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Daniel 1:12
“Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.
Daniel 1:12 · Berean Standard Bible
Daniel 1:12 in other translations
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
“Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat and water to drink.
"Test your servants for ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.
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In context
9 Now God had granted Daniel favor and compassion from the chief official,
10 but he said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has assigned your food and drink. For why should he see your faces looking thinner than those of the other young men your age? You would endanger my head before the king!”
11 Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
12 “Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.
13 Then compare our appearances with those of the young men who are eating the royal food, and deal with your servants according to what you see.”
14 So he consented to this and tested them for ten days.
15 And at the end of ten days, they looked healthier and better nourished than all the young men who were eating the king’s food.
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