold, but the breast and the arms of silver, and the belly and the thighs of brass. . . .

Daniel 7:6 After this I beheld, and lo, another like a leopard, and it had upon it four wings, as of a fowl, and the beast had four heads, and power was given to it.

touched not the ground.

Daniel 8:21 And the he goat, is the king of the Greeks, and the great horn that was between his eyes, the same is the first king.

Daniel 11:3 But there shall rise up a strong king, and shall rule with great power: and he shall do what he pleaseth.

Context
Daniel's Vision of the Ram and the Goat
…4I saw the ram pushing with his horns against the west, and against the north, and against the south: and no beasts could withstand him, nor be delivered out of his hand: and he did according to his own will, and became great. 5And I understood: and behold a he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and he touched not the ground, and the he goat had a notable horn between his eyes.6And he went up to the ram that had the horns, which I had seen standing before the gate, and he ran towards him in the force of his strength.…
Cross References
Daniel 8:6
And he went up to the ram that had the horns, which I had seen standing before the gate, and he ran towards him in the force of his strength.

Daniel 8:8
And the he goat became exceeding great: and when he was grown, the great horn was broken, and there came up four horns under it towards the four winds of heaven.

Daniel 8:21
And the he goat, is the king of the Greeks, and the great horn that was between his eyes, the same is the first king.

Daniel 11:3
But there shall rise up a strong king, and shall rule with great power: and he shall do what he pleaseth.

Daniel 8:4
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