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• Daniel knew that the time had come. It was time for the Jews to return back to the land of Israel. If they wanted, that is. Many of the faithful ones would return. Others would now regard Babylon as their home, the land they had lived in for the past seventy years. The land many had grown up in. The land they had children in. The land in which they had married wives. Many never came back, and continued to speak Aramaic as they settled throughout the Babylonian empire.
• But some of the faithful ones did come back.