Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.
Parallel translations
- KJV Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
- BSB “Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.
- NKJV “Please test your servants for ten days, and let them give us vegetables to eat and water to drink.
- NASB “Please put your servants to the test for ten days, and let us be given some vegetables to eat and water to drink.
- NLT “Please test us for ten days on a diet of vegetables and water,” Daniel said.
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Cross-references · 4
- Rom 14:2One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.
- Dan 1:16So the steward took away their dainties, and the wine that they should drink, and gave them pulse.
- Gen 1:29–30God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
- Deut 8:3He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.
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