Thus died Daniel, and for seven days the women sat apart upon the ground and mourned him, while the men embalmed his body and made it ready for burial.

They wrapped him in much fine linen and poured out very precious spices and ointments from the store-houses of the palaces.

Round about his body they burned frankincense and myrrh and amber, and the gums of the Indian benzoe and of the Persian fir, and great candles of pure wax; for all the seven days the mourners from the city made a great mourning, ceasing not to sing the praises of the prophet and to cry aloud by day and night that the best and the worthiest and the greatest of all men was dead.
Thus they watched and mourned, and sang his great deeds.

And in the lower chamber of the tower the women sat upon the floor, with Nehushta in their midst, and sorrowed greatly, fasting and mourning in raiment of sackcloth, and strewing ashes upon the floor and upon themselves.
Nehushta's face grew thin and very pale and her lips white in that time, and she let her heavy hair hang neglected about her.

Many of the men shaved their heads and went barefooted, and the fortress and the palaces were filled with the sound of weeping and grief.