Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let your gifts be for yourself, and give your rewards to another; yet I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.
That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelace, and that I will not take anything that is yours, so that you would not say, I have made Abram rich:
And Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? go to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother. And the king of Israel said to him, Nay: for the LORD has called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.
And he said to him, Did not my heart go with you, when the man turned back from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?
But if you show the dream, and the interpretation thereof, you shall receive from me gifts and rewards and great honor: therefore show me the dream, and the interpretation thereof.
Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold around his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.