Daniel 1:12
“Proue thy seruants, I beseech thee, ten dayes, and let them giue pulse to eat, and water to drinke.”
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Daniel 1:12 Context
10And the Prince of the Eunuches said vnto Daniel, I feare my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat, and your drinke: for why should he see your faces worse liking then the children which are of your sort? then shall yee make mee indanger my head to the King. 11Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the Prince of the Eunuches had set ouer Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, 12Proue thy seruants, I beseech thee, ten dayes, and let them giue pulse to eat, and water to drinke. 13Then let our countenances be looked vpon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the Kings meate: and as thou seest, deale with thy seruants. 14So hee consented to them in this matter, and proued them ten dayes.
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Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
- King James Version
"Please test your servants for ten days, and let us be given some vegetables to eat and water to drink.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Put your servants to the test for ten days; let them give us grain for our food and water for our drink.
- Basic English Bible
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink;
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Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
- Webster's Bible
Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.
- World English Bible
`Try, I pray thee, thy servants, ten days; and they give to us of the vegetables, and we eat, and water, and we drink;
- Youngs Literal Bible
'Try thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
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