Daniel 1:12

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.pulse: Heb. of pulseto eat…: Heb. that we may eat, etc

WEB

“Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us 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.

ASV

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

LSV

“Please try your servants [for] ten days; and they give to us from the vegetables and we eat, and water, and we drink;

YLT

'Try, I pray thee, thy servants, ten days; and they give to us of the vegetables, and we eat, and water, and we drink;

DBY

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

DRC

Try, I beseech thee, thy servants for ten days, and let pulse be given us to eat, and water to drink:

GNV

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

JPS

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

LXXE

Prove now thy servants ten days; and let them give us pulse, and let us eat, and let us drink water:

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Original-language editions

WLC

נַס־נָ֥א אֶת־עֲבָדֶ֖יךָ יָמִ֣ים עֲשָׂרָ֑ה וְיִתְּנוּ־לָ֜נוּ מִן־הַזֵּרֹעִ֛ים וְנֹאכְלָ֖ה וּמַ֥יִם וְנִשְׁתֶּֽה׃

LXX-Br

πείρασον δὴ τοὺς παῖδάς σου ἡμέρας δέκα, καὶ δότωσαν ἡμῖν ἀπὸ τῶν σπερμάτων, καὶ φαγώμεθα, καὶ ὕδωρ πιώμεθα,

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• Daniel and his friends in Babylon At Babylon's court, Daniel and his friends are trained and given new names, but Daniel refuses the king's food and wine as defiling, though …

Cross-references most cited first

• Romans 14:2For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables.
• Genesis 1:29–30Then 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. And to every beast of the earth and every bird of…
• Deuteronomy 8:3He 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…
• Daniel 1:16So the steward continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and he gave them vegetables instead.

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