Daniel 1:12
Good News Translation
"Test us for ten days," he said. "Give us vegetables to eat and water to drink.

New Revised Standard Version
“Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.

Contemporary English Version
"For the next ten days, let us have only vegetables and water at mealtime.

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

pulse to eat.

Daniel 1:16 So Malasar took their portions, and the wine that they should drink: and he gave them pulse.

Genesis 1:29,30 And God said: Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed upon the earth, and all trees that have in themselves seed of their own kind, to be your meat: . . .

Deuteronomy 8:3 He afflicted thee with want, and gave thee manna for thy food, which neither thou nor thy fathers knew: to shew that not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.

Romans 14:2 For one believeth that he may eat all things: but he that is weak, let him eat herbs.

Context
Daniel's Faithfulness
11And Daniel said to Malasar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Ananias, Misael, and Azarias: 12Try, I beseech thee, thy servants for ten days, and let pulse be given us to eat, and water to drink:13And look upon our faces, and the faces of the children that eat of the king's meat: and as thou shalt see, deal with thy servants.…
Cross References
Revelation 2:10
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer. Behold, the devil will cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried: and you shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death: and I will give thee the crown of life.

Daniel 1:11
And Daniel said to Malasar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Ananias, Misael, and Azarias:

Daniel 1:13
And look upon our faces, and the faces of the children that eat of the king's meat: and as thou shalt see, deal with thy servants.

Daniel 1:16
So Malasar took their portions, and the wine that they should drink: and he gave them pulse.

Daniel 1:11
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