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Daniel 1:12
"Test your servants for ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.
Daniel 1:12 · New Heart English 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.
“Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables 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.
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In context
9 Now God gave Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.
10 The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, "I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? So would you endanger my head with the king."
11 Then said Daniel to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:
12 "Test your servants for ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.
13 Then let our faces be looked on before you, and the face of the youths who eat of the king's royal food; and as you see, deal with your servants."
14 So he listened to them in this matter, and tested them ten days.
15 At the end of ten days their faces appeared better and fatter than all the youths who ate of the king's royal food.
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