12Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.


In Context

9 Now God made Daniel to find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.

10 The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? so would you endanger my head with the king.

11 Then Daniel said to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:

12 Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.

13 Then let our faces be looked on before you, and the face of the youths who eat of the king's dainties; and as you see, deal with your servants.

14 So he listened to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.

Daniel 1:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:12Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:12"Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:12Try, I beseech thee, thy servants for ten days, and let pulse be given us to eat, and water to drink:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:12Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:12Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:12Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:12Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:12'Try, I pray thee, thy servants, ten days; and they give to us of the vegetables, and we eat, and water, and we drink;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:12Prove your servants, I beseech you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.