Abednego-Dietary Experiment of*
Daniel 1:8-21| New World Translation© |
| Daniel 1 |
| (8-21) But Daniel determined in his heart that he would not pollute himself with the delicacies of the king and with his drinking wine. And he kept requesting of the principal court official that he might not pollute himself. 9Accordingly the [true] God gave Daniel over to loving-kindness and to mercy before the principal court official. 10So the principal court official said to Daniel: “I am in fear of my lord the king, who has appointed YOUR food and YOUR drink. Why, then, should he see YOUR faces dejected-looking in comparison with the children who are of the same age as YOURS, and [why] should YOU have to make my head guilty to the king?” 11But Daniel said to the guardian whom the principal court official had appointed over Daniel, Han·a·ni´ah, Mish´a·el and Az·a·ri´ah: 12“Please, put your servants to the test for ten days, and let them give us some vegetables that we may eat and water that we may drink; 13and let our countenances and the countenance of the children who are eating the delicacies of the king appear before you, and according to what you see do with your servants.” 14Finally he listened to them as regards this matter and put them to the test for ten days. 15And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared better and fatter in flesh than all the children who were eating the delicacies of the king. 16So the guardian kept on taking away their delicacies and their drinking wine and giving them vegetables. 17And as for these children, the four of them, to them the [true] God gave knowledge and insight in all writing and wisdom; and Daniel himself had understanding in all sorts of visions and dreams. 18And at the end of the days that the king had said to bring them in, the principal court official also proceeded to bring them in before Neb·u·chad·nez´zar. 19And the king began to speak with them, and out of them all no one was found like Daniel, Han·a·ni´ah, Mish´a·el and Az·a·ri´ah; and they continued to stand before the king. 20And as regards every matter of wisdom [and] understanding that the king inquired about from them, he even got to find them ten times better than all the magic-practicing priests [and] the conjurers that were in all his royal realm. 21And Daniel continued on until the first year of Cyrus the king. |
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