Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
“Please test your servants for ten days, and let us be
King James Version
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
Holman Bible
“Please test your servants for 10 days. Let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.
International Standard Version
"Please test your servants for ten days and let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.
A Conservative Version
Test thy servants, I beseech thee, 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.
Amplified
“Please, test your servants for ten days, and let us be given some vegetables to eat and water to 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.
Darby Translation
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink;
Julia Smith Translation
Prove now thy servants, ten days; and they shall give to us from seed herbs, and we will eat, and water, and we will drink.
King James 2000
Test your servants, I beseech you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Please test your servants [for] ten days, and let them give us {some of the vegetables}, and let us eat and let us drink water.
Modern King James verseion
I beg you, try your servants ten days. And let them give us vegetables to eat and water to drink.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"O prove but ten days with thy servants, and let us have pottage to eat, and water to drink:
NET Bible
"Please test your servants for ten days by providing us with some vegetables to eat and water to drink.
New Heart English Bible
"Test your servants for ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.
The Emphasized Bible
I pray thee - prove thy servants, ten days, - and let them give us vegetable food, that we may eat, and water that we may drink:
Webster
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.
Youngs 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;
Themes
Abed-nego » Also called azariah » A jewish captive in babylon
Abstemiousness » Instances of » Daniel and his hebrew companions
Total abstinence » Instances of » Daniel
Daniel » Jewish captive » Abstinence of
Government » Civil service school provided by
Integrity » Instances of » Daniel, in his abstemiousness (i. E. Abstinent)
Knowledge » Who God gives knowledge to
Melzar » The steward whom the prince of the eunuchs set over daniel and the three hebrew young men
Prudence » Instances of » Daniel
Self-denial » Exemplified » Daniel
Topics
Interlinear
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Yowm
Nathan
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Daniel 1:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Daniel's Resolve
11
Then Daniel said to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
12 “Please test your servants for ten days, and let us be
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Daniel 1:16
Thus Melzar took the portion of their food and the wine that they should drink and gave them vegetables.
Genesis 1:29-30
And God said, Behold, I have given you every grass bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food.
Deuteronomy 8:3
And he afflicted thee and caused thee to hunger and sustained thee with manna, food of which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know, that he might make thee know that man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD shall man live.
Romans 14:2
For one believes that he may eat all things; another, who is sick, eats vegetables.