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Daniel 1:16
Thus Melzar tooke away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drinke, and gaue them pulse.
Daniel 1:16 · Geneva Bible
Daniel 1:16 in other translations
Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse.
So the steward continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and he gave them vegetables instead.
So the steward took away their delicacies and the wine that they were given to drink, and gave them vegetables.
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In context
13 Then let our countenances bee looked vpon before thee, and the countenances of the children that eate of the portion of the Kings meate: and as thou seest, deale with thy seruantes.
14 So hee consented to them in this matter, an proued them ten dayes.
15 And at the end of ten dayes, their countenances appeared fayrer, and in better liking then all the childrens, which did eate the portion of the Kings meate.
16 Thus Melzar tooke away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drinke, and gaue them pulse.
17 As for these foure children, God gaue them knowledge, and vnderstanding in al learning and wisedome: also he gaue Daniel vnderstanding of all visions and dreames.
18 Nowe when the time was expired, that the King had appoynted to bring them in, the chiefe of the Eunuches brought them before Nebuchad-nezzar.
19 And the King communed with them: and among them al was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stoode they before the king.
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