12 “Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink. 13 Then 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.” 14 So he consented to this and tested them for ten days.
Daniel 1:12–14
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Greek Daniel 1:11–13
11 Then Daniel said to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: (WEB) 12 “Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat and water to drink. (WEB) 13 Then let our faces be examined before… (WEB)
Greek Daniel 1:15–17
15 At the end of ten days, their faces appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths who ate of the king’s delicacies. (WEB) 16 So the steward took away their delicacies, and the wine that they would drink, and gave them vegetables. (WEB) 17 Now as for these f… (WEB)
1 Kings 22:26–28
26 And the king of Israel declared, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king’s son, 27 and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’” 28 But Mic…
2 Chronicles 18:25–27
25 And the king of Israel declared, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king’s son, 26 and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’” 27 But Mic…
Daniel 1:7–9
7 The chief official gave them new names: To Daniel he gave the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego. 8 But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or wine. So he asked the ch…
2 Esdras 9:22–24
22 Let the multitude perish then, which were born in vain. Let my grape be saved, and my plant, for I have made them perfect with great labor. (WEB) 23 Nevertheless, if you will wait seven more days—however don’t fast in them, (WEB) 24 but go into a field of flowers, where no house… (WEB)
Greek Daniel 1:4–6
4 youths in whom was no defect, but well-favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and endowed with knowledge, and understanding science, and who had the ability to serve in the king’s palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the language of the Chalde… (WEB)
Greek Daniel 13:50–52
50 Therefore all the people turned again in haste, and the elders said to him, “Come, sit down among us, and show it to us, seeing God has given you the honor of an elder.” (WEB) 51 Then Daniel said to them, “Put them far apart from each another, and I will examine them.” (WEB) 52 … (WEB)
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