KJV King James Version
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
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Daniel 1:12
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
“Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.
WEB World English Bible
Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.
ASV American Standard Version
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘Try, I pray thee, thy servants, ten days; and they give to us of the vegetables, and we eat, and water, and we drink;
Surrounding context — Daniel 1
9 Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs.
10 And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which [are] of your sort? then shall ye make [me] endanger my head to the king.
11 Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
12 Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
13 Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king’s meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants.
14 So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
15 And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king’s meat.
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נַס־H5254 · na.sahto testנָ֥אH4994 · napleaseאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]עֲבָדֶ֖יךָH5650 · e.vedservant/slaveיָמִ֣יםH3117 · yomdayעֲשָׂרָ֑הH6235 · e.sertenוְיִתְּנוּ־H5414 · na.tanto give: giveלָ֜נוּH9035 · nuusמִן־H4480 · minfromהַזֵּרֹעִ֛יםH2235 · ze.ro.avegetableוְנֹאכְלָ֖הH398 · a.khalto eatוּמַ֥יִםH4325 · ma.yimwaterוְנִשְׁתֶּֽה׃H8354 · sha.tahto drink
Cross-references
Romans 14:2For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.Daniel 1:16Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse.Genesis 1:29-30And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.Deuteronomy 8:3And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every [word] that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
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