Daniel 1:12 ““Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetabl…”

Daniel 1:12

“Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.

World English Bible

“Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat and water to drink.

American Standard Version

Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.

Geneva Bible 1599

Proue thy seruants, I beseeche thee, ten dayes, and let them giue vs pulse to eate, and water to drinke.

Darby Translation

Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink;

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;

Bible in Basic English

Put your servants to the test for ten days; let them give us grain for our food and water for our drink.

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Cross references

“pulse to eat”

Romans 14:2 Daniel 1:16 Deuteronomy 8:3 Genesis 1:29 Genesis 1:30

Romans 14:2 · BSB

For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables.

Daniel 1:16 · BSB

So the steward continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and he gave them vegetables instead.

Deuteronomy 8:3 · BSB

He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth o…

Genesis 1:29 · BSB

Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.

Genesis 1:30 · BSB

And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth—everything that has the breath of life in it—I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,

13Then 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.”

Read Daniel 1