in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years whereof the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.
in þe firste yeer of his rewme, Y, Danyel, vndurstood in bookis þe noumbre of yeeris, of which noumbre þe word of þe Lord was maad to Jeremye, þe profete, þat seuenti yeer of desolacioun of Jerusalem schulde be fillid.